Month: September 2018

ABC News(NEW BERN, N.C.) — Hurricane Florence pummeled North Carolina, making landfall Friday morning with storm surges and wind gusts before contributing to at least five deaths. Authorities have confirmed those storm-related deaths, including a [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — U.S. businesses ranging from Tesla to Amazon to breweries both large and small have stepped in to offer help to victims of Hurricane Florence. Anheuser-Busch is sending more than 300,000 cans of [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A legislative administrator says it cost roughly $35,000 to hold this week’s special session on sales taxes for online purchases. Legislative Research Council Director Jason Hancock said Friday that legislator pay [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) —  A 10-year-old boy in Kansas left the hospital happy and healthy on Wednesday night after being attacked by wasps in his tree house, falling out and landing face first onto a meat [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW BERN, N.C.) —  Hurricane Florence pummeled North Carolina, making landfall Friday morning with storm surges and wind gusts before contributing to at least four deaths. Authorities have confirmed those storm-related deaths, including a [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW BERN, N.C.) — As Hurricane Florence hammers North Carolina’s coastline with relentless rain and wind, first responders are scrambling to rescue residents who didn’t heed evacuation orders and are now stranded in their homes, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) — An attorney for the family of the 26-year-old man shot and killed inside of his own apartment by a Dallas police officer is calling for her to be fired immediately. Botham Jean was [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A New Jersey woman who survived Superstorm Sandy and received help from strangers is calling on people to step up and return the favor to the people in the Carolinas [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW BERN, N.C.) — Hurricane Florence is pummeling North Carolina, making landfall with life-threatening storm surges and wind gusts. Authorities have confirmed three storm-related deaths, including a mother and her infant who died after [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — A mother has hunkered down with her five children and dog in their Wilmington, North Carolina, home as Hurricane Florence bears down. Melissa Cellucci, who lives 20 minutes from Wrightsville [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW BERN, N.C.) — Hurricane Florence is pummeling North Carolina, making landfall with life-threatening storm surges and wind gusts. The storm hit Wilmington, North Carolina, Friday morning with a 105 mph wind gust, the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SEOUL) — South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, is expected to fly to Pyongyang for the first time next week in hopes of accelerating international efforts to denuclearize North Korea. “At this stage, I believe it [Read More…]

KTRK-TV(NEW BERN, N.C.) — The Cajun Navy came to the aid of nearly 160 people in North Carolina Friday morning, many of whom had to be rescued from the roofs of their cars after they [Read More…]