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Category 2 Hurricane Dorian Pounds Carolinas
Hurricane Dorian was pounding much of the Carolina coast with heavy rain and strong winds Thursday, spawning small tornadoes and causing widespread power losses and flooding.
Hurricane Dorian Prompts Warnings of 8-Foot Storm Surge in Carolinas
Much of the Carolina coast was being pounded by heavy rain and strong winds from the outer bands of Hurricane Dorian on Thursday, as the storm continued to creep on its parallel path north along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
After ICE Raids, the Parking Lot Was Crowded, but No One Was There to Work
MORTON, Miss. — From a distance Friday morning, the parking lot of PH Food could have been hosting a flea market. Scores of vehicles were haphazardly parked, and a throng of people milled around. A woman sold tacos al pastor and tacos de asada from the back of a food truck.
Atlanta ex-official faces rare criminal charges under open records law
He was the kind of politician who punched back when he felt punched. He was well known for blocking reporters on Twitter, and his office regularly criticized journalists by name and issued news releases that vigorously pushed back against negative coverage.
How New Orleans celebrates its dead
The jazz funeral dates to the late 1800s and the birth of jazz itself. Like Chase’s Creole cuisine, the ritual has survived by embracing both tradition and change.
Historians: The last known slave ship has been found
The find, historians said, revives a story of unspeakable cruelty but also the story of a people who somehow survived this indignity and many others like it.
Historians: The last known slave ship has been found
The last voyage of the Clotilda, from Benin to Mobile Bay “represented one of the darkest eras of modern history,” Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, the commission’s executive director, said in a statement.
3 black churches have burned in 10 days in a single Louisiana parish
ATLANTA — Three historically black churches have burned in less than two weeks in one south Louisiana parish, where officials said they had found “suspicious elements” in each case. The officials have not ruled out the possibility of arson, or the possibility that the fires are related.
In 2020 Southern primaries, victory for Democrats begins with black women
ATLANTA — One presidential candidate was a black female senator from California, speaking with subdued precision and being received like distant kin at what used to be the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s church in Atlanta.
In 2020 Southern Primaries, Victory for Democrats Begins with Black Women
ATLANTA — One presidential candidate was a black female senator from California, speaking with subdued precision and being received like distant kin at what used to be the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s church in Atlanta.
Durham dreamed of a transit line, Duke University all but killed it
DURHAM, N.C. — Political leaders in one of the most progressive parts of the South have dreamed for two decades about an ambitious plan for a transit line connecting Durham, the home of Duke University, with nearby Chapel Hill. Funds were pledged and renderings were drawn.
Durham Dreamed of a Transit Line. Duke University All but Killed It.
DURHAM, N.C. — Political leaders in one of the most progressive parts of the South have dreamed for two decades about an ambitious plan for a transit line connecting Durham, the home of Duke University, with nearby Chapel Hill. Funds were pledged and renderings were drawn.
Durham dreamed of a transit line, Duke University all but killed it
DURHAM, N.C. — Political leaders in one of the most progressive parts of the South have dreamed for two decades about an ambitious plan for a transit line connecting Durham, the home of Duke University, with nearby Chapel Hill. Funds were pledged and renderings were drawn.
A Black Group Says Mardi Gras Blackface Honors Tradition. Others Call It 'Disgusting.'
NEW ORLEANS — F. Brobson Lutz Jr. is one of those prominent Southern white men who once made a public appearance in blackface. It was at a big Mardi Gras parade years ago, and he knows there is photographic evidence.
Officer faces no charges in fatal shooting in an Alabama mall
In a 24-page report, Attorney General Steve Marshall concluded that the Hoover police officer — identified only as Officer 1 — who shot Bradford had “reasonably exercised” his duties.
Officer Faces No Charges in Fatal Shooting at Alabama Mall
An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general’s office said Tuesday.Man plotting to attack White House is arrested in Georgia, authorities say
Investigators monitored the man for months, and then arrested him when he tried to buy weapons from an undercover FBI employee posing as a dealer, according to an FBI affidavit.
North Carolina Election Contractor Was Investigated for Possible Fraud in 2016 Race
In early 2018, officials at North Carolina’s elections board were worried about the integrity of the coming midterm elections in rural Bladen County — particularly because of the possibility that a political operative named L. McCrae Dowless Jr. might run a worrisome absentee-ballot program similar to one they had seen him run there two years earlier.
At Place for a Friendly Beer, a 'Despicable' Divide
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Though the Charleston Rifle Club was founded in 1855 to promote good marksmanship, it is better known today for a more prosaic pastime, bowling. And though the sign out front, with its lion-flanked escutcheon and Gothic lettering, gives off a whiff of high society, the club’s membership spans classes, embracing socialites and police officers, lawyers and factory workers.
