Monday, April 24, 2017

Flood Watch issued for central NC as rain persists and other top stories.

  • Flood Watch issued for central NC as rain persists

    Flood Watch issued for central NC as rain persists
    Weather Flood Advisory issued for Wake, Durham counties Posted 5:41 a.m. todayUpdated 5 minutes ago More on this 5 Images Slow down! A look at wet roads in the Triangle Live DUALDoppler5000 Raleigh, N.C. — The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Advisory for Wake, Durham, Orange and other nearby counties until 1 p.m. on Monday. Located right in the middle of a stormy, rainy three-day p..
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  • Obama Steps Back Into Public Life, Trying to Avoid One Word: Trump

    Obama Steps Back Into Public Life, Trying to Avoid One Word: Trump
    Photo President Barack Obama in 2016 in Tampa, Fla. On Monday, Mr. Obama will begin a series of public appearances in the United States and Europe. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama will return to his adopted home on Monday for his first public event since leaving the White House, holding a conversation with six young people in front of an audience at the University of Chicago.Mr. Obama has spent the three months since Inaug..
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  • New Orleans begins controversial removal of Confederate monuments

    New Orleans begins controversial removal of Confederate monuments
    Police snipers were positioned on nearby rooftops, according to The Times-Picayune newspaper, and the trucks and equipment used in the operation had company names covered by cardboard and black tape.The controversial removal was the first of four scheduled relocations of Confederate memorials in the city, despite weeks of opposition from pro-monument groups and threats against workers. It came as some Southern states celebrated Confederate Memorial Day, although Louisiana is not among them. Stat..
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  • Victim's family on Arkansas execution: 'Ready for it to be done'

    Victim's family on Arkansas execution: 'Ready for it to be done'
    She believes that after Jack Harold Jones is put to death, a feeling of anticipation among her family members may likely give way to a mixture of relief and sadness over a loved one lost.Jack Harold Jones -- no relation to Darla Jones -- was convicted of rape and murder in 1996 for the death of Mary Phillips, 34, a year earlier in Bald Knob, Arkansas. Jones' pending death will bring closure for the family of Mary Phillips. They have trudged to clemency hearings over the years, crying and pleadin..
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  • National Treasure: U.S. Declaration of Independence discovered in U.K. - WAVY

    National Treasure: U.S. Declaration of Independence discovered in U.K. - WAVY
    NEW YORK (NBC) — Two Harvard researchers have uncovered a more than 200-year-old parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence — sitting in a record office in Britain. Researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen, who have dated the document to the 1780s, said that it was discovered inside the West Sussex Record Office, in Chichester, England. The original 1776 copy has been housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., alongside the Constitution and Bill of Rights, since 1952. Sneff a..
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  • Can Bernie Sanders Save the Democratic Party?

    Can Bernie Sanders Save the Democratic Party?
    MESA, Arizona — Is this what unity looks like? Maybe. The reviews of the Democratic National Committee's national "unity tour" with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Chairman Tom Perez have been mostly negative. The Republican National Committee flooded reporters' inboxes with bad headlines from the past week and even the liberal New Republic declared the effort "failed." There was plenty of grist for the critics: Boos for Perez; blowback from pro-choice groups for Sanders; and even, as if proving t..
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  • NYC house fire kills 5, including children

    NYC house fire kills 5, including children
    New York Fire Department personnel stand outside the scene of a deadly fire Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Queens Village in New York that killed multiple people, including children. The fire broke out Sunday afternoon on a street full of single-family ...
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  • Trump pushes wall funding in spending dispute with Democrats

    Trump pushes wall funding in spending dispute with Democrats
    WASHINGTON — With a budget deadline looming, President Donald Trump plans a whirlwind of activities seeking to highlight accomplishments while putting fresh pressure on congressional Democrats to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, even if that pressure risks a possible government shutdown. Trump approaches the symbolic 100-day mark for his administration this coming week juggling a renewed health care push and his demands that a must-pass government funding bill should include money for ..
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  • March for Science reflects awakening of civic consciousness

    March for Science reflects awakening of civic consciousness
    The timing was striking. On Friday afternoon, for no apparent reason, the Trump administration asked U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to resign. This was not a case in which Obama-era officials are replaced with new political appointees after an election; the surgeon general serves a four-year term, and Murthy still had roughly two years remaining.Why would Donald Trump dismiss an accomplished and successful physician without explanation? Perhaps because the president lacks a meaningful apprec..
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  • Lube, Cialis & $4500Inside a Teachers Alleged Kidnapping of a 15-Year-Old

    Lube, Cialis & $4500Inside a Teachers Alleged Kidnapping of a 15-Year-Old
    Police have revealed a scandalous web of plans Tennessee high school teacher Tad Cummins allegedly had for his 15-year-old student.Before he allegedly kidnapped a 15-year-old student, former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins was under police investigation for his relationship with the girl, a new criminal complaint reveals.Cummins, 50, was arrested Thursday in Siskiyou County, California, nearly 2,500 miles from the Tennessee town where he allegedly kidnapped 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas on March 13..
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