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Via: WRAL.com Last night we dodged a major bullet in North Carolina.  Hurricane-Earl dropped from a Cat-4 storm to a Cat-2 before brushing the Outer Banks… The National Hurricane Center expects Earl to remain a large hurricane as it approaches New England… Hope you didn’t cancel your weekend plans. All beaches are open from the […]

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Via: WRAL.com State Officials will meet again this morning to determine if mandatory evacuations should be issued for areas north of the Oregon Inlet, including Kill Devils Hills… Yesterday (gov)Bev Perdue declared a state of emergency and warned people along the coast to be prepared…  Earl’s first encounter with the U.S. mainland should come around […]

The NWS just issued new advisories for the east coast. They’ve upgraded the watches in NC/Virginia to warnings and have extended the watch north to Maryland and just south of Jersey. Here’s a link to the new advisory: And here’s one to the map:

Yesterday A fight between two students at Westlake Middle School in Apex ended with a girl being tased… Police say they tried to break up the fight themselves at first, but the girl wouldn’t let go and they taser’d the little girl… Some parents are a little upset about the incident… Police say if the […]

A HURRICANE WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES FROM NORTH OF SURF CITY NORTH CAROLINA TO THE NORTH CAROLINA/VIRGINIA BORDER…INCLUDING THE PAMLICO AND ALBEMARLE SOUNDS. A TROPICAL STORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM CAPE FEAR NORTH CAROLINA NORTHEASTWARD TO SURF CITY. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT… A […]

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Via: Wral.com Police said a woman pulled into the BP and went inside and by the time she came back to car, a man had climbed into her car’s driver seat. So she did what I would do if Icaught somebody stealing my ride, she grabbed the door and tried to stop him as he drove off… […]

Via: WRAL.com Today emergency planners and hardware stores along North Carolina’s coast planned for Hurricane Earl in hopes that it will deliver no more than a glancing blow as it travels north. One very likely potential track has the storm moving toward the North Carolina coast before turning to the northeast and moving roughly parallel […]

The Source Magazine will come to the Raleigh-Durham area to give artists the opportunity to showcase their talent to the world.

Quality teachers in the classroom There should be more investment in good teachers, says Sarah Wessling, who received the National Teacher of the Year award from President Obama in April. Wessling, who teaches high school English in Iowa, is known for keeping her classroom exciting. Instead of having her students write traditional papers for homework, […]