Tropical Storm Gabrielle began to shower North Carolina’s Outer Banks with rain and batter them with high winds Sunday as the storm slogged slowly toward the coast. Forecasters expected the storm to increase its wind speed slightly – though not …
For more than 200 years, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse has guided sailors through the “graveyard of the Atlantic” — the shallow shores of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. But not even the nation’s tallest lighthouse is safe from the merciless grind …
Gov. Mike Easley said he is comfortable the state could respond to a major hurricane strike, even though he has complained often that the demands of the Iraq War has left the North Carolina National Guard stretched too thin. “We …
The up-and-coming hurricane researchers who accurately predicted a mild 2006 storm season, despite dire predictions of more established forecasters, said the 2007 season will be much more active — especially in the Gulf of Mexico. Two teams of researchers at …
Years after it was filed, a sexual harassment lawsuit against the University of North Carolina women’s soccer coach has regained momentum as a former player challenges how harassment and the culture of college athletics could violate Title IX. In that …
Police increased their patrols of churches across the city after fires broke out at two Baptist churches during the night and a break-in was discovered at a third — all within an hour. “We’re going to be highly visible at …
Apex’s fire chief told a North Carolina state task force this week that he was prepared to lose an entire city block when a chemical fire ignited an industrial waste recycling plant earlier this month because he didn’t know what …
