Hurricane Earl's winds and driving rains churned over the North Carolina in the dark of night, leaving residents and officials to wait for daybreak to assess the damage.
General rule of thumb: when looking to buy marijuana, don't text the sheriff. Authorities said a Helena teen sent out a text message last week in search of pot, but instead of contacting the drug dealer, he hit a wrong number and inadvertently sent the message to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton.
A 70-year-old scientist sparked a bomb scare at Miami airport Thursday evening when screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, a government official said.
Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a woman walked up to her with a cup and said: "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"
Public education and standardized testing lead to a standardized citizenry of thoughtless unoriginality, according to a high school valedictorian in New York.
The board on Thursday authorized district Superintendent Ramon Cortines to start negotiating with unions to develop a new system to evaluate teachers and administrators that includes using so-called value-added data.
Hurricane Earl swipes N.C's Outer Banks, Virginia and Maryland, dumping heavy rain and leaving thousands without power, but sparing the Mid-Atlantic coastline the full force of its Category 2 power; storm still poses a serious threat to eastern Long Island and Massachusetts. | | VIDEO FULL COVERAGE: Hurricane Earl | VIDEO | WEATHER CENTER | TRACKERWind Scale | Following Earl LOCAL COVERAGE | UREPORT | VIDEO
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Residents of New York and New England braced for a potential onslaught Friday from Hurricane Earl, which earlier lashed the Carolina coastline with 35-foot waves. North Carolina's governor said her state had "dodged the bullet."
A fire on a well connected to an oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday is out and there is no indication of an oil sheen, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Bomb squad investigators were at Miami International Airport on Friday after a suspicious item was spotted in a baggage screening area, authorities said.
