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Severe thunderstorm chances return for overnight hours

The unsettled pattern continues through the overnight hours and into Monday, with the chance for storms at any time, some of them severe.

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A Raleigh Man Died of an Apparent Suicide While in Solitary Confinement at a For-Profit Immigration Prison in Georgia

A Raleigh man died from an apparent suicide late Tuesday night while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a private prison in Lumpkin, Georgia.…

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Autopsy: Heroin, Fentanyl Killed Man Who Died in Durham Jail in May

An autopsy report released today by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says Dashawn Devonte Evans, a twenty-three-year-old who died in the Durham jail in May, died of heroin and fentanyl toxicity.…

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Here's What North Carolina's Representatives in Congress Think of Trump's Performance at Putin Summit

On Monday night, President Donald Trump stood next to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, and undermined his own intelligence services in deference to Putin—saying he didn’t “see any reason why it would be” Russia that interfered in the 2016 election (which it did).

In response to criticism, Trump reversed his statement over twenty-four hours later, saying that he misspoke during the news conference. Trump is now claiming that he meant to say “wouldn’t,” as opposed to “would,” and that the sentence should have read, “I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia.”

However, the change to that single statement, which itself has been questioned by linguists, does nothing to alter his various other attacks on American intelligence services or deference to Putin.…

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Raleigh doctor killed in Wade Ave. crash after his car traveling nearly 150 mph crashed

Authorities on Friday identified the driver who died after his vehicle crashed during a one-car accident that snarled traffic Thursday during the height of the evening rush hour commute.

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Montessori School of Raleigh Directress Says She Was Fired for Talking to the Cops About Sexual Abuse at the School

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Wake County Superior Court, the former Children’s House directress at the embattled Montessori School of Raleigh claims her employment was terminated because she cooperated with the police investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against former middle-school teacher Nicholas Conlon Smith and the handling of those allegations by head of school Nancy Errichetti.

The school denies the allegations.…

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Pissed Off About the Kids the Trump Administration Ripped From Their Parents? Get to Downtown Raleigh Tomorrow Morning.

There’s no need here to relitigate the abject cruelty that the Trump administration’s recent immigration policy changes represent. But it’s worth pointing out that, though the president backed down under immense pressure and has seen his efforts to crack down on refugees blocked by the courts and Congress, thousands of migrant children are still being held by the federal government, separated from their parents for no good reason.…

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Missing Myrtle Beach woman found alive after mom says she was told she had died

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) – Her mother thought she had died of a drug overdose, but Tiffany Evans was found alive, Horry County police announced Wednesday night.

In an interview with The Sun News last Friday, Evans’ mother, Crystal, said she got text messages saying her daughter was dead. Officers asked for help finding her on the same day.

Tiffany Evans was well-known to police because of arrests for prostitution and drug use. She became well-known to the public for a mugshot widely shared on social media.

Police didn’t release additional information Wednesday night about the circumstances of Evans’ disappearance, her condition, or how and when she was found.

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Contraceptive app under fire for unwanted pregnancies

(KRON/CNN) – A contraceptive app is under fire after more than three dozen users experienced unplanned pregnancies.

The Natural Cycles app, a certified contraceptive in Europe, uses an algorithm to predict when a woman is most fertile. But a Swedish hospital is raising attention about unintended pregnancies related to the app.

Södersjukhuset hospital in Stockholm said at least 37 women sought abortions at its facilities after using it as a birth control method.

The app has nearly 700,000 users worldwide.

The makers of Natural Cycles are searching for answers and ways to fix the problem. Officials say, no contraception is 100-percent effective. In the US it bills itself as a fertility monitoring app rather than a contraception method. The company’s website warns that one out of 100 women who use the app, may become pregnant.

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Powerful gale lashes Europe, 6 dead amid traffic chaos

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A powerful storm pummeled Europe with high winds and snow Thursday, killing at least six people in three countries, grounding flights, halting trains, ripping roofs off buildings and flipping over trucks.

The Dutch national weather service recorded wind gusts of up to 140 kph (87 mph) in the southern port of Hook of Holland as the storm passed over.

Amsterdam’s Schiphol briefly halted flights for an hour in the morning, and airline KLM already had scrapped more than 200 flights before the storm. Trains were halted across the nation and in Germany.

Falling trees killed two 62-year-old men in the Netherlands, a woman south of the Belgian capital of Brussels, a 59-year-old man at a camping site in the German town of Emmerich and a firefighter in the German town of Bad Salzungen. In Lippstadt, in western Germany, a driver died when he lost control of his van in strong winds and drove into oncoming traffic, police said.

Police spokeswoman Jose Albers told Dutch national broadcaster NOS that authorities also were investigating whether the powerful gusts were to blame for the death of a 66-year-old man who fell through a plexiglass roof in the central town of Vuren.

Social media in the Netherlands was flooded with images of people being blown from their bicycles, cargo containers falling off a ship and damage to buildings, including a roof that peeled off an apartment block in the city of Rotterdam.

Water authorities in the low-lying nation closed an inflatable storm barrier east of Amsterdam to prevent flooding as the storm pushed up water levels.

Traffic on Dutch roads was plunged into chaos, with the wind blowing over tractor trailers, toppling trees and hampering efforts to clean up the mess. In Amsterdam, authorities temporarily halted all trams and closed the city’s zoo.

Before halting all trains, the Dutch rail service reported numerous incidents including a collision between a train and a trampoline. In Amsterdam, a man had a narrow escape when a tree was blown over onto his scooter. He escaped unhurt.

In neighboring Belgium, the port of Ghent closed down because of the high winds and tram traffic was halted in parts of Brussels.

In Germany, police reported several injuries as well as the three deaths and the national railway company suspended long-distance train services across the country.

Deutsche Bahn’s announcement Thursday afternoon came hours after all trains in two of Germany’s populous western areas, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, were halted.

Deutsche Bahn spokesman Achim Stauss told n-tv television that the measure would remain for the rest of the day as a precaution. He said regional and local trains were still running in some areas, such as Berlin, Bavaria and the far north.

In western Germany, some 100,000 people were left without electricity and schools remained closed. The square in front of Cologne’s famous Cathedral was partially cordoned off Thursday as a precaution amid fears masonry could be blown loose.

In Britain, power was knocked out to thousands of homes. Gale-force winds damaged overhead power lines that supply trains and brought trees crashing onto the tracks, causing severe delays for thousands of commuters.

In Romania, snowstorms and high winds forced the closure of dozens of schools, several main roads and Black Sea ports, and thousands of people were left without electricity. Interior Minister Carmen Dan said Thursday that 32,000 people had no power. Authorities also freed a bus carrying 22 people that was stranded in snowdrifts in Romania’s eastern Galati region.

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School closings for Friday, Jan. 18

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A running list of closings for Friday, January 18.

School systems

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Chatham County Schools

Durham Public Schools

Lee County Schools

Wake County Schools

Cumberland County Schools will operate under a 2-hour delay.

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Snow blankets central NC, Jan. 17, 2018

We want to see your snow photos.

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Cooper: 2 dead in Washington County crash during winter weather

Roads across North Carolina were affected by heavy snowfall that blanketed most of the state in powder on Wednesday, but the lingering effects will stymie traffic on Thursday, too.

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Return of Del Burns as Interim Superintendent Recalls Years of Wake School Uproar

The return of Del Burns as interim superintendent of Wake County’s public schools recalls the rowdy days of 2009, when a new Republican majority took over the school board.

In those days, school board meetings could last for eleven hours, and arrests of protesters, including the Reverend William Barber II, offered a preview of Moral Mondays and other demonstrations. Burns, who began his education career as an Aldert Root Elementary School teacher, started as superintendent in 2006 and resigned in 2010, saying he could no longer “in good conscience” serve the Wake schools. 

The school board announced Tuesday that Burns will start February 1  and serve until the current school board selects a successor to Jim Merrill, who’s retiring.…

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Are You Enjoying Your Snow Day? These 18 Images from Around the Triangle Say You Should Be.

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Thomas Farr's Nomination to Federal Judgeship Goes Before Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday

President Donald Trump’s controversial nomination of Raleigh lawyer Thomas Farr as a federal district judge in Eastern North Carolina goes before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

If the committee OKs his nomination, Farr would only require a vote by the full Senate to assume the influential post. North Carolina’s U.S. senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, have praised Farr as an expert lawyer and, in Burr’s case, as “a good man,” a phrase he used before the committee’s first consideration of Farr in October. 

Emails to Farr, Burr, and Tillis seeking comment were not immediately returned Wednesday.…

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School closings and delays for Thursday

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Wednesday’s heavy snow has forced schools systems and businesses to close Thursday.

School systems

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Durham Public Schools

Franklin County Schools

Harnett County Schools

Lee County Schools

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Orange County Schools

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