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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nearly six years after flood damage from Hurricane Matthew displaced Thad Artis from his home in Goldsboro, N.C., he has still not been placed in permanent housing. Living alone in a motel for the last two years, growing increasingly frustrated with what he considers empty promises of swift action from government [...]
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — David Stephens' children romped around the small patch of grass they've turned into a makeshift playground, running and laughing — seemingly without a care in the world. Their father, though, is gripped by worry about the future. He marvels at his kids' resilience, considering the losses and hardships they've endured. When floodwaters [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Everywhere, it seems, back-to-school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage. The education secretary has called for investment to keep teachers from quitting. A teachers union leader has described it as a five-alarm emergency. News coverage has warned of a crisis in teaching. In reality, there is little evidence [...]
DENVER (AP) — The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem. The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill up a glass of water at the dinner table, wash their clothes or grow food across millions of acres use significantly more each year than actually [...]
A bankruptcy judge last week approved a $2.46 billion reorganization plan proposed by the Boy Scouts of America, which would allow it to keep operating while compensating tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children while involved in Scouting. Though legal hurdles remain, the ruling by Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — Most contractors told them they would tear it down. A two-story five-bedroom Victorian home built around 1900, it was abandoned and collapsing, with vines reaching its rafters. Elegant features were scavenged long ago. The house's place in American history was at risk of disappearing. An Atlanta couple bought the property, nevertheless, hoping [...]
They're known at school as the group of parents who orchestrate everything from Halloween parties to book fairs, but a parent-teacher organization isn't just for the kids. Parents join a PTO for all kinds of reasons. It has helped some revitalize career skills, share passions, find job opportunities and assuage the middle-age friend desert, all [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A record heat wave put California in a fossil fuel conundrum: The state had to rely more heavily on natural gas to produce electricity and avoid power outages while Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration moves toward ending the use of oil and gas. The heat wave that hit the state earlier this [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With legal sports betting in its fifth year in much of the country, things are getting much more intense, with increasing ways to bet and more opportunities to rapidly win — and lose — money. As the NFL season begins, 31 states plus Washington D.C. offer legal sports betting. A [...]
TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A decade ago, Florida's Space Coast was in the doldrums. The space shuttle program had ended and with it the steady stream of space enthusiasts who filled the area's restaurants and hotel and motel rooms during regular astronaut launches. The Kennedy Space Center's 7,400 laid-off shuttle workers struggled to find jobs [...]