This year has proved to be an especially active political season for Wilmington with numerous high-profile officials hosting events and delivering remarks across a range of venues. Since May, nine prominent political figures have made stops in Wilmington. Here’s a closer look at each visit and the key issues they brought to the forefront. President…
WASHINGTON − The Justice Department has warned tech billionaire Elon Musk and his pro-Trump political action committee that its $1 million daily handouts to registered voters in swing states may violate federal election law, media outlets reported Wednesday. The department’s public integrity section, which investigates potential election-related law violations, sent the letter to Musk’s America…
An 11-year-old reported missing in Iowa was found Monday morning around 360 miles away at an Indiana gas station, police said. Indiana State Police were contacted at 2 a.m. by a detective from the Iowa City Police Department concerning a child abduction that happened in their city on Sunday, according to a department news release….
With the federal response to Hurricane Helene becoming a major focus of the presidential campaign in the home stretch, President Joe Biden’s administration continued to push back Sunday against former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims about storm recovery. Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell said her agency has…
Telling an Asheville volunteer leader “we’re here for the long haul,” Vice President Kamala Harris visited North Carolina on Saturday to be briefed on the damage the state suffered from Tropical Storm Helene and meet people dealing with the aftermath of its catastrophic flooding. The record high water tore apart major districts of Asheville and…
Aerial footage is capturing the extent of Hurricane Helene’s cataclysmic impact on Asheville, North Carolina. Across the Southeast, the storm has killed at least 200 people since its historic landfall along Florida’s Big Bend region Sept. 27. Almost 1 million homes and businesses are without power throughout the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and Virginia while thousands remain…
When Helene inundated and isolated communities across the Southeast, it knocked out cell phone service in Canton, North Carolina at the moment residents needed it most, according to the town’s mayor, Zeb Smathers. The loss of service “crippled” the town’s ability to communicate during and after a devastating storm, leaving residents few options to get…
Helene’s swath of destruction has caused historic rainfall, flooding, power outages and 140-mile-an-hour winds across the Southeast. But it was North Carolina that bore the brunt of it Saturday with vast swaths of cities like Asheville and Greeneville under water, residents trapped in their homes with no lights or food and few functioning roads for…
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend late Thursday night before weakening into a tropical storm and continuing its northward movement, the National Hurricane Center said, triggering millions of power outages across multiple states Thursday night and Friday morning. As of the 8 a.m. ET advisory from the NHC, the storm was located about…