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In remote mountain areas, helicopters hoisted the stranded to safety while search crews moved toppled trees so they could look door to door for survivors. In some places, homes teetered on hillsides and washed-out riverbanks.
BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Sarah Vekasi is a potter who runs a store in Black Mountain, North Carolina, called Sarah Sunshine Pottery, named after her normally bubbly personality. But these days she’s struggling with the trauma of Hurricane Helene and uncertainty about the future of her business.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — More than 100 people, mostly women and children, were missing after an overloaded boat bringing them back from an Islamic festival at night capsized in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said Wednesday.
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — The remains of nine more Native American children who died at a notorious government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania over a century ago were disinterred from a small Army cemetery and returned to families, authorities said Wednesday.
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- ‘Microclinic’ site approved by council
- Exercise class for older adults planned
- Pet vaccination clinic is Saturday
- Red Tornadoes in ‘must-win’ district game
Animal Control Officer Heather Estrada is hosting an affordable vaccination clinic for cats and dogs from 9-11 a.m.
Clinton Junior Service League’s annual spaghetti feed fundraiser is set for this Friday at the Frisco Center, offering lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Preparing for the event are members, from left, Stacie Nickel, Tayler Hartman, Madison Heard, Brittany Miller, Erin Giles, and Chelle Gutermuth.