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NC Teen Found Dead Had Never Been to Area Before
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsThe half-brother of a missing North Carolina girl said she had never gone to the area in northeastern Maryland near the Conowingo Dam where her body was found last week and said he hopes an arrest is made soon. Authorities confirmed on Thursday they had found the body of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, who vanished late last year while visiting her older half-siblings in Baltimore for the holidays. Her body was pulled from the Susquehanna River after authorities and volunteers had searched for weeks. Her half-brother, Bryan Barnes, told The Baltimore Sun that he doubted Phylicia would travel 40 ...
Police: Body Found in Md. River Is Missing NC Teen
By not in system - AOL NewsBALTIMORE -- After months of searches and appeals to the public, authorities confirmed Thursday that a body found in a northeast Maryland river was a North Carolina teen who went missing while visiting relatives in Baltimore over the Christmas holidays. Phylicia Barnes, from the small North Carolina city of Monroe, about 25 miles southeast of Charlotte, disappeared Dec. 28 while visiting her older half-siblings for the holidays. Her 17th birthday was Jan. 12. Baltimore Police Baltimore police say a body found in a river in northeast Maryland on Wednesday is that of missing teen ...
NC's Storm Death Toll Rises to 22 as Infant Dies
By not in system - AOL NewsBONNETSVILLE, N.C. -- A fourth child from a Raleigh mobile home has died from storm-related injuries, bringing North Carolina's death toll to 22. Six-month-old Yaire Quistian-Nino had been in the hospital. Raleigh police confirmed her death Tuesday. Yaire's 9-year-old brother Daniel Quistian-Nino was also killed in the home, along with two cousins, 8-year-old Osvaldo Coronado-Nino and 3-year-old Kevin Uriel Coronado-Nino. Family spokesman Hector Velazco declined to comment, saying the family will speak at a memorial service to be held Wednesday night. Authorities have said that Yaire's ...
NC Faces Massive Price Tag in Storm Cleanup Effort
By not in system - AOL NewsBONNETSVILLE, N.C. - Shards of glass from old bottles and furniture smashed by a tornado that tore through town littered the concrete floor of Rhonda Carter's antique store, shattering her plans to open an auction house in nearby Salemburg. A storage area in the back was flattened. "I just had a feeling something bad was going to happen, and it did," Carter said of Saturday, when storms raged through Bonnetsville and other parts of North Carolina, killing at least 21 and damaging or destroying more than 800 homes. "Now I'm starting over." From remote rural communities to the state's ...
Devastated South Looks to Recover From Killer Twisters
By not in system - AOL NewsSANFORD, N.C. -- Lowe's store manager Michael Hollowell had heard the tornado warnings but his first clue that the danger was outside his front door came when he saw his staff running toward the back of the home improvement store. More than 100 employees and customers screamed in near unison when the steel roof curled off overhead Saturday. The store was becoming part of the wreckage left by a ferocious storm system bristling with killer twisters that ripped through the South. "You could hear all the steel ripping. People screaming in fear for their lives," Hollowell told The ...
North Carolina Gets Worst of Storms That Ravaged Swath of US
By not in system - AOL NewsASKEWVILLE, N.C. - A tornado-spewing storm system that killed at least 45 people across half the country unleashed its worst fury on North Carolina, where homes broke apart, trees snapped and livestock were swept into the air. Residents in the capital city and rural hamlets alike on Sunday mourned the dead, marveled at their own survival and began to clean up devastated neighborhoods. Observers reported more than 60 tornadoes across North Carolina on Saturday, but most of the state's 21 confirmed deaths occurred in two rural counties. A thunderstorm spawned a tornado that killed four people ...
Twisters Leave Dozens Dead, Destruction in 6 States
By not in system - AOL NewsRALEIGH, N.C. - Rescue crews searched for survivors in wind-blasted landscapes Sunday in North Carolina, the state hardest hit by a storm system that spawned dozens of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Virginia and left dozens dead. The spring storm, North Carolina's deadliest in two decades, spun off 62 tornadoes in that state alone Saturday night. Eleven people were confirmed dead in rural Bertie County, county manager Zee Lamb said. Another four were confirmed dead in Bladen County, bringing the state's death toll to at least 21. Deaths reported by officials in five other states brought the U.S. ...
Killer Storms, Tornadoes Rip Through Carolinas
By not in system - AOL NewsRALEIGH, N.C. - A brutal spring storm raged across North Carolina on Saturday, flattening businesses, flipping cars and destroying homes, leaving an unknown number of casualties from a system already blamed for killing 17 people in four states. North Carolina officials said there were multiple fatalities and they were working to confirm the exact number. Urban search and rescue teams were in two counties looking for residents who might be trapped in damaged buildings. Jim R. Bounds, AP Emergency personnel gather in front of a Lowe's hardware store after it was hit by a tornado in ...
Resourcefulness Credited in Hiker's Rescue From NC Mountains After 3 Days
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsIn a story that could have had a much different ending, 28-year-old missing hiker Kristy Thornbrew was found alive and relatively well in the mountains of western North Carolina on Thursday, thanks to her own resourcefulness and the dogged determination of rescue workers. Thornbrew, of Florence, S.C., spent last weekend with friends at a small cabin in Bat Cave, N.C., to see a Widespread Panic concert in Asheville. Determined to see a mountaintop sunrise, she left for a hike between 4 and 5 a.m. Monday, bringing only a Diet Mountain Dew and fresh berries for her breakfast. An inexperienced ...
Duke Lacrosse Accuser May Face Murder Charges
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe woman who falsely accused members of the Duke University lacrosse team of raping her may face murder charges in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, police say. Police in Durham, N.C., say Crystal Mangum, whose sensational allegations against three Duke lacrosse players inflamed racial tensions across the country in 2006, stabbed Reginald Daye multiple times during a fight in the couple's apartment April 3. Daye, 46, died from his wounds Wednesday evening at Duke University Hospital. Mangum, 32, is already being held on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and ...
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