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Published: 04/18/11

Devastated South Looks to Recover From Killer Twisters

By  not in system - AOL News
Devastated South Looks to Recover From Killer Twisters

SANFORD, 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 ...

Published: 04/17/11

Twisters Leave Dozens Dead, Destruction in 6 States

By  not in system - AOL News
Twisters Leave Dozens Dead, Destruction in 6 States

RALEIGH, 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. ...

Published: 06/2/10

Denish vs. Martinez for New Mexico Governor: A Rare 2-Woman Race

By  Jill Lawrence - Politics Daily
Denish vs. Martinez for New Mexico Governor:  A Rare 2-Woman Race

It says something about how far women haven't come that the governor's race in New Mexico is only the country's third to feature a woman competing against a woman. In this case it will be Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a former businesswoman and state party chair, versus Republican Susana Martinez, a district attorney with a crime-fighter reputation. Denish has been second in command to Gov. Bill Richardson for eight years and is trying to convince voters she represents a break from the past (one of her slogans is "A New Way Forward"). Martinez's Web site features a strategy memo that ...

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