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A man walks along the waterfront as Hurricane Irene passes to the east of Nassau on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, Thursday Aug. 25, 2011. Irene is pounding the Bahamas as a Category 3 hurricane. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

More evacuations as Hurricane Irene approaches

Martha Waggoner, Mitch Weiss The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 12:13pm

BUXTON, N.C. — Thousands were fleeing an exposed strip of coastal villages and beaches off North Carolina on Thursday as Irene approached, threatening to become the most powerful hurricane to hit the East Coast in seven years.

Hours after a hurricane watch was issued for much of the state’s coast, emergency officials expanded evacuation orders to include hundreds of thousands of tourists and locals in four coastal counties. The areas include the barrier island chain known as the Outer Banks, which is expected to take the brunt of Irene’s first hit over the weekend.

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Officials order Irene evacuations

Martha Waggoner The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 4:57pm

URGENT Coastal NC county orders tourists out for Irene

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HATTERAS, N.C. — Officials in North Carolina’s coastal Dare County say tourists must leave as Hurricane Irene approaches.

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(CHRIS SEWARD/The Associated Press) Jen Zezza helps look for items in friend Christine Rechenberg’s tornado-destroyed home in northeast Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday.

Storm's human, financial toll rises in North Carolina capital

Martha Waggoner, The Associated Press, Tom Breen

Last updated Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 9:27pm

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The tornado that carved through North Carolina's capital killed four children, shuttered a university for the rest of the spring semester and felled the signature trees in the metropolis known as the "City of Oaks."

It was the most active system of tornadoes on record in the state's history, leading to 23 deaths. In Raleigh, one of the nation's fastest-growing cities, the death toll and property damages underscored the massive costs that can be inflicted when a tornado makes a rare venture into areas of dense population.

In all, the storm killed 45 people in six states, but North Carolina was by far the hardest-hit.

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(SHAWN ROCCO/The Associated Press) Greg Taylor reacts as hears the decision of the N.C. Innocence Commission exonerating him of murder charges, Wednesday. Taylor's attorney Christine Mumma is at right.

Judges free NC murder convict after 16 years

Martha Waggoner The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 5:08pm

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A man convicted of murdering a prostitute was exonerated and set free Wednesday in the first win for North Carolina's innocence commission, the first and only panel of its kind in the nation.

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(The Associated Press) Supermodel Emme is host of "More to Love."

Move over lean & lanky ... plus-size women taking over TV

Martha Waggoner The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 20, 2009 - 5:10pm

INTERACTIVE: Plus Size Fashion
RALEIGH, N.C. â€” Ask model and fashion designer Emme whether television and other media are more accepting of plus-size people, and she quickly corrects you.
"Average women," she says.
The host of the new Fox reality dating show, "More to Love," has been on this campaign since the mid-1990s, when she began telling full-size women to be more accepting of themselves. In her latest venture, she guides a 6-foot-3, 330-pound man who as he chooses among 20 women who wear sizes ranging from 14 to 22.

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