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One dead, five Va. communities under voluntary evacuation order from Helene 09/27/2024 05:51pm • One person is reported dead in Virginia and five localities in the southwest region of the state are under a voluntary evacuation order as a result of Tropical Depression Helene, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a Facebook live update around 4 p.m. Friday afternoon. The one fatality in Crai The final 3 anti-abortion activists have been sentenced in a Tennessee clinic blockade 09/27/2024 05:42pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The final three anti-abortion activists convicted of a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade were sentenced this week, including the person considered to be the main organizer of the action. Chester Gallagher was sentenced on Thursday to 16 months in prison, by far the longest sen Hurricane Isaac and Tropical Storm Joyce get stronger in the Atlantic, far from land 09/27/2024 05:30pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Hurricane Isaac was intensifying and Tropical Storm Joyce was getting better organized in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, forecasters said. Both systems were far out at sea, and no coastal watches or warnings were in effect. But the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said both were g Titan implosion testimony paints a picture of reckless greed and explorer passion 09/27/2024 04:23pm • Two weeks of testimony suggested the company responsible for an experimental deep-water submersible that imploded, killing five people, either recklessly ignored warning signs in the name of profits or represented the nation's explorer spirit in taking calculated risks to push humankind���s boundari A man trying to cremate his dog sparked a wildfire in Colorado, authorities say 09/27/2024 04:22pm • NUCLA, Colo. (AP) ��� Wildfire investigators looking for the cause of blaze in western Colorado last month discovered the partially burned remains of a dog ��� leading to the conclusion that a man's attempted cremation of his pet sparked a fire that damaged private property including a cabin. Law en Federal government postpones sale of floating offshore wind leases along Oregon coast 09/27/2024 02:50pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� The federal government postponed an auction of floating offshore wind leases off the Oregon coast on Friday after developers said they wouldn't bid and the state's governor asked that all leasing activities stop. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management did not set a new date fo Utilities complete transmission line linking Iowa and Wisconsin 09/27/2024 01:28pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Construction work on a high-voltage transmission linking Iowa and Wisconsin has been completed and the line is fully operational, a group of utilities announced Friday. American Transmission Company, Dairyland Power Cooperative and ITC Midwest began work on the 102-mile (164-k Boy on school field trip dies after tree falls on him at a Michigan nature center 09/27/2024 12:34pm • HOWELL, Mich. (AP) ��� A 12-year-old boy died after he was struck by a tree that fell at a southeastern Michigan nature center where he and classmates were on a field trip, authorities said. Declan Carter was at the Howell Nature Center when the tree fell and struck him in the head Thursday afternoo Abortion-rights groups are courting Latino voters in Arizona and Florida 09/27/2024 10:23am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� When Lesley Chavez found out she was pregnant at age 16, she saw her daughter as a blessing from God and never considered an abortion, a view reinforced by her devout Christian mother. If she could have voted at the time, Chavez would have opposed expanding abortion access. But 10 y As many forests fail to recover from wildfires, replanting efforts face huge odds -- and obstacles 09/27/2024 09:31am • BELLVUE, Colo. (AP) ��� Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over evergreen seedlings, measuring how much each had grown in seven months. "That's two to three inches of growth on the spruce,��� said Stevens-Rumann, interim director at the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. Her Tired of searching for halal meat, this Afghan refugee opened his own store in Howard Co. 09/27/2024 05:00am • This story is part of WTOP���s��Small Business September��series, sponsored by EagleBank. When Mohammad Sultani, a refugee from Afghanistan, first relocated with his family to Maryland in 2013, he struggled to find halal meat and other culturally significant ingredients. Halal meat is prep Cardinals visit the Giants to start 3-game series 09/27/2024 04:01am • St. Louis Cardinals (81-78, third in the NL Central) vs. San Francisco Giants (79-80, fourth in the NL West) San Francisco; Friday, 10:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (9-11, 5.35 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 118 strikeouts); Giants: Landen Roupp (1-1, 2.70 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 43 strikeouts) Tropical Weather Latest: Helene makes landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in northwestern Florida 09/26/2024 11:56pm • Fast-moving Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida's northwestern coast as a Category 4 storm Thursday evening, threatening a ���catastrophic��� storm surge as well as damaging winds, rains and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S., foreca Helene makes landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane 09/26/2024 11:56pm • CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned that the enormous system could create a ���nightmare��� storm surge and bring dangerous winds and rain across much of the southeastern U.S. The National Hurr Alabama puts man convicted of killing 3 to death in the country���s second nitrogen gas execution 09/26/2024 11:52pm • ATMORE, Ala. (AP) ��� Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:38