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‘Hope in the air’: Rep. Adams on enthusiasm for Harris in NC
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Another house collapses into the ocean along the Outer Banks
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RODANTHE, N.C. (WTVD) — Rough seas from Hurricane Ernesto have sent at least one home into the ocean in Rodanthe.
Video and pictures posted by Chicamacomico Banks Fire & Rescue show the breathtaking scene with debris littering the beach and a whole home floating in the surf.
“Please do not enter the ocean as the debris will be washing around for the next few days,” the first responders wrote on social media.
The area where this is happening is along Corbina Drive, and homes like this collapsing into the ocean is becoming all too frequent a problem in the Outer Banks. Just in the past 4 years there have been six homes in Rodanthe that have collapsed.
Collapsing homes along the ocean can cause a myriad of problems for people as well as the local ecosystem. That’s why the Superintendent of the National Park Service covering Cape Hatteras launched a pilot program to buy up some of the homes to tear them down.
“We had to have willing sellers’ houses that were essentially in the ocean at high tide every day. We found the money to purchase those properties. We removed the houses completely, demolished them completely and restored the beach. And if we went out to that location today, you wouldn’t have much to see because it would just be a beautiful beach,” said David Hullac with the U.S. National Park Service.
They’ve successfully bought two homes and want to see the state fund the program even more.
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Harris Jabs Trump on Economy, Unveils Set of Price-Reduction Proposals
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Kamala Harris unveiled a new set of policy proposals aimed at reducing the cost of living for middle-class Americans during her first major policy speech at a Friday rally in North Carolina.
The vice president and 2024 Democratic candidate took a jab at her opponent, Donald Trump, who was in North Carolina — a key battleground state — on Wednesday. Trump hosted a press conference on the economy on Thursday at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, while standing next to a table of common grocery items.
“He offered no serious plans to reduce costs for middle-class families,” Harris told her audience. “No plan to expand access to housing or health care, and that, actually, for most of us, was not surprising.”
Throughout the speech, Harris offered her own proposals to curb high prices in health care, groceries, housing, and child care.
The vice president promised legislation to control price gouging by food companies and support small independent grocers while decrying that “many of the big food companies are seeing their highest profits in two decades” as consumers continue to struggle.
Harris contrasted her plan with Trump’s proposal to implement widespread tariffs on imported goods — which would impact large swaths of fruits and vegetables in the United States — as a plan that would “devastate Americans.”
“It will mean higher prices, on just about every one of your daily needs,” she said of the former president’s push for tariffs. “A Trump tax on gas, a Trump tax on food.”
Harris also touted sweeping policies to improve the cost of housing, including the construction of 3 million affordable new homes and apartments during her first term as president, expanded protections against corporate landlords, and a $25,000 credit for first-time homebuyers.
In addition, Harris vowed to restore and expand the child tax credit to $6,000 during the first year of a newborn’s life, as well as an expansion of the earned income tax credit for low-income workers. According to the vice president, the plan would benefit over 100 million Americans.
Harris contrasted her mission with the tax benefits granted to the ultra-wealthy and corporations under Trump’s first administration and warned that it would happen again if he retook the White House.
“I think that if you wanna know who someone cares about, look at who they fight for,” she said. “Donald Trump fights for billionaires and large corporations. I will fight to give money back to working and middle-class Americans.”
The economy and the financial struggles plaguing everyday Americans have and continue to be a defining issue in the 2024 election cycle. As Trump and Harris fight for dominance on the issue, early polling suggests that voters may have more confidence in Harris’ ability to handle the economy. This week, a survey conducted by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan found that 42 percent of voters trust the vice president’s ability to manage the nation’s financial health, a sharp increase from their outlook on President Joe Biden.
Harris will continue to pitch her vision for the nation’s economic future next week at the Democratic National Convention, where she is expected to be officially crowned as the party’s nominee to take on Trump this November.
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North Carolina manhunt for escaped murderer ends more than 100 miles away, woman also arrested
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Ramone Jamarr Alston, the “Christmas Day Killer” who escaped custody Tuesday morning and ran off into the woods near UNC Hillsborough Hospital, has been recaptured in Kannapolis, North Carolina, authorities said.
Tactical officers arrested him at a hotel on Cloverleaf Parkway around 2 a.m. Friday, according to investigators.
That is more than 100 miles to the west of where he escaped.
NORTH CAROLINA SHERIFF HUNTING ‘CHRISTMAS DAY KILLER’ KNOWS HIM PERSONALLY, WARNS HE HAS ‘NOTHING TO LOSE’
Officers with the North Carolina Prison Emergency Response Team search for escaped inmate Ramone Alston on Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, 2024, in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Alston, who was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, escaped on Tuesday morning from UNC Hospitals in Hillsborough as he was being transported from Bertie Correctional Institution to Hillsborough. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“Alston will be charged with felony escape from prison, and is being taken to a high security unit in the state prison system,” a spokesperson for the state’s Department of Adult Correction said in a statement. “There he will resume serving his life sentence for first degree murder and await court appearances for his escape charges.”
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Ramone Jamarr Alston was captured after escaping custody. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
Police also arrested a female acquaintance of Alston, Jacobia Crisp, in Alamance County on charges of aiding and abetting a fugitive. Investigators were looking into whether he had help from anyone else and said more charges could be possible.
NORTH CAROLINA MANHUNT LAUNCHED FOR CONVICTED MURDERER WHO ESCAPED ON WAY TO HOSPITAL: SHERIFF
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Ramone Jamarr Alston, 30, escaped from the custody of officers from the North Carolina Department of Corrections while being transported from Bertie Correctional Institution to UNC Gastroenterology in Hillsborough to receive medical care. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
Alston, 30, was serving a life sentence for the murder of 1-year-old Maleah Williams, who died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head during a drive-by shooting.
Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood said earlier this week that he grew up with the escapee’s father and has known him for a long time.
“He was a troubled child, and he’s been involved in criminal activity since he was a juvenile,” he told reporters during a Wednesday morning briefing streamed on Facebook. “He’s extremely cagey. He’s extremely dangerous. And he has nothing to lose.”
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina was offering $35,000 for information leading to the capture of Ramone Jamarr Alston. Authorities later boosted the reward to $50,000 before a tactical team found him hiding out at a hotel in Kannapolis on Friday morning. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
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Alston was at the wheel and one of two gunmen in a drive-by shooting in Chapel Hill in 2015, according to the News & Observer. They opened fire in an apartment complex, and one of the bullets struck Maleah in the back of her head as her mother held her in her arms.
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