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NC Teen Found Dead Had Never Been to Area Before

The 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...

Police: Body Found in Md. River Is Missing NC Teen

BALTIMORE -- 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...

NC's Storm Death Toll Rises to 22 as Infant Dies

BONNETSVILLE, 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...

NC Faces Massive Price Tag in Storm Cleanup Effort

BONNETSVILLE, 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...

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...