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Month: November 2021

Washington faces threat of more ‘atmospheric rivers,’ floods

SEATTLE (AP) — A week and a half after damaging floods in Washington state, forecasters are warning that multiple “atmospheric rivers” threaten to once again drench the Pacific Northwest beginning Thanksgiving Day. Atmospheric rivers are huge plumes of moisture extending over the Pacific and into the Northwest. Forecasters say more moisture from the atmospheric rivers

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Therapy dog helps struggling North Carolina elementary school readers

By Tammy Watford Click here for updates on this story     WEAVERVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Wrigley, a certified therapy dog, and his owner and Title I assistant Emily McCullough visit North Buncombe Elementary School often. They work with reluctant readers who need more practice and encouragement. Therapy dog helps struggling North Buncombe Elementary readers McCullough

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Ahmaud Arbery’s mother expresses gratitude Thanksgiving morning, saying, ‘We finally got justice’

By Gregory Lemos The mother of Ahmaud Arbery expressed gratitude Thanksgiving morning for the guilty verdicts of the three men who killed her son, calling the moment “bittersweet.” “This is the second Thanksgiving that my family and I will share without Ahmaud,” Wanda Cooper-Jones said in an interview on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday. “But this

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