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According to a press release on Wednesday, at least 15 named storms will impact the Eastern U.S. over the coming months, which is above the average  currently set at eleven. Out of that, seven to nine hurricanes are expected, two or three of them being considered catastrophically major. 

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"Over the years, court-appointed trustees laboring to unwind the scheme have recovered more than $14 billion of an estimated $17.5 billion investors put into Madoff’s business. At the time of Madoff’s arrest, fake account statements were telling clients they had holdings worth $60 billion," according to the Associated Press.  

Charlotte

McCrory, 64, spent fourteen years as Charlotte's Mayor from 1995 to 2009 before taking over as North Carolina's Governor in 2013. He lost his reelection bid to Roy Cooper in 2016 by a narrow margin of 10,277 votes. It was also the only gubernatorial seat to flip from Republican to Democratic five years ago.

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"The President has judged that a conditions-based approach, which is then the approach of the past two decades, is a recipe for staying in Afghanistan forever. And so he has reached the conclusion that the United States will complete its drawdown, will remove its forces from Afghanistan," a senior official told CNN on Tuesday.

Charlotte

Iredell District Court Judge Christine Underwood once again told the town and its police department that it has seven days to comply with a court order or go to jail. Sanders' lawyer Ashley Cannon says Mooresville PD seized $17K belonging to him when they searched his rental car in a hotel parking lot on Nov. 16.

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About 7 million people have received the single-shot vaccine in the United States. And out of those people, six have reportedly experienced cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) blood clots as of Tuesday morning. "Right now, these adverse events appear to be extremely rare," the agencies added.

Charlotte

Since leaving office, McCrory transitioned his career to being on the air at WBT three years ago. One of the only conservative voices in the nation to make the jump from politics into broadcasting and carry a top-rated radio show for over six months.     

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An Army Officer in Virginia is seeking more than $1 million in damages against two police officers after being pepper-sprayed and forced to the ground during a traffic stop in December. The incident caught on video shows Army Lt. Caron Nazario pulled over in a black SUV for reportedly driving without a rear license plate.

Charlotte

"It is with much sadness that we announce that late this afternoon our beloved co-worker, Robert Shook, succumbed to his injuries and passed from this earthly world. We are all heartbroken and our attention must turn to comforting each other and Robert’s family," reads the announcement from the company's owners, Joel and Steven Long.