Powerful Category 4 Hurricane Earl is pulling away from Puerto Rico and the northern Lesser Antilles Islands, and is eyeing its next potential landfall--North Carolina's Outer Banks. Earl brought ...

Hurricane Earl strengthened significantly overnight, and its Category 4 140 mph winds make it the third strongest Atlantic hurricane on record so far north in U.S. coastal waters. Only Hurricane ...

HATTERAS ISLAND, North Carolina (Reuters) - As Hurricane Earl threatened the North Carolina coast, Kathleen O'Neal was preparing to ride out the storm with her husband, their two dogs, three cats and ...

Earl is a town in Cleveland County, North Carolina, with a population of 231. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 96.10% of residents identify as white, 2.20% as Black ...

BUXTON, N.C. (AP) The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 105 mph winds Friday on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer ...

[Avon, North Carolina, September 1: Members of the Wood and Rollins families, who plan to ride out the storm in their rented beach house, stand on the balcony waving at passing cars. Image via Getty] ...