On Wednesday, a wildfire broke out in McDowell County in Western North Carolina after a tree fell onto a powerline.

Winston-Salem police say an unidentified man used a semi-automatic handgun to rob the Buy n' Go convenience store at the corner of Shattalon Drive and Bethania Station Road late Monday night.

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...