Urban heat islands become dangerous when temperatures rise.
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The candidates weigh in on what their districts — and the city — need most.
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Andrew 'Gumby' Breton, Paul Goldman and Zac Walker are running for the seat.
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City Council Vice President Ann-Frances Lambert is running against Kenya Gibson and Maria Carra Rose.
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Sarah Abubaker is running unopposed.
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Stephanie Lynch is running unopposed.
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Ellen Robertson is running for re-election against Tavares Floyd and Willie E. Hilliard.
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TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of "Worst Cooks in America," has died. Medical examiners are set to determine what caused her death.
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Goliath had been paired with several female tortoises before, in hopes of producing a hatchling, but the process wasn't successful until earlier this month.
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President Trump is the first U.S. president in 116 years that the NAACP hasn't invited to the annual convention. The group says Trump is attacking democracy and civil rights.
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The highly anticipated text from the Senate is out — and it's already causing concern from GOP stakeholders in both chambers.
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Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white supremacist killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015 in hopes of starting a race war.
Arts & Culture
- Shooting fireworks over a historic— and flammable — city takes planning
- Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay
- Recent Hanover museum exhibit examines Brown Grove's history, legacy
- On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad