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But when you delve deeper into our database of 1.7 million car listings, all sorts of geographic quirks emerge. Yet in and around the state capital of Jackson, where per capita income exceeds the national average, five of the 10 most popular cars are Mercedes-Benzes. In Rutherford County, Tennessee, where the nearby Nissan plant cranks out 2,500 vehicles a day, four of the 10 most popular cars are Nissans. Nine of the 10 most popular cars in Spartanburg, South Carolina, are foreign — yet not a single one of them is a BMW, whose nearby plant employs 100,000 people. And in Alameda County, California, whose Fremont plant turns out most of the country's Teslas, not a single one of the 10 favorite vehicles is a Tesla.

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An armed North Carolina man was arrested after it was reported that he had made comments about “possibly harming FEMA employees” involved in hurricane relief efforts in the state, authorities said. William Jacob Parsons, 44, was arrested Saturday after the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office received a call saying the caller witnessed Parsons making threatening comments about Federal Emergency Management Agency responders in Lake Lure and Chimney Rock, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. He was charged with “Going Armed to the Terror of the Public,” the sheriff’s office said. In Ashe County, FEMA operations were briefly put on pause in response to the threats and resumed today, the county sheriff’s office said on Facebook. “FEMA continues to support communities impacted by Helene and help survivors apply for assistance,” a FEMA spokesperson said.

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☆ North Carolina: FEMA forced to pause Hurricane Helene aid due to reported threats toward responders
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Paradise Afshar | Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Aid to several communities impacted by Hurricane Helene was temporarily paused in parts of North Carolina over the weekend due to reports of threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency responders, amid a backdrop of misinformation about responses to recent storms. Some FEMA teams helping disaster survivors apply for assistance in rural North Carolina are currently working at secure disaster recovery centers in counties where federal workers are receiving threats, a FEMA spokesperson told CNN on Monday. More than 100 people were killed in North Carolina and thousands of others were left grappling with catastrophic damage. There were more than 1,200 FEMA staff providing support in North Carolina as of Saturday, according to an update from the agency. FEMA officials have received threats before, but the difference is the magnitude of threats received in the wake of Helene’s devastation in North Carolina, the FEMA spokesperson told CNN.

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It’s not unusual for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have to respond to rumors surrounding any given natural disaster. This week, President Joe Biden requested a memorandum from his team on the federal government’s digital response, including how officials were remediating misinformation, a senior administration official told CNN. “The contours of this misinformation are unlike anything we’ve seen before,” a senior administration official told CNN. CNN previously reported that there were 30 midair near-collisions involving noncommercial flights in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Saturday, September 28. FEMA personnel on the ground receive threatsThe snowballing of false information on the heels of Hurricane Helene has also directly affected those on the ground.

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☆ False claims about the federal response to Helene are an ominous sign for the coming election
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Brian Stelter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —False claims about the federal response to the historic devastation left by Hurricane Helene are spreading out of control on social media, hampering recovery efforts in hard-hit areas, according to local officials. Elon Musk, the X owner who has endorsed Trump, has repeatedly posted rumors and innuendo denigrating the federal government’s response to Helene. Most of the misinformation is brazenly political, portraying President Joe Biden and Harris as incompetent in an attempt to help Trump win reelection. Some of the most-shared lies on social media have involved FEMA’s response. “Republican elected officials keep rebutting the BS, and MAGA does not care,” conservative columnist David French said in a social media post Saturday.

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☆ Two failing dams in North Carolina force urgent evacuations after days of heavy rain
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Evan Bush | Evan Bush Is A Science Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

At least two major dams in North Carolina were at risk or in the process of failing on Friday, forcing evacuations after Hurricane Helene inundated the region. Officials in South Carolina have been warned that a failure could even impact towns there, according to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. “RESIDENTS BELOW THE LAKE LURE DAM NEED TO EVACUATE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY! Lake Lure in North Carolina as seen from Chimney Rock National Park. It also received $16.5 million for the project in 2022 from the state of North Carolina.

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☆ Tennessee Gas Station Clerk Stole $1 Million Lottery Ticket, Police Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Hank Sanders | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Tennessee gas station clerk’s plan to cheat a customer out of a $1 million lottery ticket and to claim it for himself was thwarted after store video captured the clerk pretending to throw the ticket away and then celebrating after retrieving it from the trash, according to prosecutors. He went to Tennessee Lottery’s district office in Nashville on July 16 to cash the seven-figure winning ticket, according to court documents. But lottery employees became suspicious after analyzing Mr. Patel’s identification and hearing his story about finding the ticket in the trash, court documents said. The lottery employees then asked police to review video from the Shell station in Murfreesboro where the ticket was bought, the local station WSMV reported. “He knew it was a winning ticket,” Lt. Steve Craig of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said in an interview on Wednesday.

Persons: Meer Patel, Patel, “, Steve Craig Organizations: Shell, Sheriff’s Locations: Tennessee, Murfreesboro, Tenn, Tennessee Lottery’s, Nashville, Rutherford

☆ A store clerk stole a $1 million lottery ticket, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Kaila Nichols | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

One winning ticket had a prize of $40 and the other was the $1 million ticket. A clerk at the gas station stole the ticket and tried to collect the prize, authorities said. Store video obtained by investigators of the Tennessee Lottery shows Meet Patel scanning the tickets, according to authorities. Patel then placed the $1 million ticket in the trash, authorities said. Later, the video allegedly shows him taking out the trash, after which he removes the winning ticket and puts it in his pocket.

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☆ The Kids of Rutherford County, Episode 4: Dedicated Public Servants
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Listen and follow ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’The lawyers settle their case on behalf of the children who were wrongfully arrested or illegally jailed by Rutherford County. The county ends its illegal detention policy, and some of the kids who were wronged by the system are paid. But none of the adults behind the illegal policies face serious consequences. So what has changed in Rutherford County, and what hasn’t?

Organizations: Apple, Spotify Locations: Rutherford County

☆ The Kids of Rutherford County, Episode 3: ‘Would You Like to Sue the Government?’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +43 min

And it meant going back to the Rutherford County Juvenile Court, going back in front of Judge Davenport. meribah knightAnd more importantly —wes clark I was definitely thinking about how we could sue somebody for what happened. wes clark I just remember being giddy, like a kid, like this sentence, this is fucking bonkers, that this exists. And this is The Kids of Rutherford County, Episode 3: Would You Like to Sue the Government? Even more, Rutherford County would likely continue to jail kids at an extraordinary rate.

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☆ The Kids of Rutherford County, Episode 1: The Egregious Video
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Listen and follow ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’In the spring of 2016, a video of kids fighting in Rutherford County, Tenn., was posted on the internet and caught the attention of a local police officer. She began an investigation that led to the arrest of 11 Black schoolchildren, some as young as 8 years old, for watching the fight and not stopping it. The arrests rattled the local community and beyond. But many who worked inside the Rutherford County juvenile justice system didn’t see a problem. What the outside world would eventually learn was that this county’s justice system had been locking up kids, illegally, for years.

Persons: Rutherford County ’ Organizations: Apple, Spotify Locations: Rutherford County, Tenn, Rutherford

☆ The Kids of Rutherford County, Episode 2: ‘What the Hell Are You People Doing?’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Listen and follow ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’A young lawyer named Wes Clark begins defending children at the Rutherford County juvenile court. He quickly sees a troubling pattern: Kids are jailed for minor offenses, even when the law says they shouldn’t be. Wes is frustrated and demoralized, even more so because no one else at the court seems to think there’s a problem. That is, until Wes meets another lawyer who sees things the way he does. When one of Wes’s clients is held in solitary confinement, both lawyers think they have a case that will make the court comply with the law.

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Meribah Knight and Daniel Guillemette and Julie Snyder andApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Listen and follow ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’In April 2016, 11 Black schoolchildren, some as young as 8 years old, were arrested in Rutherford County, Tenn. For over a decade, this county had arrested and illegally jailed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children. The answer would lead back to a powerful judge, the jailer she appointed and a county that treated this astronomical number of arrests as normal. From Serial Productions and The New York Times, “The Kids of Rutherford County” is a four-part narrative series reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South. In the podcast, Knight explores the world of one county’s juvenile court — a court shrouded in confidentiality and privacy, which in turn allowed something secretive and illegal to grow.

Persons: Meribah Knight, Daniel Guillemette, Julie Snyder, Rutherford County ’, Knight, — Organizations: Apple, Spotify, The New York Times, Peabody Locations: Rutherford County, Tenn

A Tennessee police department was in turmoil Tuesday following allegations that at least five of its male officers had sex with a female officer both on and off the job. The officers spoke about sharing cellphone photos of their genitals, having sex in the police station on duty and taking part in “Girls Gone Wild”-type parties. Officer Maegan Hall being sworn in at the La Vergne Police Department in Tennessee on Aug. 19, 2021. Under questioning, Powell, Magliocco, Holloday, Shields and Lugo-Perez all admitted to having had sex with Hall, the report states. Hall also admitted having had sex with those officers and with McGowan, as well, the report says.

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