Officials are encouraging residents to take steps to prepare for extreme weather ahead of hurricane season. New data shows flood and wind risk is changing in the state.

Inland homes at risk for high winds, flooding during hurricane season. Here's what you can do now.

Holly Springs shed damage

More than a dozen former employees say understaffing at Brynn Marr Hospital contributes to what they describe as a dangerous place for patients and employees. Hospital officials say allegations of violence, sexual assaults, overmedication and lack of mental health therapy are unfounded.

Former employees say short-staffed NC psych hospital rife with violence, abuse

Brynn Marr Hospital

Jared Kushner, a White House senior advisor, walks through the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 27, 2018. The outgoing president of Mexico had expected to end his troubled term on a positive note — signing a new free-trade deal with the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 30. An announcement that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto would bestow Mexico’s highest honor for foreigners to Kushner for his role in pushing through the trade pact has incited fury in Mexico, where anger and resentment toward Trump is intense. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

His Father-in-Law Called Mexicans Rapists. He Just Won Mexico’s Highest Honor.