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DEKLE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An official with the National Hurricane Center says anyone who lives on the East Coast needs to be paying close attention this week to Tropical Storm Hermine. After roaring ashore early today, it weakened to a tropical storm as it moved through Georgia and the Carolinas. It's expected to bring heavy rain, high winds and flooding in some East Coast locations. Forecasters say it will regain strength in the Atlantic and impact coast areas as far north as Rhode Island through Labor Day.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department reports employers added 151,000 jobs in August, a modest gain after an increase of 275,000 in July, the most in eight months, and 271,000 in June. The unemployment rate remained at 4.9 percent for a third straight month. Several surveys suggest that Americans are growing more optimistic about the job market, a trend that could boost spending and energize the economy in coming months.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A lawyer says that a trial over a North Carolina law governing transgender restroom access is being pushed back by several months. ACLU attorney James Esseks, who represents two transgender students and an employee of North Carolina's university system, says that a judge's order today means that the case is being pushed back from its November trial date until May.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina prosecutor says a sheriff's deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom after she refused to put away her cellphone. Solicitor Dan Johnson says he found no probable cause to charge former deputy Ben Fields. Fields was fired from the Richland County Sheriff's Department in October after students at Spring Valley High School recorded him flipping a girl to the floor and dragging her across a classroom. That girl and another who recorded Fields were charged. Those charges will be dropped.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has banned more than a dozen chemicals long-used in anti-bacterial soaps. The Food and Drug Administration says manufacturers failed to show that the chemicals are safe and kill germs. Limited animal research suggests that two ingredients - triclosan and triclocarban -- can interfere with hormone levels and spur drug-resistant bacteria. The FDA's drug center director says there's no scientific evidence that the products are any better than plain soap and water.
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