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At one Cherry Hill nursing home, a quarter of the residents have contracted the coronavirus and 11 people have died. Nine miles away in Burlington County, another facility is battling the virus that has infected at least 54 people. Eight have died. And one company that operates long-term-care facilities across the country has reported 263…

MONTGOMERY, Ala.— High winds, hail and heavy rain pounded parts of Alabama on Sunday, as forecasters warned residents to brace for possible tornadoes and flooding across a wide swatch of the southern United States.Tornado watches covered a swath of east Texas and large parts of Louisiana and Mississippi on Sunday afternoon. More than 24,000 customers…

The threat zone includes areas ravaged by tornadoes on Easter Andrew FreedmanEditor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. April 19 at 1:05 PM For the second Sunday in a row, the South is bracing for an outbreak of severe weather, including widespread damaging winds, tornadoes (some strong), hail and torrential rainfall.…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Tens of millions of people in the South are facing a severe weather threat one week after tornadoes killed at least 36 people across the region.The National Weather Services' Storm Prediction Center said tornadoes and severe thunderstorms are expected from late Sunday morning into the overnight hours."Another Sunday that we…

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