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About 40,000 have been left without drinkable water.

Rainfall records were shattered in many areas, and six deaths have been attributed to the inclement weather.

Reports indicated there were about 2 feet of water on the two-lane road.

Early Sunday, emergency management officials sent a statewide alert telling people to stay off roads and remain indoors unless their homes were in danger of flooding. Power was knocked out to about 50,000 residences and businesses in the two states as of early yesterday.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in Columbia”, Wukela, who has lived in the city since 2006, said.

Emergency officials said there were about 140 water rescues in Dorchester overnight.

U.S. Coast Guard pilots searched for a third day for the cargo ship El Faro and its 33 mostly American crew members after it went missing in the eye of Hurricane Joaquin as it passed over the Bahamas on Thursday. The company that owns the ship said a container that appears to...

Coast Guard officials in Miami said the rescue took place Thursday evening as the area experienced heavy weather caused by Hurricane Joaquin. Driving to work in drizzling rain, Bishop saw several high-water areas near train underpasses in town but didn’t have to alter his...

Three people died on Friday and Saturday in traffic incidents in South Carolina, and a vehicle passenger died in North Carolina on Thursday when a tree fell on Interstate 95, officials said.

The latest on drenching storms threatening the East Coast.

As for comparing to Clemson’s schedule, the Tigers do play a lower-level FCS school (Wofford), but their other three non-conference games against Appalachian State (now FBS in the Sun Belt), Notre Dame and South Carolina measures up with the Irish’s three non-Power...

Associated Press video journalist Tony Winton in Miami contributed to this report, along with Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, and AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein in Washington. “Freeport, Grand Bahama, Eleuthera and other tourist areas are...

Once the rain ends, the threat of flooding persists because the ground is too saturated to absorb water, meteorologists said.

Even so, the EIA reports that heavy rain, strong winds and possible flooding could threaten electric infrastructure throughout the mid-Atlantic states. The US Hurricane Center upgraded Joaquin to a Category 4 at 2 p.m. on Thursday, calling the storm “extremely risky”.

While it may still be too early to talk about specifics of this storm, it is not too early to prepare for the affects a hurricane like this could have on East Coast distributors. Otherwise, residents should stay at home and off roads. It began moving northward later in the day,...