Two juveniles were killed Saturday evening when a tree fell on their home, the Transylvania County sheriff said.
The deaths at the home between Brevard and Cedar Mountain were weather-related, Sheriff Chuck Owenby said.
A storm system pushed through western North Carolina on Saturday night, and the National Weather Service issued a Wind Advisory for the southwestern North Carolina mountains earlier Saturday.
Plumes of smoke rose Saturday morning in the 300 block of East Morehead Street.
The regional airport is in eastern North Carolina about an hour and a half east of Raleigh.
Civil rights attorneys and family members held a press conference Friday regarding the October death of 31-year-old Tyrone Mason.
The trooper’s injuries were not life-threatening, but the other driver and a child passenger were taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
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