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New York City, NY this week: AI-staged listing photos have become a pervasive deception in New York City’s rental market, luring apartment; and Covenant House New York, the city’s largest homeless-youth nonprofit, is facing accusations…

Illinois State University’s College of Engineering opens its new 28-acre facility, formerly a Country Financial site, for the 2026 fall semester.

World & Travel this week: Israeli settlers are running English-language recruitment tours in the West Bank, advertising hilltop outposts like; and The Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is the fastest-growing ever…

New Hanover County has approved a $6.5 million contract for the first infrastructure at the Holly Shelter Business Park, which will be renamed the I-40 Coastal Commerce Park.

Pawleys Island / Georgetown & Horry Counties, SC this week: Horry County Council unanimously passed an ordinance to impose impact fees on new developments, with rates ranging; and Horry County is finalizing a development agreement with…

World & Travel this week: The U.S. has resumed airstrikes against Iran after a temporary ceasefire collapsed, with both nations exchanging; and Hilton is terminating its management agreements for two Frankfurt hotels after the U.S.

Wilmington, NC and surrounding area this week: Lauren Collins’s new book, “They Stole a City,” revisits the 1898 Wilmington coup, the only successful coup in U.

Jones-Onslow EMC restored power to approximately 2,000 members in Onslow County, North Carolina, after an outage caused by repairs at the AC Morton Substation. Crews worked through the night to complete the restoration.

Pawleys Island / Georgetown & Horry Counties, SC this week: Horry County’s housing market is sending mixed signals: a new state law fast-tracks evictions for owners, a tennis; and A large crane collapsed into the Cooper River near the…