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Appalachian Floods Kill at Least 16 as Rescue Teams Deploy

JACKSON, Ky.—Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky’s governor said 16 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling. “We’ve still got a lot of…


83-Year-Old Man From Alabama Becomes the Oldest to Trek the Appalachian Trail

An 83-year-old man from Alabama started walking when he retired more than a quarter-century ago—and has never stopped. M.J. “Sunny” Eberhart strode into the record books as the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail. Eberhart, known by the trail name Nimblewill Nomad, acknowledged that despite having tens of thousands of miles under his belt,…