NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Irene began lashing the East Coast with rain Friday ahead of a weekend of violent weather that was almost certain to heap punishment on a vast stretch of shoreline from the Carolinas to Massachusetts....
By MITCH WEISS, Associated Press
Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:35am
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Irene began lashing the East Coast with rain Friday ahead of a weekend of violent weather that was almost certain to heap punishment on a vast stretch of shoreline from the Carolinas to Massachusetts....