A Southern Pines woman died Saturday after, authorities say, she drove around the barricades on a section of Interstate 40 closed near the North Carolina-Tennessee line. According to North Carolina State Highway Patrol,

A tropical depression is likely to form in the Caribbean and could become a tropical storm or hurricane once it reaches the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico next week, forecasters say. Once it has a center, meteorologists will be better able to determine the storm’s possible paths. AccuWeather

A new tropical disturbance that recently formed in the western Caribbean Sea less than three weeks before the official end of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has a "very good chance" of becoming a late-season storm known as Tropical Storm Sara,