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OCRACOKE, N.C. — When Hurricane Dorian pounded the wisp of earth that is Ocracoke Island, a wall of Atlantic seawater flooded Bob Chestnut’s home, surf shop and four vehicles. Seven months later, his shop was ready for business.

ATLANTA — The Atlanta-based rap artist known as Lil Marlo has died, his record label said Sunday.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 19-25. July 19: Actress Helen Gallagher (“Ryan’s Hope”) is 94. Country singer Sue Thompson is 94. Singer Vikki Carr is 80. Musician Commander Cody is 76. Actor George Dzundza (“Hack,” “Law and Order”) is 75.

NEW YORK — New fiction from Andre Aciman, Tayari Jones and Rufi Thorpe will be available this summer as audiobooks only.

NEW YORK — A top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller has a book coming out this fall about the two-year investigation into the alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.

NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead keeps winning awards. Already this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction, Whitehead is now being honoured by the Library of Congress.

A reader recently reached out after his elderly mother died, asking how soon he could distribute the $10,000 she had earmarked in her will for each of her two grandchildren.

LOS ANGELES — The son of Lisa Marie Presley has died. He was 27. Presley’s representative Roger Widynowski said in a statement Sunday to The Associated Press that she was “heartbroken” after learning about the death of her son Benjamin Keough.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Although most North Carolina universities — including Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C.

LOS ANGELES — The search to find “Glee" TV show star Naya Rivera in a Southern California lake ended Saturday without any results, authorities said.