Matthew Weakens Rapidly After Killing Nearly 1,000 in Caribbean

A weakened Hurricane Matthew neared the end of its weeklong charge through Caribbean islands and along the U.S. Atlantic Coast on Saturday after killing nearly 1,000 people, most of them in Haiti. The storm also flattened communities and wrecked agriculture in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas. Late Saturday, the hurricane's center was 85 kilometers off Cape Fear, North Carolina, moving slowly away from the coast in a twisting path that was taking it well east...

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