Hurricane Erin began strengthening again Wednesday as it crept closer to the mid-Atlantic coast, its outer bands brushing North Carolina’s Outer Banks as beaches closed across much of the U.S. East ...

A powerful and sprawling Hurricane Erin continued lashing hundreds of miles of coastline along the Eastern Seaboard with its outer bands Thursday morning, proving a storm of such size doesn't need to ...

As of Wednesday afternoon Erin was deemed a category 2 hurricane, with winds up to 110 mph. It was about 400 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, moving north-northwest at 10 mph.