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Rains flood states from Carolinas northward

By wire services
Published October 10, 2005

KEENE, N.H. - Hundreds of people were forced to evacuate their homes after a weekend of drenching rain washed out roads and flooded homes in states from North Carolina to New Hampshire.

At least three deaths were blamed on the storm.

New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch declared a state of emergency Sunday and called in 500 National Guard members to assist.

The most severe flooding in New Hampshire was in Keene, where some major roads were under as much as 4 to 6 feet of water, fire officials said. About 500 people were evacuated, and about 150 were staying at a shelter in a recreation center Sunday.

At least one person was killed in New Hampshire when a car went off a washed-out bridge in the town of Unity, said Pam Walsh, the governor's spokeswoman.

In Pennsylvania, a person died after a car struck a guardrail in Bucks County and flipped into a creek, trapping the driver. A car accident in New Jersey killed a 2-year-old boy, police said.

NEW YORK - A reported plot to bomb city subways with remote-controlled explosives has not been corroborated after days of investigation, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said Sunday.

Interrogations of suspects captured in Iraq last week after an informant's tip about bomb-laden suitcases and baby carriages have yet to yield evidence that the plot was real, officials said.

A Homeland Security memo said the attack might have been planned to take place on or around Sunday. The city has no immediate plans to pull extra officers out of the subway system or reduce the number of bag searches, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

STANFORD ROBOT WINS: Stanford University's robot racing team Sunday was declared the winner of $2-million in the Defense Department's Grand Challenge race to develop an autonomous vehicle that could become a model for battlefield robots. The team converted Volkswagen SUV named Stanley navigated a 131-mile course in the Nevada desert in 6 hours, 53 minutes and 58 seconds, beating Carnegie Mellon's second-place Sandstorm Humvee by almost 11 minutes.

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