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The Environmental Protection Agency will soon strengthen lead in drinking water regulations. Lead levels have dropped drastically over the last several decades. Lead in drinking water has improved, too, but it’s remained a stubborn problem. Lead in tap water is difficult to regulate and advocates had to push hard to enact the first set of comprehensive rules in the early 1990s. Those rules helped but didn’t prevent crisis in Washington D.C., Flint, Michigan, and other communities. So...

Students at Union Preparatory Academy in Indian Trail had to go home abruptly Tuesday morning after an “unknown substance” was discovered.