Forecasters are warning about the possibility of flash floods across the South as Alberto slowly makes its way across the country. The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season made landfall over the holiday weekend as a subtropical storm, lashing the Florida panhandle with heavy rain and gusty winds. A television anchorman and a photojournalist covering the storm died Monday when a tree uprooted and crashed onto their SUV. North Carolina Gov.

Starbucks will close its more than 8,000 U.S. locations Tuesday afternoon for diversity training. The unusual move is designed to help restore the coffee chain’s image after employees at a Philadelphia location called police on two African-American men who sat down without ordering anything. The men said they were waiting for a business contact. All 175,000 Starbucks employees will take the “unconscious bias training,” a curriculum that focuses on prejudice people might not realize they have.

The Indiana middle school teacher hailed as a hero for stopping a shooting Friday spoke briefly to reporters Monday, encouraging people to focus attention on the student still in critical condition at an Indianapolis hospital. Jason Seaman suffered three gunshot wounds but didn’t have serious injuries. He left the hospital Saturday. Students in his science classroom said he tackled and disarmed the student gunman, preventing further bloodshed.

Heavy rain in Maryland over the weekend triggered flash floods that roared through a community devastated less than two years ago by another flood. Sunday’s flooding swept through historic downtown Ellicott City, set along the west bank of Maryland's Patapsco River and about 13 miles west of Baltimore. “They say this is a once every 1,000-year flood and we've had two of them in two years,” Gov. Larry Hogan said.

President Donald Trump late Saturday welcomed to the White House a Utah man held without trial in a Venezuelan jail for two years. Venezuelan officials said they freed 26-year-old Joshua Holt in a goodwill gesture to promote dialogue and mutual respect between the two antagonistic governments. Holt had traveled to Caracas in 2016 to marry a fellow Mormon he met online while trying to improve his Spanish.

A leading Irish pro-life group admitted defeat Saturday in its effort to keep the country’s protections for unborn children. Two exit polls taken Friday indicate about 70 percent of voters opted to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the country’s constitution, which granted unborn babies the same legal rights as their mothers. The law effectively prevented all abortions except when the mother’s life was in danger.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveled to a border village Saturday to meet South Korean leader Moon Jae-in, the second time in a month the two leaders have held face-to-face talks. As they did before, Kim and Moon discussed the planned denuclearization summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, but they also talked about ways to continue their own peace initiatives if the meeting doesn’t happen.