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President Trump is taking the first trip of his term on Friday to North Carolina and California, visiting communities grappling with recovery from natural disasters.

A fire station burned down in North Carolina, destroying a truck bound for California wildfires, officials said. The blaze ravaged Mills River Fire Department’s Station No. 2 early Friday, Jan. 17, according to a spokesperson for Henderson County, North Carolina.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday, using the first trip of his second administration to tour areas where politics has clouded the response to deadly disasters.

Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo led all players in the final fan voting (4,435,266) to represent the Eastern Conference for the ninth time in his career. Denver Nuggets forward Nikola Jokić earned his seventh All-Star nod as the lead vote-getter in the Western Conference (3,724,344).

The online auction drew bidders from across the country, giving them the chance to bid on over 100 auction lots.

Colgate at Army, 6 p.m. American at Lafayette, 7 p.m. Charlotte at Temple, 7 p.m. Duquesne at Saint Joseph's, 7 p.m. Fordham at La Salle, 7 p.m. Houston at West Virginia, 7 p.m. Loyola (Md.) at Bucknell, 7 p.m. Navy at Lehigh, 7 p.m.

The University of Indianapolis announced today the appointment of Dr. Pamela Wimbush as inaugural Dean of UIndy Online and the Sease Institute. Wimbush, who currently serves as Associate Dean of Program Success and Organizational Excellence at California State University,

Dr. Pamela Wimbush will be the inaugural Dean of UIndy Online and the Sease Institute. Wimbush, who currently serves as associate dean of program success and organizational excellence at California State University, Sacramento, will begin at UIndy on Feb. 3, UIndy officials announced in a news release Tuesday.

As wildfires raged across Los Angeles, killing at least 24 people and destroying thousands of structures, some people sought to contrast emergency response to the fires to disaster response that followed deadly hurricanes that battered the southeastern U.

A 38-year-old man called 911 to report that he shot and killed his 80-year-old father, California sheriff’s officials reported. Deputies responding to the Santa Rosa home found Richard Molica dead on the living room floor from a gunshot wound at about 12:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

The relationship between the GOP president and California ... Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to fight fires. “I want two things,” Trump told reporters upon his arrival in Asheville, North Carolina.