Reuters: A stretch of a major East Coast highway closed for more than a week by historic rains in South Carolina began reopening on Monday, as many schools resumed classes and state crews picked up debris in several hard-hit areas.
Traffic flowed again on the southbound lanes of a 13-mile (21 km) section of Interstate 95 that officials shut down on Oct. 4 after floodwaters swamped portions of the road and damaged bridges.
The closure required motorists to take a detour more than twice as long as the...