Lithium-ion battery production complex to bring 2,000 jobs to Southside Virginia and more headlines

The state Capitol. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury)

• "Project powers 2,000-plus jobs for Danville, Pittsylvania County, $1.35 billion investment."— Danville Register and Bee

• "VB leaders frustrated with Something in the Water organizers, threaten to pull plug on festival."— WTKR

• "Richmond homeowners will get a tax rebate check next year."— Axios Richmond

• "Helene's wrath in southwest Virginia could last for 8 years."— WAVY

• "The mysterious Virginia mansion allegedly bought with stolen Nigerian money."— Washington Post

Potential Tropical Cyclone 19 formed in the Caribbean on Wednesday afternoon and is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Sara on Thursday. Hurricane Watches have been posted for parts of Honduras with Tropical Storm Watches in northern Nicaragua. The NHC says Potential Tropical Cyclone 19 will continue to move westward toward the western Caribbean Sea, and Jamaica should see showers and thunderstorms associated with the system throughout the next day.

San Diego River Park Foundation and the City of San Diego have cleared out an encampment near SeaWorld Drive to ensure those living there had somewhere to go before it was cleared. Though the outreach was covered by the grant, the city would ultimately foot the bill for the cleanup of more than 155,000 pounds of trash.

Today on Tracking the Tropics, we'll have the latest on a disturbance in the Caribbean that is likely to form in the coming days. The show streams live at 12:30 p.m. ET on WFLA.com and the WFLA app.

On the edge of Peru's coastal desert, a remote fishing town where a third of all residents have no running water is being transformed into a huge deep-water port to cash in on the inexorable rise of Chinese interest in resource-rich South America. The megaport of Chancay, a $1.3 billion project majority-owned by the Chinese shipping giant Cosco, is turning this outpost of bobbing fishing boats into an important node of the global economy. China's President Xi Jinping inaugurates the port Thursday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Peru.

A powerful dust storm known as a haboob caused a vehicle pile-up on a central California highway, sending several people to hospitals with minor injuries, authorities said. An enormous rolling cloud of dust reduced visibility Monday afternoon on State Route 152 in Madera County, causing motorists to crash into one another, according to the California Highway Patrol. About 20 cars were involved in the accident, the highway patrol said.

During a contentious meeting in Hunt Valley, residents of Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick counties voiced their opposition to a 70-mile power transmission line proposed by PSEG, a New-Jersey based energy company. Greeting visitors to the Embassy Suites by Hilton, where the meeting was held Tuesday, was a large sign bearing the words: "Don't Pillage Our Land." Protesters held signs reading ...