People living in one North Carolina county are still without power three days after two power substations were damaged by gunfire.

According to poweroutage.us, more than 37,000 Moore County residents are still without power as of early Tuesday afternoon.

The outages began just after 7 p.m. Saturday after someone pulled up and opened fire on the substations, which are owned by Duke Energy, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said Sunday at a news conference, the Associated Press reported.

In response to the outages, a state of emergency was announced, including a curfew from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday, the Associated Press reported.

Moore County Schools, which was closed Monday, remained closed Tuesday, the district said in a tweet.

Fields said the incident is being investigated as a criminal act, adding that "it was targeted," the news outlet reported.

CINCINNATI — Duke Energy Kentucky will increase its rates by more than 6% starting in January.

The Kentucky Public Service Commission issued an order Dec. 28 approving new rates for Duke Energy Kentucky customers. The average resident will see an approximate 6.27% increase in monthly natural gas bills with increases depending on the customer's rate class, the market price of natural gas and the amount of natural gas used.

The order applies to 102,000 natural gas customers in Boone, Campbell, Grant, Kenton, Bracken, Gallatin and Pendleton counties. It does not impact electric rates.

Duke Energy Kentucky filed an application to increase its base rates by 13.66% in June. A rate agreement was reached in October, and public meetings were held to get customer input before the PSC issued its order authorizing about $9.17 million increase.

“We appreciate the PSC and the Kentucky Attorney General for giving such thoughtful consideration to our customers and to the investments we’ve made to keep our system safe and reliable for decades to come,” said Amy Spiller, president of Duke Energy Ohio and Kentucky, in a release. “We have managed our costs to operate and maintain the system nearly flat for more than a decade, and we continue to focus on helping our customers better manage their energy usage and reduce their bills.”

Duke Energy Kentucky does not earn any profit from the increase. For more information on the order, click here.

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UPS is delivering more than packages to Capitol Hill.

New campaign finance records show UPS giving to lawmakers who voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election.

The donations were made after UPS paused political spending in the days following the Jan. 6 insurrection.

"Many of those companies just pulled away: Washington’s burning down, let’s not give any more fuel to it, at least not initially," said Douglas Schuler, an associate professor of business and public policy at Rice University. 

Companies froze campaign donations to avoid heat for funding people who promoted the baseless idea that President Biden didn’t actually win the election, Schuler said.

“A lot of people started asking, Who is behind those members of Congress?” he said.

Newsy reviewed recent filings at the Federal Election Commission and found 16 corporations sending money to Congress again, including to some of the 147 Republican election objectors.

The list includes Ford, General Motors, JetBlue and Lockheed Martin.

Like UPS, they are companies that announced a temporary stop in contributions to all lawmakers after the Capitol riot.

The donations come from employee-sponsored Political Action Committees known as PACs.

UPS reported giving to two Republican election dissenters in a flurry of new PAC donations that also went to Democrats.  UPS never said why it stopped donating after the insurrection and did not respond to questions about why the PAC chose to support election opponents now.

Boeing took a time-out to review political spending in January "to ensure that we support those who not only support our company, but also uphold our country’s most fundamental principles."

Now a new FEC filing shows Boeing’s PAC spending again to Democrats and Republicans, including four who challenged the election.

We asked Boeing: Who would the company not support anymore after its review?

“Thanks for the question,” a Boeing spokesman responded, "but nothing additional to add beyond the statement,” referring to an initial response from the company that said in part, “We will continue to carefully evaluate our giving…”

Cigna said it would no longer donate specifically to lawmakers who encouraged or supported violence, or who "otherwise hindered the peaceful transition of power."

But FEC filings show, two months later Cigna donated to seven members of Congress who tried to prevent certifying the election.

When Newsy asked Cigna about those donations, a spokeswoman referred us to a company statement that said voting against the election was not an act of obstructing a peaceful transition of power.

The FEC records show the companies still not giving to some of the most vocal election skeptics.

"[Missouri Sen. Josh] Hawley with his fist, that was like a very powerful symbol," Schuler said. "There might be a little more attention on those people."

Duke Energy, one of the nation’s largest electric companies, is contributing again to a number of home state representatives, but not to Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who the PAC backed in the 2020 election cycle.

That was before the North Carolina congressman spoke to the crowd of Trump supporters just before the Capitol attack.

The FEC records show companies are slowly returning to the long tradition of donating to both parties, focusing on congressional leaders and committee chairpersons, those most able to shape policies the corporations care about. 

It’s a practice Duke Energy’s CEO defended at a recent shareholders meeting.

"We must be a part of the conversation so that we can bring our subject matter, expertise, our experience, the needs of our customers to the table, and we’ll continue to do that," Duke Energy chair, president and CEO Lynn Good said. 

EDEN, N.C. —

The body of a fourth tuber has been found in a North Carolina river following a deadly accident in which a family on a recreational float went over a dam, local officials said Sunday.

The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a news release that Isiah Crawford, 7, was the person who was found in the Dan River.

Another tuber, Teresa Villano, 35, is still missing. The search for her continued on Sunday, including near the Virginia state line, officials said.

Emergency Services Director Rodney Cates said officials knew it was likely the victims could surface overnight Sunday as a result of increased river flow with the release of water from Belews Lake.

Emergency services officials said they continue to "stand firmly behind the decision made [Saturday] to suspend search efforts until we had new leads upon which to search."

Two watercraft searched for Villano again Sunday morning with no results. Another search was conducted near the Virginia state line, which was also unsuccessful.

Emergency Services Director, Rodney Cates said the agency's thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and families of the tragic incident.

Cates thanked the first responders from multiple agencies who assisted with the search operation. He also thanked the community for their support during the operation.

Authorities said nine people were floating on the water on the Dan River Wednesday evening when they went over the dam near the Duke Energy facility.

But emergency officials said it wasn’t until around 3 p.m. Thursday that they received a 911 phone call from a Duke Energy employee. Emergency crews rescued four people out of the water Thursday who were taken to the hospital. Page said they had a floatation device with them when they were rescued from the water.

"I can't imagine going over the dam and I can't imagine being down there from dark on Wednesday, 8:30, nine at night, to yesterday at 3:30 or four o’clock in the afternoon. That's got to be tough. I can't imagine that," Page said.

Emergency crews rescued 35-year-old Rueben Villano, 14-year-old Eric Villano, 18-year-old Irene Villano, and 14-year-old Karlos Villano who were clinging to the dam in the river authorities said. Later that night, the bodies of 27-year-old Bridish Crawford, 30-year-old Antonio Ramon and 14-year-old Sophie Wilson were recovered.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.