Oct. 14 (UPI) -- A suspect has been arrested and charged with threatening Federal Emergency Management Agency workers over the weekend that forced the federal agency to pause Hurricane Helene assistance operations in some North Carolina counties.

Officials say federal disaster workers paused and then changed some of their hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina, including abandoning door-to-door visits, after receiving threats.

Exactly how many people have died across the southeast is impossible to say as the Hurricane Helene death toll continues to mount.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday confirmed 92 people from North Carolina are still missing nearly three weeks after Hurricane Helene—the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Katrina in 2005—swept the Southeast, killing hundreds and leaving an unknown number of people still unaccounted for across the region. Cooper’s update comes days after officials in North Carolina, the state hit hardest by Helene, said they were still working to total the number of missing person reports received by various agencies during the storm. The governor said “significant progress” has been made by first responders working on recovery efforts—Rutherford County officials, for example, said more than 1,100 people initially reported missing have been located and confirmed safe—but that work is continuing. In Buncombe County, home to the hard-hit city of Asheville, roughly 20 public school children remained unaccounted for Monday, Superintendent Rob Jackson told the Asheville Citizen-Times. More than 220 people…

An armed North Carolina man was arrested after it was reported that he had made comments about “possibly harming FEMA employees” involved in hurricane relief efforts in the state, authorities said.

Officials say federal disaster workers have resumed door-to-door visits as part of hurricane recovery efforts in North Carolina.

The small town of Swannanoa was one of the hardest hit by Hurricane Helene, but barely any reconstruction is happening.

William Jacob Parsons was arrested and charged in North Carolina after he was found with a handgun and a rifle at a supermarket where a federal aid vehicle was parked.

A progressive policy group in North Carolina was among those expressing alarm on Sunday as news spread that federal emergency workers were forced to evacuate an area hit hard by Hurricane Helene late last month after officials warned that "armed militias" were "hunting" hurricane response teams. But...