Month: November 2018

Trevor van Riemsdyk and Justin Williams scored 22 seconds apart in the first period, sending the Carolina Hurricanes to a 5-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night. Curtis McElhinney made 30 saves as Carolina snapped Toronto’s four-game winning streak. Micheal Ferland scored his 11th of the season with 12:15 remaining, a power-play goal that put the Hurricanes ahead 3-1. Teuvo Teravainen assisted on the play. Kasperi Kapanen answered for Toronto with 8:05…

The Toronto media swarmed about Carolina Hurricanes goalie Curtis McElhinney after the morning skate Wednesday, which was understandable. The Canes were hosting the Toronto Maple Leafs and the best storyline was McElhinney, who was facing the team that put him on waivers in early October. “It should be a fun challenge,” McElhinney said. “They have so many weapons and it certainly will be a challenge. The biggest thing for us is to get out to…

Amy Sheppard packs her belongings into a plastic garbage bag as rain drips around her, readying to move on from a field by a Walmart where thousands of evacuees had taken refuge from a deadly Northern California wildfire. Sheppard, 38, her sister and niece, who is 1, are looking to move into a dry hotel after camping in the field for four days. They lost their home in Magalia and the jewelry-maker tears up as…

The Latest on California wildfires (all times local): 6:10 p.m. A California sheriff says two more sets of human remains were found Wednesday, bringing death toll from a wildfire to 83. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea says more than 560 names remain on the missing list. Authorities stressed that many of the people on the list may be safe and unaware they have been reported missing. The blaze that started Nov. 8 leveled Paradise, destroying…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — On Wednesday, former Carolina Hurricanes forward Erik Cole and the team’s mascot, Stormy, stopped by the Raleigh Rescue Mission and the Helping Hand Mission to deliver turkeys. A large Hurricanes semi-truck and the team’s “Storm Chaser” accompanied Cole and family members of current players as they delivered boxes of turkeys just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. “We love the Hurricanes and we love their commitment to the community,” said Raleigh Rescue…

After Hurricane Florence, bags of dead oysters hung in the trees near Jimmy Morris’ oyster farm and hatchery. Florence ransacked his Morris Family Shellfish Farms in Sealevel, north of Beaufort and Morehead City. Pummeling winds, historic flooding and power outages killed a year’s worth of shellfish seed, the early stage for 10 million oysters and 5 million clams, plus the better part of 1,000 cages of market oysters. “There were oysters everywhere,” Morris said after…

North Carolina oyster farmers work to recover from Hurricane Florence months after the storm By November 21, 2018 03:00 PM The Morris Family Shellfish Farm in Sea Level, NC suffered extensive damaged to their hatchery and mature oysters during Hurricane Florence.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — Thousands of North Carolinians this week see Thanksgiving as a welcome reprieve from their bleak realities of recovering from Hurricane Florence, the record-breaking storm that battered the south and east of the state. More than two months after Florence, the cleanup remains far from over; hundreds of homes and businesses remain off-limits, and debris piles still line many streets. State and federal officials also tell ABC11 that more than $1 billion…