Month: April 2019

Carolina Hurricanes Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour following loss to Washington Capitals: ‘We were bad from start to finish’ By April 20, 2019 11:45 PM Rod Brind’Amour addresses the media following the Hurricanes 6-0 loss to the Washington Capitals

By Joe Fisher, WRAL multimedia journalist, and Alfred Charles, WRAL.com managing editor Edgecombe County, N.C. — The National Weather Service on Saturday confirmed that tornadoes touched down in several central North Carolina counties as a line of powerful storms rolled through the region Friday evening. According to a bulletin published by the weather service shortly before 11 p.m., confirmed tornadoes were reported in: Chatham, Johnson, Sampson, northern Moore, Orange, northern Edgecombe and Halifax. No deaths…

Washington Capitals’ Brooks Orpik (44) checks Carolina Hurricanes’ Warren Foegele (13) to the ice during the first period during game five of their first round Stanley Cup series game on Saturday, April 20, 2018 at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com WASHINGTON They heard footsteps everywhere. Warren Foegele at the blue line, Dougie Hamilton behind the net, everyone else all over the place. The Carolina Hurricanes got hit out of this one,…

Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom (19), of Sweden, celebrates his goal with right wing Devante Smith-Pelly, left, during the second period of Game 5 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series against the Carolina Hurricanes, Saturday, April 20, 2019, in Washington. Nick Wass AP Photo WASHINGTON Nicklas Backstrom needed five games to match his goal output from the entire 2018 playoffs, and he and Alex Ovechkin have the defending Stanley Cup champion Capitals one victory…

WASHINGTON (WTVD) — The Washington Capitals took down the Carolina Hurricanes 6-0 in game five of the playoffs on Saturday. The Capitals now lead the series against the Hurricanes 3-2. The next game is set to be played back in Raleigh on Monday. The full first-round schedule can be viewed here. If the Canes win on Monday, they will go back to Washington on Wednesday for the final game of the first round. Copyright ©…

Carolina Hurricanes Hurricanes battle Capitals: Game 5 By April 20, 2019 10:36 PM Check out photos from game 5 of the Carolina Hurricanes NHL Stanley Cup playoff game against the Washington Capitals Saturday night, April 20, 2019.

By Richard Adkins, WRAL photojournalist Kinston, N.C. — We left Kinston knowing storms were brewing. With most of eastern North Carolina under threat of severe weather, we kept our eyes on the radar and weather pages. It was a few hours into our trip when hard rain hit. We pulled to the bank and waited out the heavy rain for a few minutes. It didn’t last long, and we were under way among the sprinkles….

Weather News Gov. Roy Cooper tours storm damage in Hillsborough, NC By April 20, 2019 03:33 PM NC Gov. Roy Cooper tours Maple View Farm in Hillsborough April 20, the day after strong storms and tornadoes swept through the region and caused damage.

Carolina Hurricanes’ Sebastian Aho (20) battles for the puck with Washington’s Nick Jensen (3) in the first period on Monday, April 15, 2019 at the PNC Arena on Raleigh, N.C. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com WASHINGTON Aleski Saarela said Saturday morning he planned to go to lunch with fellow Finns Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen to get a crash course in not merely playoff hockey but NHL hockey, but the rookie making his league debut five games…

Carolina Hurricanes Carolina Hurricanes’ Andrei Svechnikov talks for the first time about his fight with Alex Ovechkin: ‘I am not superhero’ By April 20, 2019 02:05 PM Svechnikov who was sidelined this week with a concussion following the fight with Ovechkin talks with the media, he hopes to play in game six.

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. Electricity has been restored for nearly all of the thousands of Minnesota residents who lost power after a late winter storm that pummeled power lines with ice, snow and 50-mph winds. But state officials are bracing for the recovery costs as utilities and local governments tally up their expenses from the blizzard last week. Minnesota Public Radio News reports that roughly 2,000 utility poles were damaged across southern Minnesota, leaving more than 15,000…