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With an unfortunate and untimely fraying of collagen and elastin, what had been a near-perfect summer for the Carolina Hurricanes took a dramatic turn for the worse. The caveat on Max Pacioretty, obtained from the cap-caught Vegas Golden Knights for the princely sum of nothing, was that he was the elite finisher the Hurricanes so desperately needed if he could stay healthy. If. He didn’t even ...

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Being named a full-time driver in the NASCAR Cup Series was such a big deal that Noah Gragson even got a haircut for the occasion. “They made me cut it,” the Las Vegas native said Wednesday after being announced as the new driver of the Petty GMS No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro for the 2023 season, replacing Ty Dillon as veteran Eric Jones’ teammate. “They always say don’t change, but then they want ...

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A kayaker was found dead in a bayou after his father noticed his kayak was overturned, Louisiana police said. The kayaker was identified as 28-year-old David Anderson, according to WGNO. Anderson’s father called police at 10 p.m. Aug. 9 once he spotted the kayak flipped in the Doubloon Bayou in Slidell just behind his home, but his son was nowhere to be found, according to a news release from ...

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Aug. 10—GUILFORD COUNTY — A 63-year-old pedestrian was hit and killed along Interstate 73 early Wednesday, and law enforcement investigators are searching for a car that left after striking the man. Terry Joe Simmons of Greensboro was walking south along I-73 near the Interstate 85 northbound off-ramp in Guilford County shortly before 3 a.m. when a car traveling south struck Simmons, the N.C. ...

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Cary police are searching for a woman and her 5-year-old daughter after finding a vehicle the mother was driving, according to a news release. Cary police said Wednesday afternoon they’re looking for Crystal Walston, 38, and her daughter, Amani Jada Bruce. They were last seen in the 100 block of Rosedown Drive, a street not far from the intersection of NE Maynard Drive and Harrison Avenue. At ...

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New 911 calls released Wednesday reveal how the Triangle region’s emergency responders quickly mobilized to begin searching for a co-pilot who had reportedly jumped from a plane before it made an emergency landing at North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Just before 3 p.m. on July 30, Cary 911 received its first call from Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center alerting ...

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Aug. 10—The Milford Little League softball team fell to Maryland in the opening game of the Little League World Series Wednesday in Greenville, N.C. Kinsley Rayne's bases-loaded single to left field drove in Averi Naugle with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning. Naugle singled to lead off the extra inning, then stole second before back-to-back walks loaded the bases. Milford, ...

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WASHINGTON — As political reaction reached a boil over the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Mitch McConnell was standing in Eastern Kentucky attending to the aftermath of calamitous flooding there. McConnell initially offered no comment on the legal predicament of his nemesis. But saying nothing only stoked Trump allies with frustration, suspicion and ...

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A DMV license plate office run by the CEO of a medical testing company and once renowned for offering cupcakes along with license tags, has been closed due to “several contract violations,” the state says. The Division of Motor Vehicles closed the license plate agency at 408 Village Walk Drive in Holly Springs on Wednesday. In a letter to the operators of the office Wednesday, Portia Manley, ...

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WASHINGTON — The United States knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government has held Austin Tice, a reporter and former U.S. Marine missing in Syria since 2012, and is asking for its help bringing him home, President Joe Biden said in a statement on Wednesday. Tice disappeared in Syria in August 2012 — a decade ago this week — while covering the war as a freelance journalist for ...