Month: March 2019

With four days between Nashville’s last game and Saturday’s matchup with the Carolina Hurricanes, Wayne Simmonds has been able to get to know some of his new Predators teammates. And some of the better lunch spots in town. Simmonds, a forward acquired from Philadelphia in a deadline-day deal last week, has already made a positive impression with Nick Bonino and Rocco Grimaldi, his new linemates and lunchmates. “You’re building camaraderie,” Simmonds told The Tennessean. “It’s…

There have certainly been worse games of hockey played at PNC Arena than what the Carolina Hurricanes perpetrated on Friday, but rarely when they had been playing as well as they have lately or been clinging precariously to a potential playoff spot. The latter condition hasn’t often been satisfied in recent years, which of course tends to limit the pool of candidates to start. It’s been so rare that the Hurricanes are this good, there…

RALEIGH, N.C. — Andrew Copp scored twice, Nikolaj Ahlers had a goal and two assists, and the Winnipeg Jets rode a four-goal first period to an 8-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night. Kevin Hayes, Blake Wheeler, Kyle Connor and Ben Chiarot each had a goal and an assist. Adam Lowry also scored as Winnipeg posted its largest victory of the season. The Jets scored three times in the first 10 minutes to…

There is no easy ride into the Stanley Cup playoffs. Winning the Stanley Cup is hard. But so, too, is getting a chance to play for the Cup. The Carolina Hurricanes will have a hard time getting that chance if they play more games as poorly as they did Friday against the Winnipeg Jets. The Canes were hammered 4-0 — in the first period — in an ugly 8-1 loss at PNC Arena. The Canes…

The Latest on a deadly tornado outbreak that killed 23 in Lee County, Alabama (all times local): 7:45 p.m. Nine-time NFL Pro Bowler DeMarcus Ware has made a $10,000 donation toward the funeral costs of the 23 victims of Sunday’s tornado that churned for about 70 miles (112 kilometers) from eastern Alabama into Georgia. WSFA-TV reports Alabama’s Lee County Coroner Bill Harris says the former Dallas Cowboys defensive end and Lee County native has committed…

Standing near the slab that’s all that is left of one family’s garage, President Donald Trump on Friday surveyed the devastation wrought by a powerful tornado that ripped through a rural Alabama town, uprooting trees, tearing homes from their foundations and killing nearly two dozen people. “We saw things that you wouldn’t believe,” said Trump, overlooking a debris field strewn with branches and other wreckage in Beauregard, which bore the brunt of Sunday’s storm. Mangled…

President Donald Trump traveled to Alabama Friday to survey areas devastated by deadly tornadoes earlier in the week. The president and first lady Melania Trump toured part of a devastated neighborhood and visited with families who had lost loved ones, visited a church that has been transformed into a disaster relief center — and stopped to sign Bibles given them by victims. The Trumps also took an aerial tour of the destruction and paid their…

President Trumpwas in Alabama Friday to survey areas devastated by deadly tornadoes earlier in the week. The president and first lady took an aerial helicopter tour of the destruction and were greeted on the ground in Auburn, Alabama, by the state’s governor and local officials. In addition to touring the damage, President Trump will meet with survivors and first responders, the White House said. “FEMA has been told directly by me to give the A…

LEE COUNTY, Ala. — President Donald Trump is visiting Lee County on Friday, the area where 23 people were killed, some of them children, when the deadliest U.S. tornado in nearly six years ripped through a rural Alabama community on Sunday. The tornado was an EF4 packing winds estimated at 170 mph (274 kph) and chewed a path of destruction up to nine-tenths of a mile (1.4 kilometers) wide in Alabama for nearly 27 miles…

LEE COUNTY, Ala. — President Donald Trump is visiting Lee County on Friday, the area where 23 people were killed, some of them children, when the deadliest U.S. tornado in nearly six years ripped through a rural Alabama community on Sunday. The tornado was an EF4 packing winds estimated at 170 mph (274 kph) and chewed a path of destruction up to nine-tenths of a mile (1.4 kilometers) wide in Alabama for nearly 27 miles…

President Trump is expected to visit Alabama on Friday to survey the areas devastated by deadly tornadoes. “FEMA has been told directly by me to give the A Plus treatment to the Great State of Alabama and the wonderful people who have been so devastated by the Tornadoes,” President Trump said in a tweet earlier this week. At least 23 people were killed when two tornadoes ripped through the small rural community of Beauregard, leaving…

By Emmy Victor, WRAL reporter Cary, N.C. — Assistance for victims of a deadly Alabama tornado continues to come from the Triangle. A powerful tornado struck a rural community Monday, killing at least 23 people. The Red Cross has three volunteers from the Triangle in Alabama. Two of them are providing disaster care to the tornado victims. The third is Grayson Randall from Cary. He drove down on Tuesday in an emergency connectivity vehicle that…

LEE COUNTY, Ala. — President Donald Trump is planning to visit Lee County on Friday, the area where 23 people were killed, some of them children, when the deadliest U.S. tornado in nearly six years ripped through a rural Alabama community on Sunday. The tornado was an EF4 packing winds estimated at 170 mph (274 kph) and chewed a path of destruction up to nine-tenths of a mile (1.4 kilometers) wide in Alabama for nearly…