By MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press GALIVANTS FERRY, S.C. With muddy river water still washing over entire communities on Friday, eight days after Hurricane Florence slammed into land with nearly 3 feet of rain, new evacuation orders forced residents to flee to higher ground amid a sprawling disaster that’s beginning to feel like it will never end. At least 42 people have died, included an elderly man whose body was found in a…

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (WTVD) — Dogs from Eastern North Carolina that escaped the fury of Florence are in the Triangle and are ready for fur-ever homes.Saving Grace Animals for Adoption spent time prior to Hurricane Florence working with shelters on the coast to ensure stray animals had a safe place and future opportunity to be adopted. The dogs here were strays. Shelters needed to be cleared for fear of flooding or to make room for…

On September 23rd, the Texas-based jewelry chain Kendra Scott will donate 50 percent of all online proceeds from a 24-hour period to the North Carolina and South Carolina diaper banks to support Hurricane Florence relief efforts. Donations will help provide basic necessities, such as diapers, formula, and more to families affected by the natural disaster. “Our hearts are with those who have been impacted by Hurricane Florence,” says CEO, Philanthropist, and Designer Kendra Scott. “As…

As someone who grew up in eastern North Carolina, Carolina Panthers defensive end Julius Peppers knows firsthand the devastation a natural disaster can cause. And while Peppers was still young when Hurricane Hugo rolled through in 1989, he knows how damaging a storm can be. So last weekend, even as the Panthers traveled to Atlanta to face the Falcons, Peppers kept his eye on how Hurricane Florence was impacting not only Charlotte, but also the…

J. Cole’s inaugural Dreamville Festival, a major multi-act concert, has a new date. The new date is April 6, 2019, at Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park, organizers said Friday, and it will benefit hurricane victims in the Carolinas. Cole will headline the festival, as he had planned to when it was supposed to debut Saturday, Sept. 15, as the first major concert at Dix Park. The lineup of performers will be announced at a later date….

Hurricane floodwaters have been sucking coffins out of the ground at Goldsboro’s Elmwood Cemetery for more than 20 years, so city officials decided to try something new as Hurricane Florence neared the coast Friday. Their solution involved sandbags: Not to keep the flood water out, but to keep the coffins down. More than 1,200 sandbags were piled atop 200 graves “prone to displacement,” Goldsboro cemetery director Timothy Irving told North Carolina Health News. It worked,…

The Carolina Hurricanes have reduced their roster to 39 players in preseason training camp, assigning eight players Friday to the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL. The players assigned were forwards Steven Lorentz, Cliff Pu, Aleksi Saarela and Spencer Smallman; defensemen Josiah Didier, Michael Fora and Josh Wesley, and goaltender Jeremy Helvig. The Checkers’ training camp begins Monday at Bojangles’ Coliseum in Charlotte. Among the players invited to the Checkers camp is Trevor Owens, a Raleigh…