Harris pledges support for North Carolina during visit to assess Helene damage

Yahoo News Before and after photos show Hurricane Helene's destructive power in western North Carolina The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene was especially extensive in western North Carolina, a region far from the Florida coast where the system made landfall as a Category 4 storm.

Yahoo News Helene shows that hurricanes in the age of climate change don't wreck just coastlines Unlike hurricanes that might ravage a coastline, push a few miles inland and eventually dissipate, Helene, in part because of its sheer size and the speed with which it was traveling North, ravaged inland parts of the country.

Yahoo Sports Apalachee High School plays first home football game since Sept. 4 shooting that killed 4 people Apalachee High School played its first home football game on Friday, one month after the Sept. 4 shooting in which two students and two teachers were killed.

Fisker's HQ abandoned in "complete disarray" with apparent hazardous waste, clay models left behind The headquarters Fisker used in its waning days was recently abandoned and left in "complete disarray," with drums of apparent hazardous waste, automotive equipment, and even vehicles and full-size clay models left behind, according to the landlord. The chaos was described in a new filing that was submitted to Fisker's Chapter 11 bankruptcy docket Friday afternoon by landlord Shamrock (La Palma) Properties II, LLC. Tony Lenzini, a representative for Shamrock, said in an attached declaration that the landlord "now faces tens of thousands of dollars in cleanup costs, damage repairs, and what appears to me to be hazardous waste removal."

What's in the rug? How TikTok got swept into a real-time true crime story This week's biggest drama on TikTok tells the story of a woman from Ohio who was building a fence in her yard, only to uncover a mysterious rug buried on her property. Viewers speculated that her home could be a potential murder scene, and suddenly, local content creator Katie Santry was at the center of her own real-life true crime story, unfolding video by video on TikTok. Before finding the rug, Santry had roughly 6,000 followers on TikTok, where she mostly shared content about her life as a mom, discussing challenging topics like pregnancy, miscarriages, and divorce.