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By JEFF AMY PENSACOLA, N.C. (AP) — The search for victims of Hurricane Helene dragged into its second week on Friday, as exhausted rescue crews and volunteers continued to work long days — navigating past washed out roads, downed power lines and mudslides — to reach the isolated and the missing. “We know these are hard times, but please know we’re coming,” Sheriff Quentin Miller of Buncombe County, North Carolina, said at a Thursday evening press briefing. “We’re coming to get you. We’re coming to pick up our people.” With at least 215 killed, Helene is already the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina in 2005, and dozens or possibly hundreds of people are still unaccounted for. Roughly half the victims were in North Carolina, while dozens more were killed in South Carolina and Georgia. In Buncombe County alone, 72 people had been confirmed dead as of Thursday evening, Miller said. Buncombe includes the tourist hub of Asheville, the region’s most populous city. Still, the sheriff holds out hope that many of the missing are alive. His message to them? “Your safety

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SANTA CLARA – A month ahead of the NFL’s trade deadline, ever-active general manager John Lynch did not shoot down the possibility of a deal for Davante Adams, the Raiders’ disgruntled wide receiver and an East Palo Alto native. Lynch, however, did not confirm a NFL Network report that the 49ers are in the mix of potential trade partners. “Shoot, we like our group,” Lynch said Friday on his weekly segment on KNBR 680-AM. “Davante is a hell of a player. One thing we’ve shown is we’re always looking, we’re never afraid to look and see what’s out there. We’re never afraid to pull the trigger. “Coming in this year, we feel our roster is in pretty good spot,” Lynch continued. “We have endured some injuries. But we will never say never, but it’s got to work for both sides. It’s got to work for us. I’m not going to comment on any specific player but we like where our roster is at.” Salary cap ramifications are likely too prohibitive for the 49ers (2-2) to try outbidding potential suitors such as the New York Jets

Former President Donald Trump is making his return to the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, for a rally on Saturday — a moment the campaign hopes will spur inspiration among his fervent supporters as they come together to honor the victims who died during the July shooting. “I’m going back to Butler because I feel I have an obligation to go back to Butler. We never finished what we were supposed to do,” Trump said earlier this week in an interview with NewsNation. “I said that day, when I was shot, I said, ‘We’re coming back. We’re going to come back.’ And I’m fulfilling a promise. I’m fulfilling, really, an obligation.” Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., Saturday, July 13, 2024. AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File Trump’s rally is taking place at Butler Farm Show, the exact same location as the outdoor rally where he was shot in the right ear nearly three months ago. One main difference this time around: security will be tighter. Security will be

Saturday, October 5, 2024 9:12PM Friday Night Football Week 7: Part 1 Friday Night Football Week 7: Part 2 Friday Night Football Week 7: Part 3 Week 7 Matchups Friday, October 4 EAST SEQUOIA Farmersville 16 – Granite Hills 44 COUNTY/METRO Bullard 20 – Sanger 39 Edison 20 – Madera 59 Justin Garza 20 – San Joaquin Memorial 26 EAST SEQUOIA Lindsay 28 – Corcoran 24Orange Cove 7 – Woodlake 55 Orosi 12 – Strathmore 28 EAST YOSEMITE El Diamante 0 – Monache 37 Mt. Whitney 0 – Golden West 48 Porterville 34 – Redwood 44 NORTH YOSEMITE Fresno 0 – Hoover 35 McLane 25 – Torres 7Roosevelt 22 – Sunnyside 44 Sanger West 36 – Madera South 14 NORTHWEST SEQUOIA Chowchilla at Riverdale 7:30pm Fowler 27 – Liberty 17 Minarets 45 – Caruthers 42 TRI-COUNTY – KINGS CANYON Kerman 17 – Central Valley Christian 12Washington Union 14 – Kingsburg 28 TRI-COUNTY – SEQUOIA Exeter 41 – Sierra Pacific 0 Immanuel 26 – Selma 6 TRI-RIVER Central 21 – Clovis North 26 Clovis 37 – Buchanan 10Clovis West 3 – Clovis East 44 WEST SIERRA

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — It’s Friday, and that means another edition of Friday Morning Football! Action News made the hour-long drive up Highway 99 to the North Valley as Atwater High School is getting ready to take on a cross-town rival. The Atwater Falcons (4-1) will host the visiting Buhach Colony Thunder (0-5) on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. For news updates, follow Ana Torrea on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.

By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT (AP) — Israel carried out another series of punishing airstrikes Friday, hitting suburban Beirut and cutting off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of people fleeing the Israeli bombardment of the Hezbollah militant group. The overnight blasts in Beirut’s southern suburbs sent huge plumes of smoke and flames into the night sky and shook buildings kilometers (miles) away in the Lebanese capital. Additional strikes sent people running for cover in streets littered with rubble in the Dahiyeh neighborhood, where at least one building was leveled and cars were burned out. The Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah’s central intelligence headquarters around midnight. It did not say who it was aiming for or if any militants were killed in that strike, but it claimed to have killed 100 Hezbollah fighters in the last 24 hours. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported more than 10 consecutive airstrikes in the area. Some 1,400 Lebanese, including Hezbollah fighters and civilians, have been killed and some 1.2 million driven from their homes since Israel escalated its strikes in late September aiming to cripple Hezbollah

‘Terror Swift: The scEras Tour’ By Kenny Lopez Friday, October 4, 2024 2:49PM Taylor Swift takes the stage this Halloween at the popular Skeleton House in New Orleans, Louisiana. NEW ORLEANS — The owner of a New Orleans mansion has been decorating for Halloween with the traditional variety of skeletons, ghosts and goblins for 20 years. But this year is a new “era.” Their bone yard is now transformed into the Taylor Swift themed, “Terror Swift: The scEras Tour.” “13 different Taylors, and a football player that you might recognize,” Louellen Berger, owner of The Skeleton House NOLA told WGNO. Berger said she puts it all together with the help of her 11 grandchildren. “We put all of our minds together and came up with all the ideas. My younger grandkids even did all the friendship bracelets, so it was a family affair,” she said. All of these skeletons are “Taylor made.” “My earlier career was in fashion, so I really like doing this. A lot of the outfits are former outfits of our children or grandchildren, and several of them are even gymnastics outfits,”