Coast Guard officials in North Carolina received word from Kale’s ... Crews have used an HC-130 Hercules plane from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City and a 29-foot response boat from ...

Watchstanders with the U.S. Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received a call around ... the men off the boat and took them to the air station, the Coast Guard said. They weren’t injured.

Despite the end of the formal search, the Coast Guard asks anyone with information about the whereabouts of the Andrews and Merriman to call the Sector North Carolina Command Center at 910-343-3880.

At one point on Saturday and into Sunday, 175 wildfires erupted in South and North Carolina, fueled by high winds and extremely dry conditions, officials said. The fires prompted South Carolina Gov.