Sam Perkins was in Charlotte on Sept. 26 when he spoke on the phone with his elderly parents who live in Spruce Pine, a small town in the mountains. Tropical Helene was already making its impact in ...

Concerned about the welfare of his parents amid the deadly devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, a North Carolina man hiked 11 miles and hundreds of feet high to their home to make sure they were ...

Sam Perkins only had one thing on his mind when he decided to trek through the utter devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina: make sure his parents were safe. Perkins was ...

It had been 48 hours since the winds and rains from Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina and Sam Perkins still had not heard from his parents. So, on Saturday morning, he got in his ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Gray News) – A man in North Carolina hiked 11 miles up a mountain to check on his parents after Hurricane Helene. Sam Perkins said his parents are in their 70s and live in a remote ...