Bristol Motor Speedway

Kyle Busch scored his first victory of the season at the Bristol Dirt Race on Sunday, but where does he stand in our power rankings? Here’s the top 10 drivers after nine races.

The retired NASCAR driver, now a television analyst, issued a statement Monday on social media praising the “quick response of my pilots, local law enforcement, emergency personnel and hospital staff.”

NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and his family survived a plane crash in Tennessee.

Pieces of hurricane evacuee Melody Rawson’s South Carolina life are now spread out on a grassy field, a slab of concrete and a picnic table at a campground outside Atlanta Motor Speedway. They include two dogs, a cockatoo in its cage, a couple of coolers with sandwich meat and the mangled remains of a tire that blew out at midnight...

Floridians fleeing Hurricane Irma have turned freeways across the Southeast into red ribbons of brake lights as they head elsewhere — to Atlanta, Montgomery, Nashville — to bunk with relatives, stay at campgrounds or grab hotels before the massive storm makes landfall....
Because Interstate 75 north leads straight to Atlanta, thousands of the evacuees have funneled into the city. Other cars...