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February 24, 2025
An older woman in southeast Wyoming is hospitalized with bird flu, state health department officials said Friday. It’s the state’s first human case of Type A H5N1 influenza, which is spreading through animals and some people. Nearly 70 people in the U.S. have been reported infected with bird flu in the last year, according to
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While athletes and teams won indoor track & field state championships this weekend, some managed to tie and break records. The N.C. High School Athletic Association’s indoor track & field state championship was held at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 14-15. All three boys champions claimed their first team
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the dye known as Red 3 from the nation’s food supply in January, setting deadlines for stripping the brightly hued additive from candies and cough syrup, baked goods and frozen treats. The agency said it was taking the action because studies found that the dye, also known as
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For the first time since 2020, a team other than Swain County has won the N.C. High School Athletic Association 1A/2A indoor track & field state championship. Cummings ended the run of three straight state championships for the Maroon Devils, finishing the day with 80 points — just 5.5 points ahead of Swain County, which
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For the first time in school history, Seaforth has won an indoor track & field state championship. The Hawks finished the N.C. High School Athletic Association 1A/2A state championship meet with 62 points at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem on Friday night. The point total was comfortably ahead of second-place Farmville Central, which finished
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Below are the scores and matchups from the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association’s postseason boys and girls basketball playoffs. The NCISAA is the largest league of private schools in North Carolina. Playoff brackets for the NCISAA are determined by a committee made up of its Board of Advisors and athletic directors and coaches from a
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By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports College baseball returns for the 2025 season – and the three Triangle ACC teams have a chance to put heart eyes on your face with home openers on Valentine’s Day, at least, that’s according to DI Baseball’s presason rankings. The college baseball publication puts North Carolina, Duke and NC State
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Abortions are set to resume in Missouri after a judge blocked regulations that had restricted providers even after voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state’s constitution. Friday’s ruling came after a Kansas City judge ruled last year that abortions were now legal in the state but kept certain regulations on
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Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired Friday under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of nearly all probationary employees, according to an audio recording of a National Institutes of Health department meeting. In that meeting, an NIH office director told employees
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Clinton High School is a tight-knit community. One stitch helping to hold them all together is senior Ryan Freeman. “Ryan is like a diamond in the rough, after 28 years, you don’t see students like Ryan come around very often,” Clinton High School teacher Venetia Mann said. “You’re so thankful that he’s there and you
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