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May 15, 2025
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic is undertaking its first expedition to the ship’s wreckage in years, and those involved in the mission said they have both heavy hearts and lofty goals for a trip happening a year after a submersible disaster involving another firm killed five
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NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Simmons, television’s hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday. He turned 76 on Friday. Simmons died at his home in Los Angeles, his publicist Tom Estey said in
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Dozens of kids gathered at Southeast Raleigh High School on Saturday morning for a youth football camp organized by one of the most successful quarterbacks in the school’s history. Gabe Henderson, a member of the Class of 2010 at Southeast Raleigh, returned home to offer a free youth football camp to kids in the community.
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With the high school football season right around the corner, there is a new head coach opening in Eastern North Carolina. Previous South Lenoir High School head football coach Will Harrell has left the school and taken an assistant coach spot at Clinton High School. He confirmed the change with HighSchoolOT. Harrell took over the
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By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Tennis Writer LONDON — LONDON (AP) — At age 18, a decade before Barbora Krejcikova won Wimbledon on Saturday, she was done with junior tennis and couldn’t decide whether to pursue a professional tennis career or move on, go to school and find a different path. So Krejcikova wrote a letter
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HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The Buddhist teacher who founded what is now a global charity and religion with a $283 million operating budget grew up at a time when women could not be ordained as Buddhist nuns. What Cheng Yen, now 87, started in 1966 in Taiwan’s countryside as a grassroots effort among housewives has
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Michelle Mata wasn’t diagnosed with a mental illness until she was 23, after years of suffering. She knew very little about who to ask for help, having grown up in a Latino family in San Antonio that didn’t talk about mental health. At appointments, she was terrified of telling the truth. “I didn’t want to
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By Durham Bulls Charlotte, NC – The Charlotte Knights drilled three homers en route to a 9-4 win over the Durham Bulls, snapping Durham’s five-game winning streak on Friday night at Truist Field. Mason Montgomery (L, 0-6) surrendered five runs over 3 2/3 innings, including a pair of homers in the fourth inning to Bryan
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By Pat Welter The sun isn’t even up and Evan Wilkerson is already in the pool. “When I started the team I really started to enjoy the sport,” Wilkerson said. “It’s a very almost peaceful sport.” Peace is in the eye of the beholder as the New Wave Swim club of Raleigh swims dozens of
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel ruled 2-1 on Friday that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates. “There is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex,” 6th U.S. Circuit Court
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