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April 26, 2025
Cummings’ girls track & field team successfully defending its N.C. High School Athletic Association 2A state championship on Friday, and it wasn’t particularly close. The Cavaliers finished the day with 103 points, while second-place N.C. Science & Math finished with 40. Cummings record six first-place finishes on the day, and D’Anna Cotton accounted for four
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By Joseph Ochoa, WRAL multiplatform producer, and Kacy Hintz, WRAL Sports reporter Raleigh, N.C. — Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour is staying in Raleigh. The Canes legend agreed to a multi-year contract extension with the team. Assistant coaches Jeff Daniels and Tim Gleason, video coach Chris Huffine and goaltending coach Paul Schonfelder have also
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The matchups and schedule for the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys tennis dual-team championships are now set. Champions will be crowned on Monday at the Burlington Tennis Center. The 1A and 3A championships will start at 9 a.m., with the 2A and 4A championships starting at 12:30 p.m. The matches were moved from Saturday
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CHICAGO (AP) — Sen. Tammy Baldwin, facing a tough reelection fight in one of the races that will determine control of Congress, has made protecting reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign, and she’s willing to back that up by pledging to change the Senate filibuster rules if Democrats retain control of the chamber. The
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you get hypothermia in a prison?” the investigator asked. “You shouldn’t.” The exchange, captured on video
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A county judge could rule as early as Monday on Ohio’s law banning virtually all abortions, a decision that will take into consideration the decision by voters to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution. The 2019 law under consideration by Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins bans most abortions
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JACUMÉ, México (AP) — Near the towering border wall flanked by a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the scrub yelp “chi-ca-go,” a sound the birds use to signal they are separated from a mate or group. Then silence. A quail on the Mexican side called back, triggering a back-and-forth
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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer D. Wayne Lukas worked his way to Seize the Grey after his horse won the Preakness Stakes and kept getting interrupted by well-wishes offering congratulations. “I think they’re trying to get rid of me,” Lukas said. “They probably want me to retire. I don’t think that’ll happen.” Not when
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After losing the first game of the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association 4A baseball state championship series, Metrolina Christian won two games against Wesleyan Christian on Saturday to claim the title. Case Gibbs started at pitcher in the third game of the series after throwing a complete game two-hitter with five strikeouts in the second
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Lake Norman Charter needed a spark on offense, and junior Tyler Price delivered. With the Knights leading Orange 4-3 at halftime, Price came out in the third quarter and scored four straight goals in the first 4:09 of the quarter. That helped Lake Norman Charter to a 16-7 win over Orange, winning its third straight
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