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April 4, 2025
By NCFC North Carolina FC advanced to the Round of 32 in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup with a 1-0 win over Carolina Core FC in third-round play Wednesday night at WakeMed Soccer Park. Julian Placias’ second half goal was the difference in the clean sheet win. The home side finished the night with
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By Kacy Hintz, WRAL sports Raleigh, N.C. — It’s only fitting the Carolina Hurricanes open the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs on a Saturday night in Raleighwood. The NHL announced the dates, starting times and national television coverage for the Eastern Conference Game 1s of the first-round, which begins Saturday, April 20. Game one between the
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The undefeated dream is still alive for Western Alamance following a 2-1 win at Orange in Wednesday night Central Carolina 3A Conference girls soccer action. Western Alamance (11-0-1, 6-0), ranked 16th in the state and second in the 336 area code, opened the game with a quick strike from sophomore Alison Thomas. The Warriors continued
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By RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Sports Writer NCAA athletes will be immediately eligible to play no matter how many times they transfer — as long as they meet academic requirements — after the association fast-tracked legislation Wednesday to fall in line with a recent court order. The NCAA announced the Division I Council’s decision
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With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. No
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LONDON (AP) — Hugh Grant accepted “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him, the actor said Wednesday after the agreement was announced in court. Grant said he reluctantly settled because of a
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in government support for Micron Technology to produce advanced memory computer chips in New York and Idaho. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., personally courted Micron to build what would ultimately be a set of four chip factories near Syracuse in
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PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state’s highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo the long-dormant statute. Although no vote was taken on the
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By Destinee Patterson, WRAL reporter Cary, N.C. — Ashley Twichell describes the water as her happy place. That’s why despite previously planning to retire, she’s once again training for the Olympic Trials. “If you had asked me before the Tokyo Olympics, it was like a 99.9% done,” she told WRAL. The then 32-year-old swam the
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Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are more likely than the overall adult population to believe in human-caused climate change, according to a new poll. It also suggests that partisanship may not have as much of an impact on this group’s environmental views, compared to Americans overall. A recent poll
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