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May 15, 2025
By Chris Lea, WRAL Sports anchor/reporter It has been more than 40 years since the NC State men won the national basketball championship (1983), and Chris Corchiani says, more than 30 since the Pack demanded the kind of national respect that has come in the run to the Final Four. Corchiani, who played for Jim
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Shelves have gone empty, as residents hunt in vain and resort to DIY alternatives. And surging resale prices are shocking even to Argentines accustomed to triple-digit inflation. The country’s latest crisis: There isn’t enough mosquito repellent. As the South American country contends with its worst outbreak of dengue fever in
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DALLAS (AP) — East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, with weak rumblings felt as far away as Baltimore and the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. No life-threatening injuries or major damage have been reported. Here’s what to know about earthquakes on the East Coast. Earthquakes large enough to
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The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Carbon dioxide, the most important and abundant of the greenhouse gases caused by humans, rose in 2023 by the third highest amount in 65 years of
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Happy Friday! There are only 19 more Fridays until the first Friday Night Lights of the 2024 North Carolina high school football season. Throughout the month of April, we’ll have some kind of football preview coverage released to HSOT Insiders each day. This is a comprehensive list of every returning player this fall that has
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Each year, HighSchoolOT provides extensive playoff projections for all of the NCHSAA’s seeded playoffs. This spring, we are providing those projections for the softball playoffs in all classifications. Projections are dependent on the RPI system, which is updated in real-time rather than once a week. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections are
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Derrick Brown is signing a multi-year contract extension with the team. On Friday, the Panthers announced the news on their website. Brown, 25, is signing a four-year extension worth up to $96 million, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Brown’s extension includes $63.135 million guaranteed,
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These are the projections for the 4A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA girls soccer playoffs. The projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified
READ MORENo. 6 ranked Wakefield softball continued to roll with another five-inning win in conference play. A 12-0 victory at Heritage on Thursday was the Wolverines’ eighth in a row. Wakefield has won their last six by a combined total of 69-2. Brooke Masingale, Kensley Harrison, and Maddy Lampman all homered, and the trio combined for
READ MOREA season ago, Wake Forest parlayed a 16-game regular season winning streak into an appearance in the 4A championship series. After another early .500 start, the Cougars have once again kicked things into overdrive as they build up momentum for May. Two three-run innings helped Wake Forest complete a series sweep of Wakefield. The 6-3
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