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April 18, 2025
The NCHSAA Foundation has announced the 2025 recipients of te Clay Medal Scholarship. The prestigious award honors student-athletes who exemplify outstanding academic achievement, athletic excellence, leadership, and community service. The scholarship amounts to $3,000 per winner. Vincent Gregory of North Mekclenburg High School and Elyana Hvastkovs of D.H. Conley High School are this year’s recipients.
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By Stephen Whyno, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tom Wilson scored his career-best 33rd goal of the season and the Washington Capitals wrapped up the top spot in the Eastern Conference by beating the Carolina Hurricanes 5-4 in a shootout Thursday night. Pierre-Luc Dubois scored the shootout winner after the Capitals rallied from a 2-0
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BERLIN (AP) — Fatou, the oldest gorilla living in captivity worldwide, is getting ready for her 68th birthday in style. The Berlin zoo on Friday presented Fatou with a basket of fruit and vegetables ahead of her official birthday, which falls on Sunday. Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what
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ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — After a long day of rehearsing for her upcoming world tour, Katy Perry decided to peruse a few books to help her unwind before bed. “I was listening to ‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan and reading a book on string theory,” she recalled. “I’ve always been interested in astrophysics and interested in
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One of North Carolina’s top high school athletic programs will need a new director. Brian Knab, the current AD at Marvin Ridge High School, announced on Friday that he is stepping down at the conclusion of the school year. Knab recently won the President’s Award from the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association. The coach took
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Like most Duke basketball fans, Steve was disheartened at the Blue Devils’ season ending in abrupt fashion in the Final Four. But to soften the blow, he’s still basking in a find that would be a dream experience for any Duke fan – or sports card collector. Steve bagged the only Cooper Flagg card of
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient’s embryo from her in vitro fertilization clinic due to “human error,” the clinic said. The mix-up was discovered in February when the clinic in the city of Brisbane found that the birth parents had
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By DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. — AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Just a couple of weeks ago, Scottie Scheffler thought his game was not quite as sharp as he would have wanted it. “Sharp” might be a poor word choice given what happened in December. In any case, Scheffler’s game looked — How
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A new Kansas law and a Florida bill outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them. The Kansas Legislature’s Republican supermajorities on Thursday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill to require that
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who has pushed a discredited theory that routine childhood shots cause the developmental disability, said the effort
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