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April 2, 2025
A bipartisan bill filed in the North Carolina Senate Monday would earmark $500,000 to study the feasibility of creating a professional wrestling hall of fame museum in the state. They’re calling it the “RIC FLAIR” Act. Flair, also known as “Nature Boy,” has had a 50-year career in professional wrestling, including bouts at WRAL when
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The N.C. Basketball Coaches Association released its all-state team, players of the year, and coaches of the year for the 2024-2025 boys and girls basketball seasons. Watauga’s Kate Sears was named the player of the year on the girls side, while Reidsville’s Dionte Neal was named the boys player of the year. Sears is a
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image makes it look as though the overflow of stellar material is the billowing contrail of a rocket on its way
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It’s time to submit your votes for the HighSchoolOT Honors Winter Sports Awards! During the winter sports season, HighSchoolOT accepted public nominations for categories involving all sanctioned winter sports, including players and coaches of the year. The HighSchoolOT team took the nominations and narrowed them down to five finalists in each category. Now the public
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The North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s sports operating calendar for the 2025-26 school year has been released. Thanks to an all-new realignment process, athletic directors and coaches across the state had to wait longer than normal for key start dates like first practices, first games, and playoffs. With the operating calendar set, the NCHSAA
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The first details about the playoff structure for N.C. High School Athletic Association sports in the upcoming eight-classification realignment have been released. The NCHSAA Board of Directors has approved a proposal from the Bylaw Committee that sets the number of teams that will qualify for the state playoffs. The information was shared with member schools
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — A private European aerospace company scrubbed its attempt on Monday to launch the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle from Norway. Unfavorable winds meant that the Spectrum rocket couldn’t be launched from the island of Andøya in northern Norway, Munich-based Isar Aerospace said. The launch is subject to various
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GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday that the sudden loss of American money has been “devastating” for efforts to stop HIV and will cost many lives of the world’s most vulnerable people. But she also proposed an “amazing deal” for U.S. President Donald Trump that she said could result
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LONDON (AP) — You can have your cake and eat it too — just do it slowly. Experts tend to focus on the kinds of foods you can eat to improve your health. But the speed at which you devour your dinner matters just as much. There are risks with eating too fast — think
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BEIJING (AP) — It’s highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that produces images, which are then projected onto computer screens. The fragment being examined has a dark area on
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