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April 26, 2025
ELON, N.C. – Late in Tuesday night’s second quarter against Cedar Ridge, Western Alamance’s suffocating full-court pressure forced a turnover as the Red Wolves attempted to cross the time stripe. Allie Sykes quickly answered with a step-back three from the wing. It kick-started three straight steals and three straight threes for the Lenoir-Rhyne signee. That
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RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida, dropping coastal temperatures and causing the Sunshine State’s manatee population, still recovering from a mass starvation event several years ago, to seek warmer waters. Besides inland natural springs, a
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Topsail High School will have a new head football coach in 2025. Previous head coach Jack Teachey is returning to the college coaching ranks. On Tuesday, Texas Tech University announced that it has hired Teachey as a senior defensive analyst. He will serve under new defensive coordinator Shiel Wood, who he coached and coached with
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A legendary figure from Starmount High School has passed away. On Jan. 12, Starmount’s football accounts on social media shared that former head coach Joe Hutchens died. He was 67 years old. Hutchens will never be forgotten by the Starmount community. The coach led the Rams to a 1A state championship in 1998. The Rams
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued billionaire Elon Musk, saying he failed to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock in a timely manner in early 2022, before buying the social media site. As a result, the SEC alleges, Musk was able to underpay “by at least $150 million” for shares he bought after
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A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for the disease caused by excess body fat. Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI,
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By Bob Holliday, WRAL Sports contribuor It’s the most talked about dunk of the year. Cooper Flagg had just stolen the ball from Pitt’s Jalond Lowe, and after dribbling down court at full speed, threw down an emphatic one handed dunk over a 7-foot defender named Guillermo Diaz-Graham. And he was fouled. Three point play.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California withdrew requests Tuesday for the federal government to allow the state to enforce rules limiting emissions from diesel-powered trains and big rigs in anticipation of the Trump administration rejecting them. The move comes days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. One of the rules, which the California Air Resources Board approved
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With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form video app. TikTok, which has been a cultural phenomenon, could be banned on Jan. 19 under a law
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is cohosting a reception with billionaire Republican donors next week for Donald Trump’s inauguration, the latest sign of the Facebook founder’s embrace of the president-elect. The reception cohosted by Zuckerberg is set for Monday evening, shortly before the inaugural balls, according to two people familiar with the private
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