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April 26, 2025
If you think physical therapy is only about rehabilitation after surgery or recovering from an accident, think again. For the vast majority, seeing a physical therapist should be about prevention, routine assessment and staying well. “We’re the best-kept secret in health care,” Sharon Dunn, the past president of the American Physical Therapy Association, told The
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MARION, N.C. – A strong start and even stronger finish bookended a signature win for McDowell’s girls basketball program. Hosting defending 2A western champion East Burke in a showdown of undefeated teams, the Titans rallied from down 8 to win 56-52. Kensly Stewart poured in 20 points, including two late three-point baskets that fueled a
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MARION, N.C. – For the first time since 2016, McDowell’s boys basketball program is off to a 9-1 start. The Titans’ star forward Rylan Perkins dropped in a season-high 31 to secure an 87-49 win over East Burke in the finale of the school’s annual holiday tournament. Off the opening tip, the 6-foot-7 senior ran
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MORGANTON, N.C. – Freedom wouldn’t mind this feeling a few more times. Working on their best season since a 2020 co-championship, the Patriots punched their ticket to a title game with a 70-61 victory over T.C. Roberson in their 50th Annual Foothills Marine Christmas Invitational. Nine different players found the scoresheet for Freedom. Kobe Johnson
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Seven coaches in the history of the N.C. High School Athletic Association have won a state championship as the head coach at multiple schools. Sam Greiner is the most recent to do it. Greiner won the 2017 4A state championship at Harding University High School. The following season, he became the head coach at Hickory
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By Allan Kreda NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Devils defenseman Luke Hughes had a goal and an assist, Jacob Markstrom made 29 saves and New Jersey defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2 on Friday night. Ondrej Palat, Nico Hischier and Dawson Mercer also scored for New Jersey, which has won three straight and six of seven. Eric
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President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue. The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued the court should strike down
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Stuart Cramer girls basketball defeated Charlotte Latin in the opening round of Ardrey Kell’s Hickory Tavern/Chick-Fil-A Blakeney Winter Classic with a 39-33 win on Dec. 27, 2024. Web Editor : J. Mike Blake Posted 2024-12-27T18:21:19-0500 – Updated 2024-12-27T18:23:05-0500 Source: highschoolot.com
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A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case of the illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week. Scientists believe the mutations may allow the virus to better bind to receptors in the upper airways of humans — something
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials said this month that
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