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March 8, 2025
By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports In No. 9 NC State’s lone exhibition before the season gets started, the Wolfpack and head coach Wes Moore had plenty of opportunity to watch new players get used to their new home. Part of the reason they got the opportunity was most of the starters were resting because of
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Does size matter? The next realignment will use only ADM to determine which 2A schools will go into 4A, 3A, and 2A (or even 5A?). The past realignment used other data, like ISP (the percentage of students in a school or group of schools who are eligible for free meals without submitting a meal application)
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By STEVE REED, AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens have added another offensive playmaker for quarterback Lamar Jackson. The Ravens acquired wide receiver Diontae Johnson and a sixth-round pick in 2025 on Tuesday from the Carolina Panthers for a 2025 fifth-rounder. The Panthers announced the terms of the
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is still thriving while the company navigates through a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence and battles regulators trying to topple its internet empire. The latest evidence of Google’s prosperity emerged Tuesday with the release of its corporate parent Alphabet Inc.’s results for the July-September period. Both Alphabet’s profit and revenue
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk’s X, thanks to a recent run-up in the shares of the parent company of the former president’s social media platform. Trump Media & Technology Group is now valued at over $10 billion after its shares more than quadrupled since late
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A 15-year-old high school freshman is hospitalized with severe complications of food poisoning after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before a deadly E. coli outbreak was detected. Kamberlyn Bowler, of Grand Junction, Colorado, had to be flown 250 miles to a hospital near Denver in mid-October, where she received dialysis
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer The Carolina Panthers have traded wide receiver Diontae Johnson to the Baltimore Ravens, according to several media reports. The Panthers are receiving a fifth-round pick from the Ravens. The Ravens will also receive a sixth-round pick in the deal. Johnson leads the Panthers in receptions (30), targets (58),
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LONDON (AP) — More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. About 1.25 million people died of TB last year, the new report said, adding that TB likely returned to being the world’s top
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A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the sun. Astronomers have been tracking the so-called Halloween
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By The Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — (AP) — Sebastian Aho scored 47 seconds into overtime and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Monday night. Martin Necas had a goal and an assist, and William Carrier and Jack Roslovic also scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, who won their fourth straight.
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