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January 17, 2025
GARNER, N.C. — The HighSchoolOT Volleyball Showcase, hosted by Garner High and presented by Advance Community Health and EPIC Physical Therapy, featured six games featuring seven ranked teams, five of them in the top 10. Below is a running recap of the day’s games. We’ll add video highlights and links to photo galleries from each
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By JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bryce Young made Panthers coach Dave Canales’ decision easy in determining how long he was going to keep the Panthers’ starting offense on the field in their preseason finale at Buffalo on Saturday. All it took to reassure the coach
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts who will spend extra time at the International Space Station are Navy test pilots who have ridden out long missions before. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been holed up at the space station with seven others since the beginning of June, awaiting a verdict on
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they’ll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a weeklong test flight for the pair will now last more than eight months.
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By The Associated Press DUBLIN — DUBLIN (AP) — Aidan Birr made a 44-yard field goal as time expired and Georgia Tech upset No. 10 Florida State 24-21 on Saturday in the first major college football game of the season. Coming off an undefeated regular season, but with a remade roster, the Seminoles tied the
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RALEIGH, N.C. — They say it’s not how you start, but how you finish. However, it helps when you have a great start. Southeast Raleigh defeated rival Enloe, 49-15, in the Raleigh Classic. It’s the third straight win in the series for the Bulldogs, who rang the victory bell in their endzone to celebrate. “Anytime
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Seventy-First and Richmond started off 2024 with everything a high school opener could ask for. Big plays? Check. Lead changes just seconds apart? Check. The lights going out just before a big moment in the fourth quarter? Also check. When both teams left the field, there were two undeniable truths. The first,
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, spent time in the hospital after being infected with West Nile virus and is now recovering at home, a spokesperson confirmed Saturday. Fauci is expected to make a full recovery, the spokesperson said on condition of anonymity due to security concerns. West Nile virus is
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ROME (AP) — Prosecutors in Italy said Saturday they have opened an investigation into culpable shipwreck and multiple manslaughter after a superyacht capsized during a storm off the coast of Sicily, killing seven people onboard. They included British tech magnate Mike Lynch and his daughter. Termini Imerese prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio confirmed the investigation has been
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On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos and hazardous waste while working to decontaminate a nuclear facility and prepare it for demolition. Dressed in head-to-toe coveralls and fitted with respirators, the crew members toiling in a building without power had no obvious respite from the heat. Instead,
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