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April 4, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains. A new study found shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%. The research, published Wednesday in the journal
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In the month of April, HSOT Insiders will receive daily articles to preview the 2025 high school football season in North Carolina. Today, we’re going to take a look at the defending N.C. High School Athletic Association state runners-up and the players who they are set to return next season. Get Caught Up on the
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By Pat Welter, WRAL Sports anchor/reporter “I have a good ole saying when I play, I just hit and pray,” Mark Williams said as he stepped up to his golf ball on the driving range at North Ridge Country Club in Raleigh. “Twack!” was the sound of good clean contact as Williams connected with his
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By Scott Mason, WRAL reporter From sharpening skates and fixing steel to painting the goaltenders’ facemasks, 46-year-old Jorge Alves is with the Carolina Hurricanes to ensure they get what they need on a typical day at Lenovo Center. “The air-brushing is actually the easiest part,” Alves said. Alves, the son of Portuguese immigrants, grew up
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The Duke Blue Devils on Wednesday departed the Triangle to San Antonio for the Final Four. Sky 5 flew overhead at 9 a.m. as buses carrying the team and staff departed Cameron Indoor Stadium. The team bus will transport the group to Raleigh-Durham International Airport, where they’ll leave for San Antonio to face Houston at
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The fifth-annual HighSchoolOT boys wrestling all-state team features 45 wrestlers making a second, third, or fourth appearance on the team, including two that are now four-time selections (Cardinal Gibbons’ Liam Hickey and Hough’s Jackson Rowling). The all-state list features a first, second, and third team with two wrestlers per weight class, followed by 28 honorable mention
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A group of scientists and health groups sued the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, arguing that an “ideological purge” of research funding is illegal and threatens medical cures. Since President Donald Trump took office in January, hundreds of NIH research grants have been abruptly canceled for science that mentions the words diversity, gender and
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth’s hit list. Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032. Additional observations prompted scientists
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Amazon
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By Bob Holliday, WRAL Sports contributor The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee did quite a job selecting and seeding teams for this NCAA Tournament. The Elite Eight featured three #1 vs. #2 games and a single #1 vs. #3 with Florida slipping past Texas Tech. And of course, for just the second time in NCAA history
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