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No. 2 Providence Day blasts Trinity Christian in debuts for Kendre Harrison, Zaid Lott

Three-time defending NCISAA Division 1 state champs Providence Day kicked off its 2024 season with a bang on Friday night. The Chargers blew past defending Division 2 runner-up Trinity Christian School of Fayetteville by a score of 55-8. This season represents the start of a new era for Providence Day. Gone are graduates Jadyn Davis

Congo’s humanitarian crisis helped mpox spiral again into a global health emergency

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Sarah Bagheni had a headache, fever, and itchy and unusual skin lesions for days, but she had no inkling that her symptoms might have been caused by mpox and that she might be another case in a growing global health emergency. She also has no idea where to go to get

Bird flu restrictions cause heartache for 4-H kids unable to show off livestock at fairs across US

EVART, Mich. (AP) — Alison Smith stared at the virtually empty dairy barn inside the Osceola County Fairgrounds, once bustling with teens and preteens preparing to show their prized animals but now eerily silent as an invisible virus once again interfered with a cherished summertime rite. Smith, a 16-year-old from the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area,

Make eye exams part of the back-to-school checklist. Your kids and their teachers will thank you

When a little boy burst into tears in her third-grade classroom last fall, Audrey Jost pulled him aside while the other kids were at recess. He said he was getting headaches and falling behind the other students, so Jost spoke with his parents about getting his eyes tested. A few days later the boy returned

Heart disease is rampant in parts of the rural South. Researchers are hitting the road to learn why

Darrell Dixon’s father was just 25 when he had a major heart attack in the rural Mississippi Delta. By his early 40s, a series of additional attacks had left his heart muscle too weak to pump enough blood to his body. He died in 2013 at the age of 49. “It was a big jolt

Mangum’s throw seals 3-2 Durham win over Nashville :: WRALSportsFan.com

Jake Mangum threw out Nashville’s Owen Miller at home plate to end a 3-2 Durham Bulls victory over the Sounds before 7,912 fans Friday night at the DBAP. With one out, Nashville’s Freddy Zamora lifted a shallow pop fly to right. Miller, pinch running for Francisco Mejia, tagged and broke for the plate upon the

Pharmacist blamed for deaths in US meningitis outbreak will plead no contest in Michigan case

DETROIT (AP) — A Massachusetts pharmacist charged with murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents from a 2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak has agreed to plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter, according to an email sent to families and obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The deal with Glenn Chin calls for a 7 1/2-year

First case of polio confirmed in a 10-month-old child in Gaza, Palestinian health officials say

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian health officials on Friday reported the first case of polio in an unvaccinated 10-month-old child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the first case in years in the coastal enclave that has been engulfed in the Israel-Hamas war since Oct. 7. After discovering the child’s symptoms, tests were

San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girls

Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year of probation. But the artificial intelligence tool used to create the harmful deepfakes is still easily accessible on the internet, promising to “undress any photo”

Duke Football and the ‘Church of Feeley’ :: WRALSportsFan.com

By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports Durham, N.C. — Football, as a sport, is full of clichés. Offense sells tickets, defense wins championships. The low man always wins. You have to play a full 60 minutes. They’re clichés for a reason: They’re usually true. One of the big college football clichés, especially during the offseason and