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Holliday: Ken Browning, a Northern Durham legend, gets his due

Friday night in Durham, Northern High School will name its new football facility “Kenny Browning Stadium.” What a fitting tribute to the man who put football on the map at Northern. Before I go any further, I must admit to a personal bias. You see, I married into a family of six Northern graduates, all

The Starting 22: Best players from week 4 of high school football in NC

For each week of the 2024 high school football season, HighSchoolOT will release the Starting 22. It lists the best performances from every position across North Carolina. Coaches should send in performance nominations to [email protected] for consideration each week. Players cannot have a repeat selection later in the year, as the goal of this is

Scientists detect longest pair of jets streaming from a supermassive black hole

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted – about as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up end-to-end. “This one has managed to reach a size that’s so big,” said

European Union court largely upholds Qualcomm antitrust penalty in 2019 case but trims fine

LONDON (AP) — Qualcomm lost its legal fight on Wednesday to get a European Union antitrust penalty thrown out after a top court largely rebuffed the technology company’s arguments in the case involving cellphone chipsets. The European Union’s General Court said it was rejecting most of Qualcomm’s appeal against the 242 million euro ($269 million)

McIlroy expresses concerns over Poulter’s Ryder Cup captaincy hopes :: WRALSportsFan.com

By The Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — Rory McIlroy believes it will be difficult for Ian Poulter or Lee Westwood to be a future Ryder Cup captain because they no longer have a connection with Europe’s emerging stars after defecting to LIV Golf. Poulter was a stalwart for Europe

Panthers Playbook: Carolina Panthers bench Bryce Young :: WRALSportsFan.com

Emergency episode of Panthers playbook. That’s Chris Lee Dennis Coxie with you sponsored by Carolina Ford dealers. Got that out of the way. All right, Chris, can we officially say price is a bus? He’s benched. Um You say he’s a bus now in the eyes of the Carolina Panthers. He’s a bus man. But,

ACC eyes revenue distribution models that could quell disputes with FSU, Clemson, AP sources say :: WRALSportsFan.com

By RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Football Writer Atlantic Coast Conference leaders are discussing new ways of divvying up media rights revenue that could potentially resolve legal disputes with Florida State and Clemson, two people familiar with the league’s internal talks told The Associated Press on Tuesday night. The people spoke on condition of anonymity

Now a Roe advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child tells her story in Harris campaign ad

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Hadley Duvall says in voiceover that she’s never slept a full night in her life — her stepfather first

California governor signs laws to crack down on election deepfakes created by AI

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills Tuesday to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election. A new law, set to take effect immediately, makes it illegal to create and publish deepfakes related to elections 120

Hundreds of pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria in a deadly attack. Here’s what we know.

NEW YORK (AP) — In what appears to be a sophisticated, remote attack, pagers used by hundreds of members of Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria Tuesday, killing at least nine people — including an 8-year-old girl — and wounding thousands more. The Iran-backed militant group blamed Israel for the deadly explosions, which