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May 8, 2025
HOLLYWOOD CROSSROADS, N.C. — The wire-to-wire No. 1 team in the HighSchoolOT statewide rankings will get a chance to finish the job. Cardinal Gibbons defeated D.H. Conley 3-0 (25-19, 25-19, 25-22) on Thursday for the 4A East regional title. The Crusaders will play Marvin Ridge — the 4A West champ — in Saturday’s N.C. High
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By STEPHEN WHYNO, AP Hockey Writer WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine games into the Washington Capitals’ season, Alex Ovechkin is scoring at a rate that would put him past Wayne Gretzky as soon as this spring. Ovechkin scored his 858th career goal Thursday night against the Montreal Canadiens, putting him 37 away from breaking
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After falling just short of a state championship last season seasons, Perquimans’ volleyball team is officially going back. Last year, the Pirates fell in a five set heartbreaker at Falls Lake Academy in the 1A East regional final. Tonight, the Pirates traveled back to Falls Lake Academy and delivered a swift 3-0 sweep. The Pirates
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GREENVILLE, N.C. — Many of the last names are the same, but many the faces are different. J.H. Rose’s volleyball team is going back to the state championship match in volleyball for the second time in the last three years with a slew of younger siblings from that 2022 team. The Rampants claimed the N.C.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince William’s roadshow for environmental innovation will arrive in South Africa next week as the heir to the British throne announces the winners of his annual Earthshot Prize, aimed at finding new ways to combat climate change and other threats to the planet’s air, water and wildlife. William will travel to Cape
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The thrill of Cameron Indoor Stadium on gameday is an atmosphere Debbie Jones knows well. The mom spent years cheering on her sons Tyus and Tre as they donned Duke blue on the hardwood under the leadership of legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski. Tyus helped the team claim a national championship in 2015 before being drafted
READ MORELOS ANGELES (AP) — Amazon reported a boost in its quarterly profits Thursday and exceeded revenue estimates, sending the company’s stock up in after-hours trading. For the three months that ended on Sept. 30, the Seattle-based tech giant posted a revenue of $158.9 billion, higher than the $157.28 billion analysts had expected. Amazon said it
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as “controlled dangerous substances” was challenged in a state court lawsuit Thursday by a physician, a pharmacist and others who say the legislation sets up needless, dangerous delays in treatment during medical emergencies. Although there already was a near-total abortion ban
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple snapped out of a recent iPhone sales slump during its summer quarter, an early sign that its recent efforts to revive demand for its marquee product with an infusion of artificial intelligence are paying off. Sales of the iPhone totaled $46.22 billion for the July-September period, a 6% increase from
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration. Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking
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