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November 16, 2024
ATLANTA (AP) — A person in Texas has been diagnosed with bird flu, an infection tied to the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows, health officials said Monday. The patient was being treated with an antiviral drug and their only reported symptom was eye redness, Texas health officials said. Health officials say the
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By AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer Connecticut and Purdue needed the right fit. Alabama needed more bodies. North Carolina State had big holes to fill in the backcourt. They all mined the transfer portal effectively enough that those pieces are key reasons that they’ve reached the Final Four, headed to the desert with a chance
READ MOREIt’s not quite as big of a change as a week ago, but there are still significant changes to this week’s HighSchoolOT statewide Top 25 baseball rankings. Out are Wayne Country Day, Hoggard, Weddington, Wakefield, Marvin Ridge, and North Lenoir. Replacing them are Wake Forest, East Rowan, Hough, Providence, South Mecklenburg, and North Stanly. There
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Hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before subjecting them to pelvic exams and exams of other sensitive areas — especially if an exam will be done while the patient is unconscious, the federal government said Monday. New guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now requires consent for breast, pelvic,
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Some upsets have triggered big changes to the HighSchoolOT softball statewide rankings. Franklin, Oak Grove, and Weddington are now in the top 10, while six new teams joined the top 25. No. 17 Piedmont, by virtue of its win over West Stanly, is in as well as Nos. 20-25: Bunker Hill, Parkwood, North Stanly, North
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SEATTLE (AP) — Federal researchers indicate the gray whale population along the West Coast is showing signs of recovery five years after hundreds washed up dead on beaches from Alaska to Mexico. The increase in population numbers comes after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association determined in November that the “unusual mortality event” that began
READ MOREThere are a whopping six new teams in this week’s HighSchoolOT statewide 25 girls soccer rankings. After an upset loss by Cox Mill to Mooresville, there was a shake-up in the 704 area code top 15 which started a domino effect for the statewide top 25. Sun Valley, Pine Lake Prep, Topsail, Hibriten, Hickory, and
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We’ve now been through three months without high school football in North Carolina. Today, there’s only four months between now and when games start. Throughout the month of April, we’ll have some kind of football preview coverage released to HSOT Insiders each day. First up, let’s take a look at the four defending N.C. High
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame. As upsetting as that notification was, it also was part
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Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are
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