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T.C. Roberson completes sweep of Charlotte Catholic to return to 4A championship

They’re back. Earning the right to defend a title is one of the toughest tasks in high school sports. To do it in a sport as unpredictable as high school baseball? Even more impressive. T.C. Roberson won big on Tuesday night, and survived 3-1 on Thursday at Charlotte Catholic to secure its second straight 4A

Australian judge rules that social media platform X must answer to hate speech complaint

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a state’s anti-discrimination law even though it does not have an office in Australia. Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Judge Ann Fitzgerald said in a decision made public Friday that her court has jurisdiction over X Corp.

South Central baseball state championship bound after 3A series sweep of Terry Sanford

Two years ago, South Central knocked on the door of an eastern regional championship. This year, they kicked the door down with authority. After a historic 17-1 victory in Fayetteville on Tuesday night, the Falcons returned home and completed a sweep of Terry Sanford with a 6-2 victory. Next weekend, the program will be playing

Weddington softball sweeps Northwest Guilford to punch ticket to 4A state championship

This spring, the state’s toughest softball gauntlet went through the 4A west region. Weddington aced the test. The Warriors left no doubt on Thursday night when they took down Northwest Guilford 10-3 to complete a two-game sweep of the western regional championship series. Game one was a nail-biting 1-0 victory. Six runs in the fourth

Extreme weather. A lack of lifesaving vaccines. Africa’s cholera crisis is worse than ever

LILANDA, Zambia (AP) — Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent’s worst outbreaks of cholera. In southern and East Africa, more than 6,000 people have

Climate change and rapid urbanization worsened the impact of East African rains, scientists say

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of climate scientists said in a study published Friday. The findings come from World Weather Attribution, a group of scientists

Duke, Kansas will clash this year in Las Vegas :: WRALSportsFan.com

By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports Duke and Kansas, the two winningest men’s basketball programs in the nation since the 1997-98 season, will meet in November. The teams are set to play Nov. 26 in the Vegas Showdown at T-Mobile Arena on ESPN, the network announced Thursday. The Blue Devils and the Jayhawks have played each

Arizona doctors can come to California to perform abortions under new law signed by Gov. Newsom

SACRAMENTO (AP) — Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. California’s law is meant to give Arizonans an option to receive legal abortions from their doctor over the next several months when nearly all abortions in the state will

General Sherman passes health check but world’s largest trees face growing climate threats

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias: bark beetles. The climbers descended the towering 2,200-year-old tree with good news on Tuesday. “The General Sherman tree is doing fine right now,” said Anthony Ambrose,

Becoming a 5-tool Tar Heel was always in Vance Honeycutt’s blood :: WRALSportsFan.com

By Pat Welter “I tried to make it fun first,” Bobby Honeycutt explained. “I wanted to introduce him to all of the sports.” It’s a simple strategy and it’s yielded one of the greatest UNC hitters of all time. “It’s been surreal really,” Honeycutt said. Bobby is the father of Vance Honeycutt and a former