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April 26, 2025
Austin Shenton and Kameron Misner each hit grand slams as the Durham Bulls dropped the Norfolk Tides 14-5 before 8,105 fans at the DBAP. Trailing 2-0 in the first, Shenton drove a slam over the left-centerfield wall to put Durham (6-6) ahead 4-2. After Connor Norby hit his second home run of the game in
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Part of the experience of a NASCAR race is hearing the engine roar, the rumble of each car’s approach and the zip when it whizzes past at more than 150 mph. NASCAR unveiled its first electric racecar Saturday in downtown Chicago, but it doesn’t thunder when the grand marshal says “drivers, start your engines.” It
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures — and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said. Oppressive heat and humidity could team up to spike temperatures
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Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has traded defenseman Dylan Coghlan to the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for future considerations. Coghlan, 26, spent most of last season in the American Hockey League (AHL) with Springfield, tallying 41 points (16g, 25a) in 61 games. The 6’3”,
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Earlier this offseason, Northeast Guilford hired Antwon Stevenson to serve as its next head coach. Stevenson decided to bring on Parris Baxter to be his new defensive coordinator. About a month later, Stevenson took the head coaching job at Ragsdale, which is much closer to where he lives. Northeast Guilford chose to slid Baxter into
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An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. As large parts of the Sunshine State’s once-famous citrus industry have all but dried up over the past two decades because of two fatal diseases, greening and citrus canker,
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By Associated Press Minnesota Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson was killed Saturday morning in a car crash in Maryland, police and the team said. Jackson, 24, was one of three people who died in an overnight three-car crash in Prince George’s County, according to Maryland State Police. The Vikings released a statement saying the team
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By Ashley Rowe, & Lora Lavigne, WRAL anchor/reporter The Olympic journey to Paris has a stop in the Triangle, where elite swimmers will spend the next week getting ready for the Olympic games. On Saturday morning, fans lined up around the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary to watch. Olympic swimmers train up close. Some had
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With its unprecedented tear through the ultrawarm waters of the southeast Caribbean, Beryl turned meteorologists’ worst fears of a souped-up hurricane season into grim reality. Now it’s Texas turn. Beryl hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 hurricane on Friday, then weakened to a tropical storm. It’s expected to reach southern Texas by Sunday
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By Pat Welter It’s a small town, but a “big kountry.” “Farm raised lot of protein,” Christopher Arrington laughed. “Growing up as a kid this guy was always working out.” Arrington is one of the assistant coaches volunteering at Keeshawn Silver’s Big Kountry football camp. “Coming from Rocky Mount you don’t have the most,” Silver
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