Your City, Your News
April 27, 2025
By Clark Gerber, WRAL Sports contributor The internet is a big place. Unless you’re 100% plugged in all the time (and let’s be clear, that is NOT recommended), you’re going to miss some stuff. Let us do that work. You can be a well-adjusted human being and still catch all the best sports moments of
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer The 2024 NBA Draft starts Wednesday in New York. The Atlanta Hawks have the No. 1 overall pick. There will be 58 selections over two rounds with round one on Wednesday night and round two on Thursday. Where, when and how to watch the 2024 NBA Draft Round
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation’s top doctor, came as the U.S. grappled with another summer weekend marked by mass shootings that
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL The Florida Panthers hoisted the Stanley Cup on Monday night, In three months, the Panthers will be skating at PNC Arena in a preseason game. The NHL season waits for no one, not even a franchise winning the Cup for the first time. The Hurricanes, who have an eventful off-season ahead
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Rolesville High School senior Joslyn Hamilton has been named the top girls track & field athlete in North Carolina. Hamilton was selected as the Gatorade North Carolina Player of the Year in track & field on Tuesday morning. Hamilton is a 5-foot-9 senior hurdler and sprinter for Rolesville. At the N.C. High School Athletic Association
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Residents of an eastern Ohio village are learning more about the fiery wreck of a Norfolk Southern freight train last year that derailed their lives as another hearing gets underway, with the National Transportation Safety Board set to discuss the ongoing investigation and issue recommendations for averting future disasters. “On
READ MORELONDON (AP) — Microsoft violated European Union antitrust rules with “possibly abusive” practices by tying its Teams messaging and videoconferencing app to its widely used business software, the bloc said. The European Commission said Monday it informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that the U.S. tech giant has been “restricting competition” by bundling Teams with
READ MOREOne person has died and scores more remain hospitalized in Russia in an outbreak of botulism that spans several Russian regions, the authorities have reported. Foodborne botulism is a rare illness caused by a toxin produced by a type of bacteria called Clostridium botulinum. Eating foods contaminated with the toxin can cause paralysis, breathing difficulties
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese automaker VinFast, for a short time the third-most valuable car company in the world, has a big problem: It just can’t sell enough cars. Idle factories bleed money and the company’s financial health is at stake. After finding the U.S. market a tough nut to crack, Vinfast is hoping its
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BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in the Inner Mongolian region in northern China on Tuesday afternoon. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration Mission achieved complete success,” Zhang
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