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March 9, 2025
The first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association dual-team boys tennis state playoffs took place Wednesday. First round action only involves the 2A, 3A, and 4A classification. All qualifiers in the 1A classification receive a first-round bye and will begin play in the second round on Monday, May 6. There are a few
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The first two rounds of the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys and girls lacrosse state playoffs took place Wednesday through Saturday. Many teams received first-round byes. The 3A/2A/1A girls lacrosse playoffs have one less round than the 4A girls and both boys’ brackets, so only its first round was played. The next round for
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When Florida enacted its six-week abortion ban last week, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states sprang into action, knowing women would look to them for services no longer available where they live. Health care providers in North Carolina, three states to the north, are rushing to expand availability and
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wearing a bright safety vest with the words “Safe Passage” on the back, Tatiana Alabsi strides through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school, navigating broken bottles and stained sleeping bags along tired streets that occasionally reek of urine. Along the way in one of America’s most notorious
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By KYLE HIGHTOWER, AP Sports Writer BOSTON — BOSTON (AP) — With the Boston Bruins’ season on the brink and the team’s top scorer mired in a scoring slump, coach Jim Montgomery didn’t hesitate to publicly challenge David Pastrnak to do more in Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. It helped bring out some
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By GARY B. GRAVES, AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. — LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Brian Hernandez Jr. will need a minute to digest his signature victory in the 150th Kentucky Derby. Maybe even more time since the milestone derby capped the best weekend of a jockey career spent mostly under the radar. The Louisiana native
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The North Carolina Courage fell to NJ/NY Gotham FC, 1-0, Saturday night at Red Bull Arena. The Courage remain on 12 points through eight matches with a 4-4-0 record, splitting the season series with Gotham. The match started with some end-to-end play with Casey Murphy making an early save in the 2’ before Ashley Sanchez
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Forrest Wall homered for the second straight game, scoring three times to lead Gwinnett past Durham 5-3 on Star Wars Night at Coolray Field on Saturday evening. Wall, who homered Friday, drove a first-pitch changeup from Shane Baz (L, 0-1) over the right field wall in the third inning to snap a 1-1 tie. Josh
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Leury Garcia delivered a game-winning sacrifice fly in the 10th to lift Gwinnett past Durham 5-4 on Friday night at Coolray Field. Leading 4-3 in the last of the 10th, the Stripers (14-16) put runners at first and third with one out against reliever Carlos Garcia (L, 1-1). Former National League batting champion Yuli Gurriel
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair of NASA pilots who will check out the spacecraft during the test drive and a
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