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Gwinnett uses force, downs Durham, 5-3 :: WRALSportsFan.com

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

Gwinnett steals 5-4 extra inning win over Bulls :: WRALSportsFan.com

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

Boeing is on the verge of launching astronauts aboard new capsule, the latest entry to space travel

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

The bystander’s role is changing in the era of livestreaming. North Carolina’s standoff shows how

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Saing Chhoeun was locked out of his Charlotte, North Carolina, home on Monday as law enforcement with high-powered rifles descended into his yard and garage, using a car as a shield as they were met with a shower of gunfire from the direction of his neighbor’s house. As bullets flew just

After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as ‘the underground’

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor. “Bleeding doesn’t mean you need to go in,” Luna responded

As the US moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, could more states legalize it?

As the U.S. government moves toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, there may be little immediate impact in the dozen states that have not already legalized cannabis for widespread medical or recreational use by adults. But advocates for marijuana legalization hope a federal regulatory shift could eventually change the minds — and votes

No. 14 Alexander Central softball stuns No. 1 South Caldwell to claim conference tournament title

“It’s hard to beat a team three times” A saying in high school sports that is as old as time was taken to another level in Taylorsville. The latest chapter of the epic Alexander Central vs. South Caldwell softball rivalry was one of its most dramatic. A strike away from facing a season sweep, the

Trump Media’s newly hired auditing firm was just busted by the SEC for ‘massive fraud’

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged an auditing firm hired by Trump Media and Technology Group just 37 days ago with “massive fraud” — though not for any work it performed for former President Donald Trump’s media company. The SEC charged the accounting firm BF Borgers and its owner,

A senior UN official says northern Gaza is now in ‘full-blown famine’

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory. Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent

Extra Effort: Green Level’s Kat Geiser always “right there” for her teammates

One guarantee when you go to a Green Level High School softball game – you’re going to hear senior Kat Geiser. “Loud. I am constant energy, I love being out on the field,” Geiser said. She brings that energy to the game and to her teammates. “If anyone is on the bench and needs a