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March 9, 2025
The N.C. High School Athletic Association boys lacrosse playoffs began Wednesday with some opening round games, but everyone’s in action this Friday and Saturday. In this playoff preview we hand out bracket superlatives, give four favorites and one dark horse for each bracket half, and even make championship predictions (that we’re sure nobody will have
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, remnants of Halley’s comet, peaks this weekend. And with just a waning crescent moon in the sky, it should be visible. The Eta Aquarids occur every year in early May. This year’s peak activity happens early Sunday with an expected 10 to 30 meteors visible per hour
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Apple on Thursday disclosed its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset, deepening a slump that’s increasing the pressure on the trendsetting company to spruce up its products with more artificial intelligence. The 10% drop in year-over-year iPhone sales for the January-March period is latest sign of weakness in a product that
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China on Friday launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. It is the latest advance in China’s increasingly sophisticated space exploration program, which is now competing
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President Joe Biden speaks at the Detroit Auto Show in Michigan in 2022. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration finalized guardrails for its electric vehicle tax credit on Friday that keep President Joe Biden’s EV adoption goals in sight but are likely to draw challenges from critics on both sides of the
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LONDON (AP) — A High Court judge ruled Friday that the U.K. government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence that it could be delivered. It was the second time in two years that the government’s main climate action plan was found to be unlawful and insufficient in meeting
READ MOREMILLS RIVER, N.C. — To help win the Mountain 7 Conference, West Henderson senior Truitt Manuel had to first step up to close out a Wednesday night game against rival North Henderson. On Thursday, the N.C. State recruit was back on the bump to clinch the title outright. Manuel struck out 12 batters in a
READ MOREMILLS RIVER, N.C. — West Henderson had already locked up the Mountain 7 Conference title, so a Senior Night win against Tuscola on Thursday was icing on the celebratory cake. The Falcons held off the Mountaineers by a 5-3 score. West Henderson (18-2, 11-1) took its first lead in the first on a Lashea Morlu
READ MOREASHEVILLE, N.C. — There was never a doubt for Franklin softball on Thursday. The Panthers closed out the regular season with a 17-7 road nonconference victory at T.C. Roberson. Franklin (15-3, 9-3) jumped out to a 9-0 lead after the first inning, punctuated the bottom half of the inning as Avery Moffit threw out T.C.
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HONOLULU (AP) — Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of last summer’s deadly Maui wildfires, they would have used other methods to warn about the disaster, county officials said in a lawsuit. Alerts the county sent to cellphones warning people to immediately evacuate were never received, unbeknownst to the county,
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