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Girls Lacrosse Rankings: Pinecrest the lone newcomer as Bishop McGuinness falls out

The HighSchoolOT girls lacrosse rankings are staying steady as the playoffs near. The top 11 remains unchanged from a week ago, but Myers Park fell from 12th to 16th this week and Laney dropped from 15th to 18th. Union Pines skipped from 18th to 15th. Union Pines’ rival, Pinecrest, was the lone newcomer to this

When red-hot isn’t enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level

WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget about red hot. A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer. The National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday — Earth Day — presented a new online heat risk system that

Baseball Rankings: Top teams continue to rise, D.H. Conley breaks into Top-10 after big week

D.H. Conley claimed the first of two can’t miss showdowns with J.H. Rose to move into the Top-10 of this week’s HighSchoolOT statewide baseball rankings. Reagan and Wesleyan Christian enter back into the Top-25 after nice bounce-back performances from spring break tournament losses. In the area code rankings, eight new teams join the fold including

Report urges fixes to online child exploitation CyberTipline before AI makes it worse

A tipline set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation has not lived up to its potential and needs technological and other improvements to help law enforcement go after abusers and rescue victims, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory has found. The fixes to what the researchers describe as an “enormously

Biden administration tightens rules for obtaining medical records related to abortion

WASHINGTON (AP) — The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal, under a new rule that the Biden administration finalized Monday. The regulation, which is intended to protect women who live in states where abortion is illegal from prosecution,

Transfer portal tracker for Duke UNC NC State basketball :: WRALSportsFan.com

By WRAL The transfer portal window for college basketball is open for most players. Some men’s basketball players have made their intentions known. Here’s a look at which players are on the move from (and who is coming to) North Carolina, NC State and Duke. Duke Duke has had seven players enter the transfer portal

The EU ratchets up pressure on TikTok’s new rewards app over risks to kids, warns of suspension

LONDON (AP) — The European Union on Monday demanded TikTok provide more information about a new app that pays users to watch videos and warned that it could order the video sharing platform to suspend addictive features that pose a risk to kids. The 27-nation EU’s executive Commission said it was opening formal proceedings to

Breakdancer with bright smile ready to rock Paris Olympics :: WRALSportsFan.com

Sunny Choi has a name that fits her disposition, she has a bright personality with a shiny smile to match. So you might be surprised to find out she is one of the fiercest breakers out there, as the sport debuts at the Olympics this summer. Show Transcript I dance with a really big smile

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

BEIJING (AP) — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace

European Space Agency adds 5 new astronauts in only fourth class since 1978. Over 20,000 applied

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astronomy, meteorology, robotics, and Russian. On Monday, the five Europeans and an Australian graduated from basic training