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Amarion McCrae became the third Nash-Edgecombe County basketball player in a week to reach t… Read more
The N.C. Wesleyan College women’s basketball team held off a comeback bid by USA-South Confe… Read more
William Moore, a 170-pound wrestler at SouthWest Edgecombe High School, took first place in … Read more
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The N.C. Wesleyan College men’s basketball team held off their hard-charging rival Methodist… Read more
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Josephine Bridgers, I am sorry the Jan. 6 protest march on the Capitol horrified you. Read more
With Democrats’ multitrillion dollar Build Back Better initiative hitting a wall in the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden has suggested that components of the bill be advanced separately. Read more
If you’re confused by the timeline of North Carolina’s 2022 elections, you’re probably not the only one. But don’t worry, Republicans have a solution: changing the timeline yet again. Read more
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Impeachment. Like the snowflakes that flew last week in many parts of North Carolina, that word has been in the air in the state capital of late — darting here and there in wild and erratic patterns and, ultimately, depositing a kind of icy blanket on state government. Read more
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — When Markicia Horton graduates this spring from the Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston and takes the bar, she'll be stepping into a world where a Black woman is set to be on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in its 232-year history.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge resentenced “Tiger King” Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison on Friday, reducing his punishment by just a year despite pleas from the former zookeeper for leniency as he begins treatment for cancer.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker said Thursday that he’s staying in the Republican race for U.S. Senate, despite falling behind top rivals in fundraising and lacking former President Donald Trump’s endorsement for the seat.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to the consideration of race in college admission decisions, often known as affirmative action. With three new conservative justices on the court since its last review, the practice may be facing its greatest threat yet.
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Maren Lundby was the world's best female ski jumper for three years, starting in 2018 when she won Olympic gold in South Korea.
Wall Street ended a volatile week of trading Friday with a late-afternoon buying spree that gave the major stock indexes their biggest gains of the year and snapped a three-week losing streak.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in a deep-red state, was immersed in a difficult reelection campaign when he received a text message from the head of the state police: Troopers had engaged in “a violent, lengthy struggle” with a Black motorist, ending with…
