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Northeastern, Pasquotank, Perquimans, win season openers; Currituck, Camden lose their openers
Editor's note: The following football game capsules from Friday night were compiled from information supplied to the MaxPreps website. Northeastern 58, Bertie 14 The Northeastern Eagles won their season opener against Bertie County on Friday, blasting the Falcons 58-14 in a non-conference game played in Elizabeth City. After getting down 8-0 in the first quarter,...
Cape Fear Valley Health offers free heath screenings, sports physicals at Umoja Festival
Cape Fear Valley Health is offering free health screenings during the 32nd Umoja Festival.Happening inside Smith Recreation at Seabrook Park near Fayetteville State University, the first-come, first-serve clinic is for the uninsured or underinsured. Following screenings, participants can meet with a doctor on-site to review their results and discuss any concerns.Cape Fear is also offering free sports physicals for adolescents -- just in time for the new school year.The health clinic will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.The festival, which runs until 5 p.m., will also include arts, entertainment, food trucks and cultural events.
Junior A’maree Evans Leads the Way for East Chapel Hill in Opening Win
It was opening night for both East Chapel Hill High School and Cedar Ridge High School’s football teams on Friday, August 23. The two teams who finished the 2023-2024 school year winless in football, but that changed after the fourth quarter ended for Coach Larry Stroud and his Wildcats. The team in black and white won by a score of 32-12 against Cedar Ridge away from home.
Truitt reflects on reading, innovation and politics in her NC superintendent term
One of North Carolina Superintendent Catherine Truitt’s big wins during her four-year term was the General Assembly’s 2021 vote to mandate changes in the way students are taught to read. In 2021, a few months after Truitt took office, lawmakers mandated that all elementary and pre-kindergarten teachers take...
D.G. Martin: Take steps to help favorite candidates succeed
Have you decided how you are going to vote in the upcoming election? Even if you have decided between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, there is more to do before you can do your duty on Election Day. There are more offices that will need your vote: secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, attorney general, agriculture commissioner, labor commissioner, insurance commissioner, state senator, state representative,...
Pack Closes Opening Weekend Perfect
RALEIGH, N.C. -- NC State men's soccer tallied its second win on Sunday afternoon over Florida Gulf Coast with another late goal to seal the victory. The Pack closed out the opening weekend of regular season soccer with another win to go perfect with their two opening games. Both Thursday night against High Point and Sunday evening against Florida Gulf Coast came down to the final minutes to decide the game.
Man killed, woman injured in Durham shooting on Avondale Drive
A man was killed and a woman was injured Sunday in a shooting near businesses at Avondale Drive and North Roxboro Street. Around 4:20 a.m., an officer with the Durham Police Department was off-duty when he heard gunshots in the 2200 block of Avondale Drive, according to police. The officer,...
Northeastern, Pasquotank, Perquimans, win season openers; Currituck, Camden lose their openers
Editor's note: The following football game capsules from Friday night were compiled from information supplied to the MaxPreps website. Northeastern 58, Bertie 14 The Northeastern Eagles won their season opener against Bertie County on Friday, blasting the Falcons 58-14 in a non-conference game played in Elizabeth City. After getting down 8-0 in the first quarter,...
Bystanders pull driver from fiery crash in Southern Pines
A driver was airlifted to the hospital Sunday after bystanders pulled the person from a fiery crash in Southern Pines. Around 12:30 a.m., emergency responders arrived at a single-car crash at the intersection of U.S. Highway 1 and Murray Hill Road. Crews at the scene told WRAL News the vehicle...
Before he was famous, a teenage J. Cole was a skating rink mascot in Fayetteville
Editor's note: This story, originally published in The Fayetteville Observer on Aug. 16, 2001, was written as part of the Observer's summer series "On the Job." In this installment, Round-A-Bout Skating Center employee Jermaine Cole, now Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist J. Cole, talks about his experience as the Roller Roo mascot. Cole was 16 at the time this story was published. When you're Fayetteville's premier party animal, you expect to put up with a few small problems. ...
Warriors bow 35-14 at Northern Nash
ROCKY MOUNT — A Hunt High varsity football team young in most spots showed promise but not enough to unseat host Northern Nash in Friday night’s season-opening clash at “Death Valley.” The Warriors of the 3-A Quad County Conference stayed with the 2-A/3-A Big East Conference Knights, who have played in the last two NCHSAA 3-A East Region championship games, […] The post Warriors bow 35-14 at Northern Nash first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
Mourning, white-winged dove season opens on Sept. 2
The 2024-25 hunting season for mourning and white-winged doves opens Monday, Sept. 2. The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) reminds seasoned and novice hunters about the importance of being properly licensed, observing state and federal regulations and following safe hunting practices. Dove hunting season will be separated into three segments: Sept. 2-Oct. 5, Nov. 9 -Nov. 30 and Dec. 16-Jan. 31, 2025. The daily bag limit is 15 mourning or...
UNC Football: We Appreciate Your Patience
Please continue to hold; a representative will be with you shortly. Football has always been an all-or-nothing sport. The players that suit up every week of the season do so knowing that there is a tightrope that they walk, one where anything less than total commitment will lead to a fall. You have to make a commitment to a team, to step up and be ready when the play comes your way. You have to make a commitment to the coach who is trusting you to do what you’ve been training to do all offseason. You have to make a commitment to make that first tackle, that first shot you get at someone wearing a different jersey. If any of that commitment falters, you’re watching your season crumble. You’re watching from the sidelines. You’re watching your man streak down the sideline for six. You’re stuck waiting, watching for an opportunity that may not come again. Sometimes it shakes out that way—sometimes the parting memory is a painful one.
'Be careful who you trust': Grandmother's warning following death of special needs grandson left in car
Woman remembers grandson who died after being left alone in a car for hours. A grandmother is issuing a warning Saturday after the tragic death of her grandson with special needs. Dontarious Batts, who was nonverbal and autistic, died after being left in a car by his caretaker outside Cleveland...
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