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The East Burke girls and Freedom boys secured high school basketball conference tournament championships with big wins on ...

The East Burke girls and Freedom boys secured high school basketball conference tournament championships with big wins on ...

The ouster of Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, only the second Black general to serve as Joint Chiefs chairman, is sure to send shock ...

A federal judge on Friday again blocked the Trump administration's cuts in medical research funding that many scientists say ...

Lesley University's Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel made NCAA history as the first Division III women’s basketball player with one ...

Ingles Market on Carbon City Road in Morganton is currently undergoing a remodel. The store will likely reopen in late spring ...

Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer whose rich, steady baritone graced such hits as "For Your Precious Love," "Only the Strong Survive" and "Make It Easy On Yourself," has died.

The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by unions on behalf of workers. They say the rush to dismantle the agency cut off some staffers overseas from emergency communications systems, ...

An idea first proposed on social media has received Trump's endorsement: Take some of the savings from Elon Musk's drive to cut government spending and return it to taxpayers.