By WRAL Staff Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WRAL) — Tear gas was used to stop a large fight that broke out during a basketball tournament at Wake Technical Community College’s Northern Wake campus on Wednesday night. The fight interrupted a final game in the 49th John Wall Holiday Invitational
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By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn coach Dan Hurley was reveling in the return of basketball this season _ the ability to travel to a tournament his team played in the Bahamas, the loud crowds at home and away games _ when just before Christmas he began feeling sick. Like
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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging Germans to pull together to defeat the coronavirus in 2022 and promising to react “quickly and decisively” to the advance of the omicron variant. In his first televised New Year message since taking over from longtime leader Angela Merkel three weeks ago,
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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging Germans to pull together to defeat the coronavirus in 2022 and promising to react “quickly and decisively” to the advance of the omicron variant. In his first televised New Year message since taking over from longtime leader Angela Merkel three weeks ago,
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lawyer for a doughnut truck driver accused of feeing after fatally hitting a man walking in the street says his client should not face charges because he was completely unaware he had struck the person. Henderson resident Jeffrey Dungo was charged with failing to stop at an accident Tuesday morning.
Continue ReadingBy Keenan Willard Click here for updates on this story NEWTON GROVE, North Carolina (WRAL) — Two years after losing his son to illness, Sampson County native Kevin Brown has channeled his grief into a new calling — becoming the Grinch of Eastern North Carolina. Brown has raised thousands of dollars to sponsor families during
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN American Girl’s latest “Girl of the Year” doll is the line’s first of Chinese descent. The popular doll manufacturer unveiled Corinne Tan, a Chinese American skier, as its 2022 Girl of the Year on Thursday. “Girl of the Year” dolls, which were introduced in 2001, differ from other American Girl dolls
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN A traveler isolated for Covid-19 at a quarantine facility in New Zealand managed to infect three others across a hallway, researchers reported Thursday. Closed-circuit camera footage, genetic testing and careful contact tracing show that the only conceivable way the virus could have passed from one room to another was in air
Continue Reading DELAND, Fla. — Rob Perry had 22 points as Stetson topped Point University 77-65. Lorenzo Freeman Jr led the Skyhawks on Thursday with 28 points.
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer DeMarcus Ware, Andre Johnson and Devin Hester are finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s class of 2022 all in their first year of eligibility. The 15 modern-day players who will be considered on Jan. 18 by the selection committee include tackle Tony Boselli and defensive lineman
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, Steve Almasy and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Hundreds of homes have been lost after two wildfires started and grew quickly Thursday as high winds whipped through the Front Range in Colorado, forcing tens of thousands of residents from their homes, the Boulder County sheriff said. Sheriff Joe Pelle estimated 580 homes or other
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spoke frankly by phone for nearly an hour late Thursday about the Russian troop buildup near Ukraine. It was a new round of leader-to-leader talks as the Kremlin has stepped up its calls for security guarantees and
Continue Reading RENO, Nev. (AP) — A winter storm warning has been issued for southeast Nevada and the mountains west of Las Vegas through Friday afternoon. A winter weather advisory runs through 10 p.m.Friday in parts of east-central and northeast Nevada, where overnight lows could drop into the negative teens by the weekend. Five to 10 inches
Continue Reading RENO, Nev. (AP) — A winter storm warning has been issued for southeast Nevada and the mountains west of Las Vegas through Friday afternoon. A winter weather advisory runs through 10 p.m.Friday in parts of east-central and northeast Nevada, where overnight lows could drop into the negative teens by the weekend. Five to 10 inches
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Betty White dice que Ryan Reynolds simplemente no puede superarla. Los dos protagonizaron la película de 2009 “The Proposal”, y desde entonces Reynolds ha estado llamando públicamente a White su “exnovia”. La icónica actriz respondió en una entrevista con People: “Escuché que Ryan no puede superar lo que le pasa conmigo,
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA postponed Golden State’s game with Denver on Thursday, the same day that Philadelphia’s Doc Rivers and Denver’s Michael Malone entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols. That raised the total number of head coaches on that virus-related list to seven. Rivers and Malone join the Los Angeles
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA postponed Golden State’s game with Denver on Thursday, the same day that Philadelphia’s Doc Rivers and Denver’s Michael Malone entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols. That raised the total number of head coaches on that virus-related list to seven. Rivers and Malone join the Los Angeles
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA postponed Golden State’s game with Denver on Thursday, the same day that Philadelphia’s Doc Rivers and Denver’s Michael Malone entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols. That raised the total number of head coaches on that virus-related list to seven. Rivers and Malone join the Los Angeles
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN) — El príncipe Andrés apenas fue mencionado de paso en el juicio por tráfico sexual de la socialité británica Ghislaine Maxwell en Nueva York. Pero el hecho de que los jurados la hayan declarado culpable de cinco de los seis cargos relacionados con su papel en los abusos sexuales de Jeffrey
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Both the House of Representatives and the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to deny former President Donald Trump’s attempt to keep secret more than 700 pages of records that pertain to January 6. RELATED: Why the new legal attack from Trump allies against the
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