Art Walk on Union will feature more than 90 local artists and makers, and live performances throughout the afternoon on Union Street North near the Concord Library.
- Mark Price The Charlotte Observer
An ingenious inmate needed only a pencil to open his cell and escape from jail, according to investigators in South Carolina.
Hello, I’m David Hoffmann. Like many of you, I’ve been thinking a lot about our country, our communities and how we find our way back to one another.
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Rebuilding Interstate 40’s path through the Pigeon River Gorge after Hurricane Helene will cost about $2.8 billion — a 40% increase over a projection earlier this year.
- RICHARD CRAVER Winston-Salem Journal
The Mocksville plant will be just its second outside Ohio.
- RICHARD CRAVER Winston-Salem Journal
Novant Health Inc. core operating revenue was up 9.4% to $6.24 billion.
- Sarah C. Johnson
The city of Conover acquired a piece of the North Tower in 2011.
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Three firefighters were hurt, and a fire engine was heavily damaged during a “challenging” 24-hour period for first responders in North Carolina’s Rowan County.
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Scheyer was succinct in stating his goal for his fifth season as head coach: “Take that final step for a sixth banner in Durham and win a national championship.”
After an exciting Stanley Cup run, Carolina Hurricanes fans are eager to see how the team responds in a new season that starts this month.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — After approximately 30 years of mediocrity, Bill Armstrong had enough. The oil and gas billionaire knew SMU football's 1987 death penalty from the NCAA for illegally paying players was the catalyst for the program's generation-long downward spiral. But he believed the length of his alma mater's purgatory was somewhat self-imposed. "The first thing I had to do, to be ...
RV UNCG men’s soccer drew 1-1 at Dayton after a weather delay, with Caleb Borneo scoring in the first half before the Flyers equalized in the 76th minute.
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UNC Greensboro women’s golf heads to Caledonia Golf Club for the Golfweek Caledonia, featuring a 24-team field and a five-player Spartan lineup in stroke play.
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UNCG volleyball swept App State 3-0 at the Clemson Invitational, earning its first sweep of the season behind double-digit kills from Sweet, Lanclos and Siler-Nixon.
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UNC Greensboro head coach Mat Iandolo has named former men’s tennis standout Devon Moskowitz ’25 as an assistant coach for the Spartans’ women’s tennis program.
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Getting a movie made can cost a lot of money, so studios are apprehensive about greenlighting projects. Directors like Christopher Nolan get to skip to the front of the line.
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DEER LAKE, Canada — Geologist Kirsten Oravec is in her element. "This is a walk on the Earth's mantle. These are wonderfully strange rocks," she says, marveling at the Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park. The Earth's mantle, normally hidden deep beneath the Earth's crust, is the middle layer of the planet. The collision of continents "almost 500 million years ago" catapulted the interior to ...
ATHENS — Tourists from the U.S. are spending the most money per head on their trips to Greece — more than British, French, German and Italian visitors, figures from the Greek central bank show. According to August data from the Bank of Greece for the first half of 2026 and parsed by the Greek financial press, tourists from the U.S. spent an average of around €1,213 per person per trip to Greece ...
Whether you favor a quiet paddle, a deep dive or a shriek-inducing water park, why not center your next vacation around H2O? Here are five ideas to consider. Seabreeze Amusement Park, Rochester, N.Y. Lazy rivers, wave pools, log chutes and rip-tide slides. What more could a water-loving clan desire? And still, there is more for your family to enjoy with a visit to this park that also includes ...
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