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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The initial impact of the crash happened in Hickory city limits. The car was pushed by the train into Long View town limits.
- Nora O'Neill The Charlotte Observer
Twenty-five district schools earned A or B performance grades.
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He was found sitting in a chair by the river with two firearms and an empty liquor bottle.
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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 ...
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It didn’t take Malachi Toney long on Friday night to remind the college football world just how good he is. After his record-setting freshman year helped the Miami Hurricanes reach the College Football Playoff National Championship Game last season, the star wide receiver opened his sophomore campaign with 12 catches for 234 yards and three touchdowns as No. 7 UM routed the Stanford Cardinal ...
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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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UNC Greensboro head coach Janelle Breneman has hired Jonathan Lynch as softball assistant coach, bringing eight years of collegiate and elite fastpitch experience.
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UNCG women’s soccer earned a 2-1 road win over American, with goals from Avery Barr and Rina Ogimoto and six saves from goalkeeper Blythe Clark.
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North Carolina education leaders set a review timeline for the proposed merger of Hickory, Newton-Conover, and Catawba County school systems in late 2026.
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