New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 6 Enlarge this image toggle caption Chris Parsons/Courtesy of the artist Chris Parsons/Courtesy of the artist NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers take you on a tour of the most exciting albums out Friday, Sept. 6, including a album-length collaboration between rapper LL Cool J and producer Q-Tip. Among the week's …
LOS ANGELES — Kiki Rice scored 20 points, Gabriela Jaquez added 17 and second-seeded UCLA cruised to an 84-55 victory over California Baptist on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. You just added another elite defender to an elite defensive team, so it was a tough night for us in that way.” Rice hit a pair of …
RALEIGH, N.C. — A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to accept it, hundreds of thousands of adults in North Carolina are set to receive benefits, a development that boosters say will aid hospitals and local economies in addition to the long-term uninsured. North Carolina elected officials agreed this year to expand …
A suspect is wanted in the shooting of a 6-year-old after a ball rolled into his yard toggle caption Gaston County Police Authorities are still looking for the suspect who shot a 6-year-old girl and several others after a basketball rolled into his yard. Police in Gaston County, N.C., say 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary shot three individuals shortly before 8 …
RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Gov. The Department of Health and Human Services temporarily shut down Ace Speedway, a small stock car racetrack in Alamance County, in June 2020 after it repeatedly defied Cooper’s executive order limiting outdoor crowds to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The appeals court unanimously upheld a January 2021 …