Duplin County Fire shrinks after rapid 600-acre expansion; handover to local crews at Chicken Farm Lane Fire; and Camp Lejeune blaze impacts Swansboro visibility.
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State Representative Chris Humphrey announced he met with cemetery management after several reports of large potholes, overgrown weeds, and severe flooding. The company has agreed to bring in local contractors over the next four to six weeks to fix the deteriorating roads.
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Eligible state employees will get 12 weeks paid leave for the birth, adoption, or placement of a child. Both mothers and fathers will be eligible.
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Organized alongside the America First Policy Institute, the tour aligns with the administration's broader push to return education decisions back to individual states.
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Mandy Wallace, MountainTrue’s artifact recovery technician, is helping storm survivors reclaim small pieces of what the flood carried away.
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Attorney General Jeff Jackson says cutting scammers off at the source will stop them from tricking consumers with legitimate numbers.
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For decades Hayes Baxley has pointed his camera at the wildest places on earth. Polar bears in the Arctic. Jaguars in Brazil. Among his favorites: the underwater assignments.
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One of the last hiking trails still closed after Hurricane Helene has reopened to visitors.
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The state’s Helene Disaster Case Management Program will now run through January 22, 2027.
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Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake served in congress alongside Lindsay Graham from 2013-2019. Despite moments of tension and disagreement, he says he and Sen. Graham were "friends to the end."
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NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Seth Jones from the Center for Strategic and International Studies about President Trump granting Ukraine permission to produce Patriot missiles.
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Baseball isn't just America's pastime, it's also the backdrop for many of our greatest sports movies.
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NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Andrew Iden, Executive Producer of Marked!: The Podcast, which examines Georgia's role in America's revolutionary period through the 2,000 roadside historical marker.
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Many people dream of extended summer reading time, but to really dig into books, you need steal any moment possible.
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Long lost tapes of an Oscar Peterson piano performance in Detroit take us back in time to the night the jazz session was recorded.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WVXU listener Debra Waller of Burlington, Kentucky.
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Longtime Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has died at the age of 71. The foreign policy hawk and former critic-turned-ally of President Trump was running for re-election in South Carolina.
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The U.S. strikes Iran again, after an attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.