“Appreciate everything while you’re in high school because it will be the best four years of your life and the time will fly by.” That is what everyone tells you when you first start freshman year; but of course, you don’t listen or take it seriously. Well at least I know I didn’t. At that point in time, life was
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Unless you have been living in complete isolation from society for the past six months, you have definitely heard of the newest video game to take over the gaming community. All around the world, kids and adults of all ages are obsessing over this popular, free-to-play Battle Royale type game which can be played on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. A
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A new policy has recently been approved by the Wake County school board that will prevent Wake County school employees from communicating electronically with students unless they use district-controlled services to do so. There are a few limited exceptions outlined in the policy for when a school employee may use a personal device to contact a student, and this must
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Spring has been in session for a few weeks now, and that can only mean one thing; baseball season is here. Many rosters have been shaken up a bit over the offseason, some for the better and some for the worse, but we will still have to wait and see how all of the new faces will adjust to their
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Audio: Article: With just a few more weeks remaining in both the NBA and NHL seasons, fans are excited to see which teams will and won’t make the upcoming playoffs as the race to make it to the postseason begins to come to an end. As usual this late in the season, both the NBA and NHL have teams with
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There have been recent reports of a relatively new and unstudied contaminant found in the Cape Fear River in Wilmington known as “GenX,” which are known carcinogens and toxins. The chemical has been detected in rainwater, groundwater, crops, and some wells all over the Wilmington area due to a company called “Chemours” dumping GenX in the Cape Fear River for
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It is no secret that there have been some recent issues involving high-school senior yearbook quotes in not just Wake County but all over the United States. With inappropriate and offensive quotes – ranging from racist, sexist, or sexual remarks – parents and schools are obviously not thrilled by these insensitive quotes and the apparent lack of a yearbook-quote review
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On the night of February 4, 2018, a majority of NFL fans got exactly what they wanted; to see Tom Brady and the Patriots lose yet another Super Bowl after being regarded as the favored team in the match. After 1,151 total yards (the most in any NFL game ever), seventy-four points, a few lead changes, and a nail-biting finish
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After performing over three thousand concerts in over seventy-five different countries since 1970, pop/rock/fashion icon Elton John is officially retiring from touring, right after he performs roughly another three hundred concerts spread throughout five different continents over the next three years, beginning later this year in Pennsylvania on September 8. John announced his retirement during a New York press conference
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A group of researchers decided to take a trip to a small remote island located in the Pacific Ocean, and what they discovered upon arrival is both mesmerizingly beautiful and frightening. The researchers were shocked to find an estimated thirty-eight million pieces of trash, mostly plastic, filling the sandy beaches of Henderson Island, which has been designated a World Heritage
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