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By Ahmed Jallow NC Newsline Editors note: This is the first of a series of stories NC Newsline is doing in September for Suicide Prevention Month. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org On a Tuesday afternoon in July, inside The Bar Ber Shop in

By: Chris Lamb The Conversation John Rivers, John Bailey, David Middleton, Leroy Major and Buck Godfrey - all teammates from the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Star team - left Charleston, South Carolina, on a bus on Aug. 18, 2025. After a stop at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, for a couple days - where their story is included in an exhibit on Black baseball

[caption id="attachment_13449" align="alignnone" width="1440"] Hampton infielder Mo'ne Davis (3) fields a ground ball during an NCAA game (AP Photo/Mike Caudill)[/caption] AP NEWS-Hundreds of women will flock to Washington on Friday to take their first swings at turning pro baseball dreams into reality. Some at the historic tryout will be seasoned veterans and trailblazers in the women's game. Plenty others are beginners chasing a shot at the pros. They'll meet on

[caption id="attachment_13469" align="alignnone" width="1536"] Teachers at a WakeEd Partnership event Aug. 21, 2025: (Photo by Ahmed Jallow/NCNewsline)[/caption] By: Ahmed Jallow NC Newsline Justin Lane teaches agriculture electives at Carnage Magnet Middle School in Wake County, where students plant, measure and diagram their own gardens. That means his classroom needs a diverse toolkit. Scissors to trim plants, construction paper to draw plants, identifying rulers to measure growth, and a lot of

By Nick de la Canal  WFAE North Carolina lawmakers return to Raleigh this week to continue hammering out the state budget, and one of the biggest questions hanging over them is the future of Medicaid expansion. Nearly 680,000 North Carolinians have gained coverage since the program launched in 2023. But President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," the sweeping tax and spending package signed into law earlier this summer, could put

NC Newsline - Requiring people who register to vote to reveal their full Social Security numbers, as North Carolina legislators have proposed, would violate a 50-year-old federal law, election and privacy experts told NC Newsline.  The requirement that voter applicants supply all nine digits of Social Security numbers to register is in the latest version of House bill 958, a sweeping bill on election changes moving through the House.  The

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1100"] North Carolina school buses are ready to roll out for the start of the 2025-26 school year. (Photo: NCDPI)[/caption] NC Newsline-The first test of the new school year rolls out on Monday as thousands of students wait anxiously for their designated school bus to pick them up and transport them to school on time. It's such a routine event, few students or parents truly appreciate the

NEW YORK (AP) - Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the United States this week as part of President Donald Trump's agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global trade with tariffs. An executive order signed last month eliminates a widely used customs exemption for international shipments worth $800 or less starting Friday, nearly two years earlier than the deadline set in the

WASHINGTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency could look significantly different by next year's hurricane season, with state and local governments shouldering more of the responsibility for natural disaster response and recovery. Members of both political parties have long criticized FEMA, but a bipartisan bill moving along in Congress combined with President Donald Trump's disdain for the agency may provide momentum for a big shift in emergency management. Trump has

NC Newsline - Medicaid enrollees began receiving letters from hospitals last month telling them their old medical debts have been erased.   That medical debt relief is part of the program former Gov. Roy Cooper and the former head of the state Department of Health and Human Services announced last year that increases hospitals'  Medicaid payments in exchange for erasing debts amassed by people with lower incomes.  Debt relief letters