Category Archives: WPTF News
State warns against trash burning
RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) - With spring on its way, environmental officials are warning that state law bans the open burning of trash, metal, plastic and all other man-made materials which provide a he...
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Multiple gunshots fired near Rihanna's LA home and a woman is taken into custody
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots near the home of Grammy-Award winning performer Rihanna, according to police and news reports. No one was injur...
Mar 09, 2026 FILE - Rihanna attends the 2025 CFDA Awards at The American Museum of Natural History on November 03, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
State audit: City manager in Rocky Mount's spending choices were "unaccountable" for years
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (NCN News) -- The former City Manager of Rocky Mount operated "unchecked" and went "unaccountable for years" resulting in millions of dollars overspent for the city creating signific...
Mar 09, 2026 Rocky Mount is a city in Edgecombe and Nash counties in the Atlantic coastal plain region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo 'supply chain risk' designation
By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon's decision designating the artificial intelligence company a " supply ch...
Mar 09, 2026 In this illustration, the Claude AI app is seen in the app store on a phone on February 16, 2026 in New York City. According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, the Defense Department used Anthropic's Claude Ai, via its Palantir contract, to help with the attack on Venezuela and capture former President Nicolás Maduro. (Photo illustration by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Justice Department and Live Nation reach settlement over illegal monopoly case
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department lawyers announced Monday that they'd reached a settlement in their antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent c...
Mar 09, 2026 FILE - The Ticketmaster logo is seen along the sideline of the field before an NFL football game, Sept. 15, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
'Country' Joe McDonald, '60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - "Country" Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that...
Mar 08, 2026 Singer-songwriter Country Joe McDonald performs at the Vietnam War Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library, in Austin, Texas, Thursday, April 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father as supreme leader and Saudi sharpens warning
By JON GAMBRELL, SAM METZ, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran's late supreme leader, has been named as the Islamic Repub...
Mar 08, 2026 A man carries shoes from his destroyed house that was hit by Israeli airstrikes hit several houses in Sir al-Gharbiyeh village south Lebanon, Sunday, March, 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Pixar's 'Hoppers' bounds to No. 1 as Warner Bros.' 'The Bride!' is on life support
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Disney and Pixar's environmental adventure "Hoppers" topped the North American box office this weekend with $46 million in domestic ticket sales in its opening weekend, ...
Mar 08, 2026 Piper Curda attends the world premiere of Disney and Pixar's HOPPERS at El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, California on February 23, 2026. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Disney)
Japan rallies late to beat Australia 4-3, clinches first place in group at World Baseball Classic
Defending champion Japan became the first nation to clinch a quarterfinal berth in the World Baseball Classic, then rallied on Masataka Yoshida's two-run homer in the seventh inning to beat Australia ...
Mar 08, 2026 Japan's Masataka Yoshida, center, reacts after hitting two-run home run during the seventh inning of a World Baseball Classic game between Japan and Australia on Sunday, March 8, 2026 in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
NC Rural Center program aims to help rural churches strengthen their communities
RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) - Churches are often among the most visible and enduring institutions in rural North Carolina, and a program from the NC Rural Center is helping congregations turn that presen...
Mar 08, 2026 Closed church at old main street of Ortley (Getty Images)