Category Archives: WPTF News
Feds: Man accused in apparent assassination attempt left note indicating he intended to kill Trump
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left behind a note detailing...
Sep 23, 2024
Andy Dalton’s success in win over the Raiders increases concern about Bryce Young
By STEVE REED AP Sports WriterCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Carolina Panthers’ stunning 36-22 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday showed coach Dave Canales was correct when he said Andy Da...
Sep 23, 2024
Harris owns a gun? Trump wants to cap credit card rates? Party lines blur in campaign’s last stretch
By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political WriterNEW YORK (AP) - One presidential candidate is talking up gun ownership and promising tough border security measures. The other vows to cap credit card inte...
Sep 23, 2024
UNC’s Mack Brown ‘disappointed in me’ after locker-room comments following James Madison loss
By AARON BEARD AP Sports WriterCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina’s Mack Brown said Monday he was "disappointed in me" for making emotional postgame locker-room comments - including whether...
Sep 23, 2024
‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated PressWYOMING, Iowa (AP) - Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that...
Sep 23, 2024
In Iran, the old-time US radio detective ‘Johnny Dollar’ returns to the airwaves
By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated PressTEHRAN, Iran (AP) - While tensions remain high between the U.S. and Iran, there’s at least one American that state radio in Tehran invites on th...
Sep 23, 2024
Hezbollah hits back with rockets as it declares an ‘open-ended battle’ with Israel
By NATALIE MELZER and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated PressNAHARIYA, Israel (AP) - Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa, as Israel ...
Sep 22, 2024
NC State economist Dr. Michael Walden discusses AI’s economic impact and potential disruptions
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) - Artificial intelligence has the potential to make our jobs easier and significantly boost productivity and spur economic growth as well as disrupt the labor market and increase ...
Sep 22, 2024
Beer and merriment flow at the 189th Oktoberfest in Munich
MUNICH (AP) - Bridie O’Halloran drank the first beer of her life at Oktoberfest.The 19-year-old Australian pronounced it "the best I’ve had" after finishing roughly a quarter of her l...
Sep 22, 2024
The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated PressPORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Fall is back, and bringing with it jack-o’-lanterns, football, pumpkin spice everything and - in some parts of the country - especially ...
Sep 22, 2024