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  • Maroon Creek Road at Highlands reopens

    Maroon Creek Road at Highlands reopens

    Update: As of 3:48 p.m., all lanes of Maroon Creek Road are open. Winter conditions continue to exist and drivers are asked to use extra caution.

    A multiple vehicle accident has closed Maroon Creek Road in both directions at Highlands…

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  • University of North Carolina Athletics

    University of North Carolina Athletics

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  • From Pipeline to Primo: Andrew Alvidrez enters a new Unleash the Beast Season

    From Pipeline to Primo: Andrew Alvidrez enters a new Unleash the Beast Season

    Before Andrew “Primo” Alvidrez ever nodded his head under PBR arena lights, before the music hit and the crowd rose, he was waking up before dawn in West Texas, cutting and grooving pipe beneath a sun that didn’t care what you…

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  • More than 100,000 heed King Charles’s call to action on cancer – The Times

    More than 100,000 heed King Charles’s call to action on cancer – The Times

    1. More than 100,000 heed King Charles’s call to action on cancer  The Times
    2. King ‘deeply touched’ by reaction to cancer TV message, says Palace  BBC
    3. King Charles shares cancer recovery milestone in TV message  CNN
    4. King Charles eases Prince William’s…

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  • KC knows its way around a bird. Here are 5 spots serving fried chicken worth getting your hands greasy for.

    KC knows its way around a bird. Here are 5 spots serving fried chicken worth getting your hands greasy for.

    When times are good, there’s fried chicken. When you’re down on your luck, there’s fried chicken. As food costs soar (with no end in sight), there’s still fried chicken.

    The beauty of a crisp, juicy drumstick or tender thigh…

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  • Israel says Hamas commander Raed Saed was among five killed in Gaza City attack

    Israel says Hamas commander Raed Saed was among five killed in Gaza City attack

    The Israeli military says it has killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saed, one of the architects of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, in a strike on a car in Gaza City.

    The attack on Saturday was the highest-profile assassination of a senior…

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  • PREVIEW: Women’s Basketball back in action Sunday at Quinnipiac

    PREVIEW: Women’s Basketball back in action Sunday at Quinnipiac

    ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine women’s basketball team faces off with Quinnipiac for the seventh…

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  • Arctic temperatures, snow and flooding sweep across the U.S.

    Arctic temperatures, snow and flooding sweep across the U.S.

    Wintry weather is sweeping across parts of the United States this weekend, bringing with it brutally low temperatures.

    Nearly 49 million people from the Northern Plains through the Southeast are under cold weather alerts. Impacted cities include…

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  • Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk now open for the season

    Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk now open for the season

    The first skiers and snowboarders of opening day wait at the front of a long line to load onto Exhibition Lift at Aspen Highlands on Dec. 18, 2020.
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    Aspen Snowmass opened Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk…

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