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For the next two years, Campbell is home to a professional baseball team. Strange as it sounds, the Astros have found a home in Buies Creek.

The North Carolina Executive Mansion sits northeast of the hustle of downtown Raleigh in Burke Square, one of five green… More on this post

Jacob Morse could see the finish line. He’d endured four days of rigorous competition against the nation’s best and brightest… More on this post

The idea first hit Jerry M. Wallace in 2009, standing on the campus of a small private university in Mississippi… More on this post

It had been a few weeks, maybe months, after U.S. diplomat Richard Morefield returned home after 444 hellacious days as… More on this post

More Americans died from a drug overdose last year than from traffic accidents, and three out of five of those deaths involved a highly addictive opioid. In 2014, nearly 2 million Americans said they abused prescription pain pills, and nearly 20,000 of them died from an overdose. Another 10,000-plus died from heroin — an opiate that’s often the next step for prescription drug abusers searching for a stronger, cheaper fix.

If Matt Marksberry had any idea going in that professional baseball would take this kind of toll on his body — that it would throw at him not one, but two near-death experiences … well, he’d probably still do it all over again.

Maybe you’re like Harrington was at first — you don’t immediately recognize the name John D. Loudermilk. But if you were been a fan of popular music at any time between the 1960s and the 1990s, you probably know more than a few of his songs.

As Gaylord, Craig Lloyd literally plucked his Gladys (and his future wife) from a crowd By Leah Whitt When we… More on this post

Camels behind Students for Trump movement had an impact on the 2016 presidential election By Billy Liggett Few saw the… More on this post