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There’s no doubt it was hot outdoors the day José Arturo Gónzalez Mendoza died after falling ill while harvesting sweet potatoes from a Barnes Farming field in Nash County. The heat index, which factors in humidity with the temperature, measured 96 in that part of eastern North Carolina on Sept. 5, 2023. Scientists say there are more modern metrics that can measure the wind speed and direct

The N.C. Department of Transportation has received a $1 billion federal grant to begin building the high-speed passenger train line that will eventually run between Raleigh and Richmond, Virginia. NCDOT will use the money in part to build new tracks, bridges and stations between downtown Raleigh and Wake Forest. That section of the new line will open first and will be used to extend the

NEW YORK -- The Indiana Fever selected former South Carolina star and 2022 Naismith Player of the Year Aliyah Boston with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 WNBA draft on Monday night at New York City's Spring Studios. Boston -- a 6-foot-5 forward who grew up in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands before moving to Massachusetts as a teenager to pursue her basketball dream -- became the

NORTH MANKATO — The North Mankato City Council set a preliminary tax rate increase of 1.5% for 2024, which equals a 13% higher tax levy compared to this year, but the increase can be whittled down before setting a final levy and budget in December. Local governments are required by state law to set a maximum, tentative levy and are then allowed to lower that number but not increase it when