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TODAY.com
Retired Teacher Reconnects With Former Students in Sweet Way
Tricia Johnson taught kindergarten at Matoaca Elementary School for more than 20 years before retiring in 2004. Recently, she took up a new assignment: sending care packages filled with old photos, classwork and a poem to all of her former students. The remarkably kind act has reconnected her with more than one hundred of her students and has inspired her to reunite with all of them before she dies. She sits down with TODAY's Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones to explain why this project is so important to her and the children she once taught, share the outpouring of love she's received in return, and then she gets the surprise of a lifetime in Studio 1A.
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Neuse News
Lenoir, Jones counties among those eligible for UMO AgPrime Grants
UMO AgPrime grants are available to farmers and agribusiness owners in Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Gates, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Montgomery, Moore, New Hanover, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Onslow, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Raleigh News & Observer
Feds escalate investigation of Duke med school admissions - after UNC made a deal
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has referred its findings about Duke University’s admissions processes in its medical school to the Justice Department — a move the health agency had said it would make if Duke didn’t comply. The Duke Chronicle first reported this story . The health department’s Office for Civil Rights announced the referral in a social media post last week. HHS accused Duke’s medical school on Sept. 8 of using racial proxies that still allow applicant reviewers to consider race, despite the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down affirmative action in college admissions. The result of Duke’s admissions process, HHS said in its letter to Duke , is that admitted Black students had statistically lower Medical College Admission Test, or MCAT, scores and GPAs than admitted white and Asian students. HHS also said Duke failed to produce explanations for the deviations when asked about them. Higher education experts have cast doubt on the legitimacy of the finding, questioning such statistical conclusions based on standardized test performance, The News & Observer previously reported . HHS’s letter to Duke says that “HHS regulations permit referral of matters to the United States Department of Justice if
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Rocky Mount Telegram
Ladybirds, Gryphons roll into third round of the flag football playoffs
BAILEY — The Southern Nash High School flag football team rolled into the third round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 1A-6A playoffs with a 48-6 triumph over Burlington Williams in a second-round game Saturday afternoon at home. The Ladybirds improved to 17-1 overall and will play Pamlico County (13-2) in a third-round contest at Eastern Guilford High School on Saturday. Williams, which advanced to the second round with a 19-18 victory over Franklinton, ended its season 6-2 overall. Southern Nash took a 7-0 lead with 9:08 left in the first quarter on a 16-yard touchdown run by Aliyah Croll and the conversion run by Leila Gonzalez. Alonna Beacham’s four-yard TD run and another Gonzalez conversion pushed the Ladybirds’ lead to 14-0 with 5:41 left in the quarter. Williams answered with a 70-yard TD pass from Lauryn Kimber to Heaven Carter to cut the deficit to 14-6. The Ladybirds essentially put the game out of reach with a 22-point second quarter. Janiyah Montague recorded a flag pull in the end zone for a safety with 6:52 remaining in the first half. Less than two minutes later, Gonzalez threw a 12-yard TD pass to Jayda Leonard and then