Category Archives: WPTF News
World's oldest llama enjoys comforting chronically ill children in North Carolina
By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press A bucktoothed llama that spends his days comforting chronically ill children at a North Carolina camp founded by NASCAR royalty has been crowned the world's oldest ll...
Mar 05, 2025
Trump takes credit for 'swift and unrelenting' action in speech to Congress
By ZEKE MILLER and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump took credit for "swift and unrelenting action" in reorienting the nation's economy, immigration and forei...
Mar 04, 2025
North Carolina rolls to season-high 6th straight win, beats Virginia Tech behind season-high 15 3s
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Ven-Allen Lubin collected his first double-double as a Tar Heel and Ian Jackson hit five of North Carolina's season-high 15 3-pointers while scoring 19 points in a 91-59 victory...
Mar 04, 2025
James Harrison, Australian blood donor whose 'golden arm' helped save 2.4 million babies, dies at 88
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - An Australian man credited with saving 2.4 million babies through his record-breaking blood plasma donations over six decades, has died, his...
Mar 04, 2025
The Florida attorney general's office is investigating Andrew and Tristan Tate
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's attorney general announced Tuesday that his office has opened a criminal investigation into Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romani...
Mar 04, 2025
North Carolina lawmakers close in on another injection of Helene relief funds
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina state Senate Republicans advanced a disaster recovery measure Tuesday to direct $533 million in additional spending to meet st...
Mar 04, 2025
Zelenskyy calls Oval Office spat with Trump 'regrettable,' says he's ready to work for Ukraine peace
By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that the Oval Office blowup with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump last week w...
Mar 04, 2025
Zelenskyy leaves White House without signing minerals deal after Oval Office blowup
By WILL WEISSERT, ZEKE MILLER and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being "disrespectful" Friday in an extraord...
Feb 28, 2025
To her, Hurricane Helene debris isn't trash. It is full of memories - and she's returning them
By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) - The tops of dried, bent cornstalks crunch underfoot. Jill Holtz's gaze is fixed on the ground ahead. She wanders into the nearby woods and we...
Feb 28, 2025
A stretch of a North Carolina highway that collapsed during Helene is about to reopen
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A stretch of Interstate 40 through the western North Carolina mountains is reopening to traffic this weekend, months after Hurricane Helene's historic flooding collapsed porti...
Feb 28, 2025