Category Archives: WPTF News
Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and family among 7 killed in North Carolina plane crash
By ALLEN G. BREED and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A business jet crashed Thursday while trying to return to a North Carolina airport shortly after takeoff, killing all ...
Dec 18, 2025
Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a leader in education reform, dies at 88
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a towering figure in North Carolina politics in the late 20th century who helped the Democratic Party...
Dec 18, 2025
Trump signs executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new...
Dec 18, 2025
Tennessee governor pardons country star Jelly Roll, who has sought redemption from criminal past
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's governor pardoned country star Jelly Roll on Thursday for his criminal past in the state, acknowledging the Nashville native's ...
Dec 18, 2025
Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children
By ALI SWENSON, MATTHEW PERRONE and DEVI SHASTRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to eff...
Dec 18, 2025
Trump in White House speech says US economy is strengthening, despite weaker hiring and inflation
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump tried in a live speech Wednesday night from the White House to convince the American people that they are wrong to worry about th...
Dec 17, 2025
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau's No 2 official
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashe...
Dec 17, 2025
The Lumbee Tribe's federal recognition is assured with a final push by Trump
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina achieved a goal more than a century in the making on Wednesday when it secured federal recognition as a tribal nation through t...
Dec 17, 2025
China exploits US-funded research on nuclear technology, a congressional report says
By DAVID KLEPPER and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - China is exploiting partnerships with U.S. researchers funded by the Department of Energy to provide the Chinese military with access ...
Dec 17, 2025
'Buck Rogers' star Gil Gerard dies at 82
Gil Gerard, who played television's hunky sci-fi hero William "Buck" Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82. Gerard died Tuesday in hospice as a res...
Dec 17, 2025