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Can the Carolina Panthers keep their momentum after beating the New Orleans Saints on Sunday at Bank of America Stadium? Also on Time Out For Sports, we look at the UNC Charlotte 49ers' loss to the Georgia State Panthers and preview a local high school game: Julius Chambers High vs. Hough High at Memorial Stadium. Plus, North Carolina's Brooklyn Harker plays three positions for her high school football team.
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Powerhouse Clemson fell to the Georgia Bulldogs at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday during the Duke’s Mayo Classic, but the bigger local news happened a few miles north when the Charlotte 49ers beat Duke University 31-28.
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Chris Reynolds threw for 324 yards with three touchdowns, including an 11-yard scoring strike to Shadrick Byrd with 33 seconds left and Charlotte knocked off Duke 31-28 on Friday night for the school’s first ever win against a Power Five team.
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Charlotte is in the midst of a tech boom. How much is UNC Charlotte's College of Computing and Informatics fueling the employee pipeline for companies relocating or expanding in Charlotte? Also in this week's BizWorthy: the religious exemption loophole for COVID-19 vaccinations and why single-family homes are being torn down in Ballantyne.
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The coronavirus is always changing and mutating, which has led to new strains like the highly contagious delta variant. One lab in Charlotte is coordinating with the Mecklenburg County Health Department to look for these variants and to try to predict the virus’ next local move.
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The University of North Carolina System has announced it will require all students attending any of the state’s 16 public colleges and universities to get a COVID-19 vaccine or face weekly testing. The standard will also soon apply to faculty and staff.
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Most students who attend colleges and universities in the Charlotte area will not be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when they return to class this fall.
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This past week: Outrage grew in Elizabeth City — along with national attention — over the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. by Pasquotank County deputies, especially after a judge delayed the public release of body camera footage in the case. A mass shooting in the Boone area left a married couple, two sheriff's deputies and the suspected gunman dead. North Carolina earned a 14th U.S. House seat after the 2020 census. And Apple picks the Raleigh area for its East Coast campus.
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At a ceremony Friday marking two years since a gunman killed two students at UNC Charlotte and injured four others, the school unveiled the design plan for a memorial to honor those who were affected by the tragedy.
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Every year at school budget time, UNC Charlotte education professor Walter Hart hears a similar question: "Why do you need more money? You’ve got the lottery." Lottery money for education is never as much as many people expect it to be. Hart and two colleagues analyzed why that happens.