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17 hours ago | charlotteobserver.com | T. Keung Hui

Carter Wall, right, participates in Kimberly Shaw's sixth-grade reading class at Reddy Creek Magnet Center for Digital Sciences in Cary on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. [email protected] Five years ago, the bottom fell out for millions of students like Carter Wall, when everything they knew about school changed. Carter, who has a learning disability, made the switch to online classes, and later in-person classes while wearing a face mask at Penny Road Elementary School in Cary.

17 hours ago | charlotteobserver.com | T. Keung Hui

Ariel Spencer, left, tutors a group of students at Joseph W. Grier Academy in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, March 9, 2023. [email protected] North Carolina schools will now have to continue post-pandemic recovery efforts without the benefit of billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 aid. Despite the loss of the one-time federal pandemic aid, education officials and researchers say there are still ways schools can continue the post-pandemic learning recovery.

17 hours ago | charlotteobserver.com | Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan |Avi Bajpai |Caitlyn Yaede

Good morning and welcome to Under the Dome.I'm Caitlyn Yaede. Up first, a dispatch from Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan on the state legislator honored for saving a woman's life. State Rep. Dean Arp received a standing ovation on the House floor Tuesday, for both helping a woman escape her burning home in February, and helping her to get a new home this month. Arp, a Union County Republican and top House budget writer, was driving through Richmond County with his wife when they passed a home on fire.

23 hours ago | charlotteobserver.com | Patrick Saunders

The director might have changed, but the Rox Show looks the same. In their second game under interim manager Warren Schaeffer, the Colorado Rockies' offense was once again a no-show in a 4-1 loss to the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night at Globe Field. Schaeffer was named interim manager on Sunday when Bud Black was fired.

23 hours ago | charlotteobserver.com | Nick Meyer

The Indiana Fever have become one of the most popular teams in the Women's National Basketball Association in the past year-plus during former Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark's time in Indianapolis. The Fever sold out Carver-Hawkeye Arena for an exhibition game recently against the Brazilian National Team that showed the depth, enthusiasm and breadth of Caitlin Clark's fanbase. Indiana's increased national footprint has led to big changes by the team, as announced on Tuesday.