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Federal shutdown ends, impact on NC lingers
- Title
- Federal shutdown ends, impact on NC lingers
- Runtime
- 21:25
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- On this new episode of The News & Observer's Under the Dome politics podcast for Nov. 18, 2025, host and Capitol bureau chief Dawn Vaughan talks with DC correspondent Danielle Battaglia about the end to the federal government shutdown and funding restarting, plus how Rep. Don Davis' vote factored in.
Host: Dawn Vaughan (https://www.newsobserver.com/profile/226030235)
Guest: Danielle Battaglia
Producer: Kevin Keister
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- Title
- How NC’s state budget delay is impacting K-12 education, teachers
- Runtime
- 19:18
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- This week, host Dawn Vaughan and News & Observer K-12 education reporter T. Keung Hui discuss how the long-delayed new comprehensive state budget is impacting education funding, including raises for teachers and other school employees.
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- Title
- The federal shutdown hits 36 days. What is NC’s delegation doing?
- Runtime
- 20:12
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- This week, host Dawn Vaughan and McClatchy DC correspondent Danielle Battaglia discuss the ongoing federal government shutdown, now in its 36th day with no signs of a resolution. As The News & Observer has previously reported, the shutdown is affecting federal workers and social safety net programs, like SNAP and WIC, and public reception of the White House renovations during the shutdown haven’t been great.
Host: Dawn Vaughan
Guest: Danielle Battaglia
Executive Producer: Laura Brache
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- Title
- Nearing November, here’s why NC budget talks remain stalled
- Runtime
- 21:33
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Just days away from November, North Carolina still does not have a new comprehensive budget. As Capitol bureau chief and host Dawn Vaughan explains, the battle is actually between Republicans this time — not Republicans and Democrats. The team discusses the reasons for the holdup, including tax fights, plus why a clean Medicaid rebase bill couldn’t make it across the finish line.
Host: Dawn Vaughan (https://www.newsobserver.com/profile/226030235)
Guest: Avi Bajpai, Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi
Executive Producer: Laura Brache (https://www.newsobserver.com/profile/251746793)
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- Title
- Monitoring the progress of the new GOP-backed congressional map
- Runtime
- 19:38
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- This week, host Dawn Vaughan and reporter Kyle Ingram discuss (so far, successful) efforts by Republicans in the legislature to redraw the state’s congressional map.
There’s a long history of redistricting and gerrymandering in North Carolina. In Monster: Maps, Math & Power in North Carolina — a four-part podcast series by former investigative reporter Tyler Dukes — The N&O explores how maps are drawn, their political impact on the state and the ongoing fight against gerrymandering. Find all four episodes here (https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article254382498.html) , or listen to them individually:
• Part 1: So you want to make a map... (https://megaphone.link/MCCLATCHY9974361488)
• Part 2: What gerrymandering isn’t (https://megaphone.link/MCCLATCHY3492981162)
• Part ...
- Title
- A Conversation with Gabe Esparza, NC Department of Administration Secretary
- Runtime
- 24:26
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- As Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month comes to a close, host Dawn Vaughan sat down with North Carolina Department of Administration secretary Gabe Esparza, the first Latino member of Gov. Josh Stein’s cabinet. The two discuss Esparza’s journey from the private sector to public service and his background as a third-generation Mexican-American.
Host: Dawn Vaughan (https://www.newsobserver.com/profile/226030235)
Guest: Gabe Esparza (https://www.doa.nc.gov/about/leadership/gabriel-j-esparza)
Executive Producer: Laura Brache (https://www.newsobserver.com/profile/251746793)
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- Title
- NC Gov. Stein says masked agents 'operating in the shadows' are 'not about safety' in communities
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- NC Gov. Josh Stein says that armed, masked federal agents are "operating in the shadows" and stopping people "randomly, based on the color of their skin" causing "widespread fear" in our communities.
🎥: Brian Gordon
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- Title
- Immigration agents arrive in Raleigh on Tuesday. Here’s what we know
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The U.S. Border Patrol arrived in Raleigh Tuesday after a weekend of arrests and protests in Charlotte. Reporter Nathan Collins explains what's happening and how local and state officials are responding.
📹 Kevin Keister & Nathan Collins
Read our live updates at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article312961849.html
#borderpatol #raleighnc #Raleigh #raleighnc #shorts #iceraids #immigration
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- Title
- Democratic lawmaker condemns Border Patrol arrests as ‘racist, bigoted attack'
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Calling it a "racist, bigoted attack," Democratic Rep. Julia Greenfield, who represents Mecklenburg County, said that there’s “no rhyme or reason” to how the Border Patrol has been conducting arrests.
🎥: Dawn Vaughan
Read more with our story at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article312950377.html
#ncpol #NCPolitics #charlottenc #charlottesweb #immigration #TrumpAdministration #icearrest #shorts
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- Title
- Funeral for fallen WakeMed Police Officer Roger Smith
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The NC State Highway Patrol’s Caisson Unit escorts the casket of WakeMed officer Roger Smith during a funeral procession to Providence Church in Raleigh on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. Smith died at the WakeMed campus in Garner after a shooting inside the emergency department on Nov. 9.
🎥: Kevin Keister & Ethan Hyman
🎶: 'Metamorphose' by Shaun Paul Getty
#wakemed #raleigh #fallenheroes #lawenforcement #CrimeNews #NorthCarolina #TriangleNC #shorts
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- Title
- Talking Preps OT: The NC playoff Round 2 wrap-up show
- Runtime
- 1:09:34
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Get all the NC Round 2 playoff scores, plus the pairings for next week games, interviews and more
- Title
- Gov. Morehead School for the Blind debuts its marching band
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- For the first time in its 180-year history, the Gov. Morehead School in Raleigh, N.C., had its own marching band perform in an inaugural parade at the state’s flagship school for the visually impaired - with Shaw University and Southeast Raleigh High School marching bands assisting.
🎥: Ethan Hyman
See our full coverage at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article312900851.html
#raleigh #governormoreheadschool #shawuniversity #marchingband #shorts
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- Title
- Talking Preps OT: Looking ahead to Round 2 of the playoffs
- Runtime
- 1:29:00
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- As we preview the NCISAA semifinals and NCHSAA second round, Olympic coach Brandon Thompson joins the show
- Title
- The Talking Preps NC players of the week: The Round 1 playoff edition
- Runtime
- 26:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Talking Preps crew features the top high school football performers from Week 1 of the NC playoffs.
- Title
- Talking Preps: Mr. Football semifinalists announced
- Runtime
- 1:52:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We break down Week 1 of the NCHSAA and NCISAA playoffs and look ahead to Friday's games. We also present the semifinalists for the 2025 N.C.Mr. Football award
- Title
- Jury rules in trial accusing NC TikTok star of ruining marriage
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "Justice was served," said attorney Robonetta Jones Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, outside the Durham County Courthouse after a North Carolina jury sided with her client, Akira Montague, and ruled against Brenay Kennard in an alienation of affection lawsuit. A judge has ordered Kennard to pay $1.5 million for alienation of affection and $250,000 for “criminal conversation.”
📹/📷: Kaitlin McKeown
Read our coverage at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article312854748.html
#brenaykennard #akiramontague #alienationofaffection #NorthCarolina #raleigh #shorts
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- Title
- Talking Preps: The NC Round 1 playoffs postgame show
- Runtime
- 1:21:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We wrap up Round 1 of the NCHSAA and NCISAA playoffs with highlights, interviews, statewide scores and the second round schedules
- Title
- What is NC's alienation of affection law?
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A North Carolina lawsuit against TikTok star Brenay Kennard highlights alienation of affection, a rare law allowing jilted spouses to sue for wrecking marriages. What does it mean, how does one sue?
🎥: Kevin Keister 📷: Getty Images
🎶: 'Deep Reflection' by DP / Getty
Read our coverage of the Brenay Kennard civil trail at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article312800032.html
#NCPolitics #ncpol #tiktokviral #AlienationOfAffection #Lawsuits #Adultery #weirdlaws
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- Title
- Talking Preps OT: Talking NCHSAA playoffs and should we get away from RPI?
- Runtime
- 1:32:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- As head into Week 1 of the playoffs, Dale and Jim welcome several special guests and debate the merits of RPI
- Title
- The Talking Preps Week 11 NC high school football players of the week
- Runtime
- 22:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We celebrate the top high school football performers from Week in North Carolina
- Title
- Time-lapse video shows how RDU fixes crumbling concrete on its runway
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- How does RDU Airport fix crumbling runways while keeping planes operating smoothly? Our time-lapse video from visual journalist Travis Long shows the process in 60 seconds.
Read our story at: bit.ly/4nAuMNT
#rdu #raleighdurham #TriangleNC #raleigh #durham #timelapse #howto
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- Title
- The Talking Preps NC high school football playoff preview show
- Runtime
- 2:05:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We break down the NCHSAA and NCISAA high school football playoffs in North Carolina. Round 1 is Friday
- Title
- The Talking Preps Friday night NC postgame show
- Runtime
- 1:15:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Recapping Friday's high school football action throughout North Carolina and looking ahead to the NCHSAA and NCISAA playoffs
- Title
- Talking Preps: The Thursday NC high school football postgame show
- Runtime
- 49:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We wrap up Thursday night football throughout North Carolina on October 30, 2025
- Title
- Seth Trimble sent a teacher a motivational video, and the response stunned him
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- UNC basketball guard Seth Trimble recorded a motivational video for a teacher in Watertown, N.Y. — in the heart of Syracuse basketball country. The response from Alicia Thomas, a physical-education teacher at H.T. Wiley Intermediate, will stick with him for a long time, and not because of anything he said.
🎥: Robert Willett
Read the story at: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article312661797.html
#unc #UNCBasketball #Tarheels #sethtrimble #givingback #collegebasketball #chapelhill #watertownny #shorts
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- Title
- Talking Preps OT: On ticket restrictions and playoff football RPI
- Runtime
- 1:28:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We discuss another CMS football game facing ticket restrictions this week, plus a deep dive into the NCHSAA playoff picture
- Title
- Johnston County 911 call: NC father tells dispatcher 'I murdered my children'
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Note: This video contains graphic references to violence that may be upsetting to some readers.
Listen to excerpts from Wendell Dickens III's initial call to the Johnston County 911 Call Center on Oct. 27, 2025, where Dickens confessed to killing his four children. Dickens, of Zebulon, NC, is charged with four counts of murder in their deaths.
Read our coverage: 'NC father killed his 4 children over four months, Johnston County sheriff says
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article312682148.html
🎥: Kevin Keister
911 audio: Johnston County Sheriff's Office
#johnstoncountync #zebulon #zebulonnc #northcarolina
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- Title
- 911 call: Man accused of killing his 4 children claims God influenced him
- Runtime
- 4:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Note: This video contains graphic references to violence that may be upsetting to some readers.
Listen to excerpts from Wendell Dickens III's 911 call on Oct. 27, 2025, where Dickens claimed that God influenced him to kill his four children. Dickens, of Zebulon, NC, is charged with four counts of murder in their deaths.
Read our coverage: 'NC father killed his 4 children over four months, Johnston County sheriff says
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article312682148.html
#johnstoncountync #zebulon #zebulonnc #northcarolina
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- Title
- Talking Preps: The regular-season finale preview show
- Runtime
- 1:18:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We celebrate the top games and players of Week 10 and look ahead to rivalry week and the playoffs
- Title
- 'That's not human!': Hear the spooky Pender County 911 call that really happened
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In 2021, a man called 911 in Pender County reporting a bloody man and a strange creature on a dark country road. In 2025, the story has grabbed TikTok attention and raised eyebrows.
🎥: Kevin Keister
Read the story at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article312620866.html
#thatsnothuman #paranormal #pendercounty #cryptids #spooky #truecrime #northcarolina #weird #shorts
🎶: 'Evil Animals' by Luke Thomas / Getty
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- Title
- Talking Preps: The Week 10 postgame show
- Runtime
- 1:38:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Get a complete wrap-up of Week 10 of the NC high school football season, with statewide scores, highlights, commentary
- Title
- Giant trolls spotted at Dix Park!
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Danish artist Thomas Dambo has been installing five trolls at Dix Park in Raleigh. Hear him tell the story of the trolls' purpose in protecting the "Grandmother Tree."
🎥: Ethan Hyman
#dixpark #DowntownRaleigh #raleighnc #thomasdambo #thomasdambotrolls #outdoorart #raleighparks #shorts #shortvideo @cityofraleigh @DixPark
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- Title
- Talking Preps OT: Clayton coach Scott Chadwick joins the show
- Runtime
- 1:24:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Clayton coach Scott Chadwick, former Butler/AL Brown Mike Newsome and Olympic DB Jalen Rhyne join to talk high school football heading into Week 10
- Title
- She survived domestic violence for 11 years. In one night, he stole her future.
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Jill Rohner faced stalking and filed protective orders for 11-straight years, but that didn’t stop her ex-husband from breaking into her Renaissance Park home in Raleigh with a shotgun and killing her partner and injuring a Raleigh police officer.
🎥: Kaitlin McKeown
Read her story at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article312530776.html
#domesticviolenceawareness #raleighnc #raleigh #shorts
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- Title
- Talking Preps: The Week 10 high school football preview show
- Runtime
- 1:49:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Are fans and parents too hard on coaches? We discuss and break down the best of Week and look ahead to a busy Week 10 with a studio full of guests
- Title
- Democratic leaders rally against Trump-backed congressional redistricting proposal
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton fires up supporters at a rally on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, outside the State Capitol to protest the GOP-led legislature’s new congressional redistricting proposal.
🎥: Kaitlin McKeown
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article312586036.html
#redistricting #gerrymandering #ncpol #ncgop #congressionalmaps #NCpolitics #ncdemocrats
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- Title
- Take a 'foodie tour' at the NC State Fair
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- For our first ever “Foodie’s Tour of the NC State Fair," we took 20 N&O members to five of the most popular food vendors at the fair each year, cutting lines and chowing down together.
🎥: Ethan Hyman
Read our 5 best parts from our first ‘foodie’ tour at NC State Fair: https://www.newsobserver.com/living/food-drink/article312577525.html
#ncstatefair #northcarolinastatefair #fairfood #northcarolina #statefair #trianglefoodies #FoodieFavorites #raleighfoodies #raleighnc #shorts #shortvideo
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- Title
- Thousands gather across Triangle for anti-Trump, ‘No Kings’ protests
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Thousands of demonstrators line Capital Boulevard in Raleigh during a No Kings rally on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. The protest was one of about 60 “No Kings” events planned across North Carolina, including in Durham, Cary, Clayton, Charlotte, Carrboro, Pittsboro and Wake Forest.
🎥: Travis Long
See more photos from the protest at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article312543092.html
#nokings #nokingsdayprotest #nokingsday #raleighnc #durhamnc #shorts
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- Title
- Talking Preps: The Week 9 postgame show
- Runtime
- 1:44:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Get complete coverage of Week 9 of the high school football season with live scores, highlights and commentary
- Title
- Talking Preps OT: Why did CMS coaches feel the need to potentially boycott?
- Runtime
- 2:05:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Dale and Jim welcome several guests, discuss a potential CMS football coaches protests over pay, state rankings and talk who's in and who's out of the playoffs?
- Title
- The ‘Super Bowl’ for Giant Pumpkins and Watermelons
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Pumpkin growers Susie Zuerner and Albert Rodebaugh take you inside the annual N.C. State Fair ‘Great Pumpkin and Watermelon Weigh-Off.’ See who won the competition at https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article312487171.html
🎥: Robert Willett
#ncfair #ncstatefair #greatpumpkin #giantpumpkin #giantwatermelon #NorthCarolina #statefair #shorts
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- Title
- Talking Preps: The Week 9 preview show
- Runtime
- 2:06:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We celebrate the top NC performers from Week 8, preview the week's best games statewide, break down the Queen City Senior Bowl and take a look at who's in and who's out of the playoffs right now
- Title
- UNC's Belichick says 'zero truth' to rumors of his imminent departure
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- University of North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick spoke to reporters Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, saying there is no truth to rumors of him separating from the school and talks about the challenges of building the team with few returning players.
🎥: Robert Willett
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article312484091.html
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- Title
- Here are our favorite new foods from the 2025 NC State Fair
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- News & Observer reporter Chyna Blackmon and the Charlotte Observer's Evan Moore give their top picks to try at this year's North Carolina State Fair.
🎥: Kaitlin McKeown & Kevin Keister
See more of our favorites at https://www.newsobserver.com/living/food-drink/article312483976.html
#statefair #ncstatefair #ncstatefair2025 #northcarolina #statefairfood #newfood #shorts @NCStateFairFun
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- Title
- As nor’easter hits, at-risk homes on Buxton beachfront are like terminal patients
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A nor’easter threatens beach homes during high tide Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, in Buxton, NC. Nine homes in the community have collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean since mid-September.
🎥: Travis Long
See photos and read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article312454625.html
#buxton #noreaster #obx #outerbanks #washedaway #coastalerosion #NorthCarolina #capehatteras #beachhouse #shorts #shortvideo #ocean
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- Title
- Talking Preps Postgame: Wrapping up Week 8
- Runtime
- 1:48:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Breaking down Week 8 of the high school football season on our new Friday night show
- Title
- Sen. Tillis asks AG Bondi to investigate Cherokee marijuana business in NC
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Sen. Thom Tillis asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether the Eastern Band of Cherokee is complying with federal laws regarding advertising, sales and transporting of marijuana at their dispensary.
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article312428689.html
#ncpol #NCpolitics #cherokee #marijuana #dispensary #tribal #ThomTillis #PamBondi #judiciary #shorts #shortvideo #northcarolina #cherokeenation #cannabisdispensary
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- Title
- Talking Preps OT: Discussing high school football ahead of Week 8
- Runtime
- 1:59:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Come join us to talk about statewide NC high school football, in the East and West, heading into Week 8
- Title
- ‘I will never retreat.’ UNC professor defends record after reinstatement
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Professor Dwayne Dixon speaks to supporters after The University of North Carolina reinstated him. Dixon was suspended earlier in the week after he was linked to groups that some claimed called for politically motivated violence.
🎥: Travis Long
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article312419982.html
#UNC #FreeSpeech #chapelhill #uncchapelhill #ACLU #shorts #tpusa
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- Title
- Talking Preps: The Week 8 high school football preview show
- Runtime
- 1:35:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We have detailed discussion about a new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' policy that will limit crowds and ticket sales for "high-profile" games, feature the top players from Week 7 and discuss the biggest games in the state this week
