Following the Washington Commanders' remarkable performance against the Detroit Lions in the NFL playoffs, Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant weighed in with a concise five-word reaction.

Ally Financial Inc. will cut jobs, end mortgage originations and consider strategic alternatives for its credit-card business as borrowers have struggled to pay down costly debt.

A team like the Charlotte Hornets loom large over the next month as they await to help facilitate other trades for future draft capital.

Dion and Davita Galloway, owners of DUPP&SWATT, are opening a salon and barbershop at Camp North End. The new business, CELL THERAPY, is set to open this spring.

Appalachian St. at Marshall, 1 p.m. Bryant at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Navy, 1 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Canisius, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Niagara, 1 p.m. Penn at Cornell, 1 p.m. UMBC at Maine, 1 p.m. Wagner at Mercyhurst, 1 p.m. Army at Boston U., 2 p.m.

No. 18 Memphis visits the Charlotte 49ers after PJ Haggerty scored 21 points in the Tigers' 88-81 loss to the Temple Owls.

ATLANTA — The stage is set. On Monday, Notre Dame and Ohio State will play for the 2025 College Football National Championship. North Carolina is well represented on Notre Dame's sideline with graduate kicker Mitch Jeter, a Salisbury native, and Sam Pendleton, a Reagan High school alum.

The contract award, which still needs state approval, advances a project that's been planned by the city since the early 2000s.

Martin Luther King Jr. signs autographs after a speech in Durham in 1958. The civil rights leader made multiple visits to the state over the course of his career as an activist, dating to 1954 when he came to Charlotte in 1954, a year before the Montgomery Bus Boycott made King a national figure.

INDIANAPOLIS—The ISO flexes its musical muscles with three show-stopping concertos, plus a world premiere of a new piece written by Daixuan Ai. Beach Adventure is

The Washington Commanders head into Saturday night’s game against the Detroit Lions as massive underdogs. Still, Jayden Daniels and company are riding high after an electric road win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Wild Card round of the 2025 NFL Playoffs.

The Miami-based Knight Foundation has appointed Jamaican-born artist Kristina Newman-Scott as its new vice president for arts. In the role, Newman-Scott will oversee Knight Foundation’s expansive arts portfolio,