We also hear from Durham leaders after the headliner for the Bimbe Festival said she was never contacted for it. Plus, The latest on two shootings involving police officers and how AAA is partnering with local law enforcement to prevent thieves from taking parts from your car. Watch WRAL-TV at 7:30 p.m., and search for these and other stories on WRAL.com.

On WRAL at 7:30: Storms possible tonight. Who could see the heaviest rain during a WRAL Weather Alert Day, plus when the rain returns next week

The North Carolina Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public for health reasons, following an emotional debate about the wisdom of the proposal.


NC Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public for health reasons

Protestors gather in Graham 

A year later, the full impact of the North Carolina abortion law is becoming clearer for both supporters and opponents.

A year later, impact from NC's 12-week abortion ban coming into focus

Ultrasound

LIV Coverage

Infuriated after being blindsided by the PGA Tour’s pact with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, a band of leading golfers has won a series of concessions from the beleaguered circuit’s commissioner — including the elevation of Tiger Woods to the tour’s board — in a star-driven rebuke of the tour.

Tiger Woods Joins PGA Tour Board in Concession to Player Demands

The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV GOlf League have agreed to unify.

'I thought it was a joke': Golfers, golf fans react to PGA Tour's merger with LIV

"WRAL Triangle and Two" hosts Louis Fernandez and Mark Bergin discuss former North Carolina guard Caleb Love's decision to transfer to Michigan.

Love could play his former team when North Carolina and Mich

The guys discuss how Love should be remembered for his time playing for the Tar Heels.

Other topics include the top five rookie quarterbacks in the 2023 NFL Draft with the Carolina Panthers with the first overall pick.

The guys also share their thoughts about Jon Rahm winning the 2023 Masters.

Caleb Love transfers to Michigan, top 5 rookie QBs in 2023 NFL Draft

WRAL Triangle and Two

Golfers who have joined LIV Golf could eventually face the consequences of that decision. Joe Giglio gives his take in this week's Shot of Joe to Go.  

bryson, de Shambo fancies himself a polymath. He famously put on £50 to help him hit a golf ball longer. Mission accomplished in june de Shambo parlayed his manufactured long ball skills and golf notoriety into a $100 million deal with live golf. Now de Shambo is among the players suing the P. G. A Tour to be allowed to play in the year end Fedex Cup playoffs. He even went on Fox News to use a ham fisted analogy about pizza shops or I should I say it was a pepperoni fisted analogy to explain the plight of live golf. It's too bad. De Shambo didn't pay more attention in college shortly. Southern methodist cover the story of Adam and Eve from the book of genesis. You know the one where God said, you can have all of these wonderful things in paradise, but you can't eat the forbidden fruit if you do your God. As a reminder, the bible says that after Eve ate the apple, God banished Adam and Eve from paradise. Just like he said, he would, he didn't say, you know, it's like a pizza shop where they pay you to eat. No, no, no, no. There was a decision made and then there was a consequence for that decision. There are exceptions, but usually that's how the world works. Look at it this way, bryson at least the Saudis didn't kick you out of live Paradise. Well, not yet. Anyway, that is your shot of joe to go. Don't throw it away

Shot of Joe to Go: Golfers joining the LIV  could face consequences 

Golfers who have joined LIV Golf could eventually face the consequences of that decision.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- Tiger Woods, having returned to his sport's most ancient ground Tuesday, at first tried succinct bluntness. Fittingly, he soon enough reached for history. Then, at last, as the winds off the North Sea thumped and thrashed outside, he deployed sustained, searing disgust.

Tiger Woods Has Harsh Words for LIV Golf and Greg Norman

Greg Norman is using obscene amounts of Saudi money to settle a 3 decade score with the PGA Tour.  And, he's got a chance to pull it off.

Gold: LIV isn't about golf. It's about revenge

WRAL sports analyst Joe Giglio is happy for the content the LIV Tour has provided, but the upside pretty much ends there.

in a certain way. The players who have decided to take the gobs of money from the Saudi backed live Golf tour have done a service for golf sports are at their most compelling when it's the good guys versus the bad guys and make no mistake, Phil Mickelson Dustin johnson, Sergio Garcia and the other pros who have hitched their wagon to the Saudis fugazi tour, they're bad guys and not for getting in bed with the Saudis specifically or for being a sellout in general. It's for the green Dustin Johnson has made $74 million dollars on the PGA tour. You figure he's made another dollar or two, an endorsement money as well, kevin Na has made $37 million on the P. G. A. Tour, kevin na. These golfers weren't exactly impoverished on P. G. A. Tour scraping by paycheck to paycheck. Like so many people who actually have to work for a living, they didn't take the money to change their lives rather out of sheer avarice. They didn't need to live money, but they took it anyway. We've been taught character as what you do when no one is watching the live golfers have made their choice and everyone is watching, they chose greed, they chose wrong. That is your shot of joe to go, don't throw it away