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Five dogs were pulled out of a home as crews battled a fire on the north side of High Point, according to the fire department.

On Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., firefighters said they were called to the 2400 block of Ingleside Drive.

Units said they first arrived to find heavy smoke and fire conditions in the area. A fire attack along with searches began simultaneously, resulting in crews locating five dogs. They were removed from the house and all other searches were clear.

Fire investigators said they remained on scene, along with the American Red Cross to assist occupants.

At this time, there is no word on any injuries, number of displacements or details on what led to the fire.

We have reached out to firefighters for more.

This story will be updated if more information becomes available.

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The April 28 launch of an Amazon rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, may be visible in the Carolinas.

The ULA Atlas V spacecraft, a part of Jeff Bezos's planned global network of satellites Project Kuiper, is equipped with five side-mounted boosters, which increase the potential of visibility from Florida to North and South Carolina to New York - and beyond.

The Atlas V rocket carries the first of 27 satellites, worth roughly $10 billion in total, into low-Earth orbit. Amazon Project Kuiper production satellites will provide competition to SpaceX's billionaire CEO Elon Musk's Starlink satellites.

Here's what we know about the planned launch, visibility in the Carolinas and more.

Rocket launch today: When is Amazon rocket launch?

The two-hour launch window is scheduled to start 7 p.m. EDT Monday, April 28, 2025, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, after an April 9 attempt was scrubbed due to weather.

Rocket launch live

To watch the rocket launch online, visit the Atlas V Kuiper 1 page at ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/atlas-v-kuiper-1 or the United Launch Alliance YouTube page.

USA TODAY will also be providing live coverage of the Amazon rocket launch from Cape Canaveral two hours before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.

Will the rocket launch be visible in North Carolina? South Carolina?

Yes, tonight's launch will likely be visible in N.C. and S.C.

Parts of N.C. will be able to spot the rocket from 210 seconds after liftoff, possibly including viewing the booster separation. Other parts of the state including High Point, Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Wilmington as well as other areas found on ULA's map may be able to view the rocket from 270 seconds after liftoff.

Similarly, some areas of S.C. will be able to spot the rocket and possibly the booster separation after 210 seconds after liftoff, but parts of the state including Spartanburg and others featured on the map will have to wait until 270 seconds and beyond after liftoff for a potential peek.

SpaceX launch schedule

USA TODAY wrote up the visibility schedule based on a graphic from ULA:

Launch, Space Coast, east Orlando, near University of Central Florida, Bithlo, the northern part of the Treasure Coast, Indian River County, Sebastian, Vero Beach, parts of Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach and Oak Hill

1: Launch + 30 seconds, Space Coast, Orlando, the Treasure Coast, Indian River County, Sebastian, Vero Beach, Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach and Oak Hill, Volusia County, St. Augustine, Ocala, Lakeland area

2: Launch + 90 seconds, which includes PLF Jettison or separation and jettison of the payload fairing: Space Coast, Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach, Oak Hill, Port Orange, Volusia County, Treasure Coast, Indian River County, Martin County, St. Lucie County, Orlando, Sanford, Kissimmee, Central Florida, Ocala, Lakeland, St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra Beach

3: Launch + 150 seconds, which includes solid rocket booster jettison, visibility extends to Sebring, Winter Haven, Palatka, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Sarasota, Manatee County, Sarasota County, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Naples, Collier County, Lee County, Clearwater, West Palm Beach, Lake Worth Beach, Wellington, Jupiter, Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, southern Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, parts of the Caribbean, the Bahamas

4: Launch + 210 seconds, which includes booster separation, Tallahassee, Panama City, Panhandle, Big Bend area of Florida; visibility extends beyond Florida to Georgia, South Carolina, parts of North Carolina

5: Launch + 270 seconds, ULA Atlas V rocket launch visibility extends beyond FL to these other states and cities:

6: Launch + 330 seconds, ULA Atlas V rocket launch visibility extends beyond FL to these other states and cities:

7: Launch + 390 seconds, visibility of Atlas V rocket may be possible in these states:

Jennifer Sangalang, Rick Neale and Brooke Edwards of the USA TODAY Network contributed to this report.

Iris Seaton is the trending news reporter for the Asheville Citizen Times, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at iseaton@citizentimes.com.

When Allen Jay Elementary School began its dual-language immersion program in English and Urdu, school officials initially considered translating the curriculum used for the school’s similar program in English and Spanish.

But they quickly realized that Urdu was far too distinct a language for the plan to work, said Hina Ashraf, an associate research professor in the Department of Linguistics, Initiative for Multilingual Studies, at Georgetown University. For instance, Urdu writing goes from right to left.

Leaders in the High Point, N.C., school reached out to Ashraf to help the Urdu-language teachers develop curriculum with learning objectives that best fit the academic, linguistic, and cultural needs of their students. The program that began with just kindergarten now covers all the elementary grades, with the first cohort of graduating students currently in 6^th grade. The school started the program to cater to the growing Pakistani community in the area.

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The curriculum conundrum that teachers at Allen Jay faced is not unique to their Urdu program. It’s one of the multiple challenges schools face when building out dual-language immersion programs in general, but especially when programs feature less commonly taught languages such as Urdu, Hmong, and Vietnamese.

Researchers working with teachers and schools across the country spoke with Education Week about some of the unique challenges that arise in developing these programs.

Unique languages create unique challenges

Dual-language immersion programs offer instruction of core academic subjects in English and a partner world language. Some programs teach half of the school day in one language, then switch to the other. Some dedicate specific days to each language. In the Allen Jay Urdu program, teachers rely on translanguaging, allowing students to discuss academic content in English, Urdu, and at times other languages spoken in Pakistan.

These programs, including those in more commonly taught languages such as Spanish and French, face similar challenges such as difficulty hiring and training bilingual staff; challenges finding high-quality, culturally relevant curriculum, and community preferences for some partner languages over others, said Conor Williams, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation who has researched dual-language immersion programs.

But sometimes these challenges can take on unique twists when dealing with partner languages that are less often taught in K-12 schools.

Hmong is a stateless language whose speakers are indigenous people from across southern China and Southeast Asia, who were forcefully displaced as refugees, said Jenna Cushing-Leubner, an associate professor in world languages education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She works with a coalition of Hmong-language teachers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California.

U.S. schools cannot order Hmong textbooks from a specific country, nor are there Hmong-language teachers in other countries who might come to work on a teaching visa, Cushing-Leubner said. Instead, teachers in the handful of Hmong dual-language immersion programs across the United States are often members of local communities, and they create their own materials.

Even when teaching materials and related curricula are available abroad, they are not always the best resources for students in the United States.

Alisha Nguyen, an assistant professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, bilingual education, and special education at Lesley University, worked with the Boston public schools in developing their Vietnamese dual-language curriculum at the preschool and elementary levels.

While there are textbooks available in Vietnam, Nguyen and Boston educators quickly realized that they didn’t reflect the specific history of the Vietnamese American community in Boston. Most families there are refugees from the Vietnam War and have had a hard time thinking about the war in their own terms. Nguyen has worked with the district to create materials that better capture the community’s experiences.

“We want students to have a holistic understanding of the history of the Vietnam War and the Vietnamese immigration story in relation to Asian American history as well, which you know most of the time is not included in the mainstream curriculum at all,” Nguyen said.

Community advocacy is needed to support dual-language programs

Dual-language programs are sometimes thought of as learning models that can help English learners learn English faster while also developing their home language.

That benefit can sometimes vary depending on the partner language, Williams said. For instance, students in English and Spanish programs might see more of this benefit than those in English and Japanese programs because English and Spanish have more in common.

However, Williams and other researchers said studies have found that these programs overall have benefits for students’ sense of belonging in school, which has translated to academic and linguistic success.

In 2017, Massachusetts overturned a law that eliminated bilingual education in the state for 15 years. Nguyen said that while students learned English in that time, they didn’t reach their maximum potential in language development and lost cultural connections to their own communities, leading to students reporting an overall lack of sense of belonging at school.

To get off the ground, dual-language programs in less commonly taught languages require advocacy from local communities and school leaders, Cushing-Leubner said. These languages are often undervalued because they are not viewed as connected to a major economy or can even be labeled by state or federal officials as dangerous to promote.

Creative thinking is key in building up and sustaining these programs, researchers said, including having K-12 schools partner with universities for curriculum development support and professional development; creating national coalitions through which teachers share materials; and building hiring pipelines within local immigrant communities.

HIGH POINT, N.C – Miggy Echazarreta hit a walk-off single as the High Point University baseball team defeated North Carolina A&T, 11-10, on Wednesday evening. With the victory, Head Coach Joey Hammond earned his 100th career win.

Site: Williard Stadium Score: High Point 11 , North Carolina A&T 10 Records: High Point (22-11, 7-2), North Carolina A&T (10-21, 4-3)

Head Coach Joey Hammond: "Not how you draw up a game, but you can never be upset with a win. Saw some fight with our guys, but I know we have that, so that's not something new. I didn't need to learn that about our club, but it's always good to see them do that. There are some obvious things we need to get better at to not put ourselves in those situations. Even on a day where two of our top hitters are not available, we can still find a way to push 11 runs across."

The Aggies plated an early run in the top of the first after a leadoff homer was hit to left field off HPU starter, Cord Butler. As HPU took its first hacks, Echazarreta hit a leadoff ground rule double followed by Jackson Melton ripping an RBI double to tie things up at one. After an Aggies error, Jace Kohler hit High Point's third double of the inning to bring in two runs extending the lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the first.

Kohler hits a double bringing in two more runs for HPU ??#GoHPU pic.twitter.com/J3XFLABUtz

— High Point Baseball (@HPUBaseball) April 9, 2025

Both pitchers had short stints on the mound completing two innings which led to the heavy use of the bullpen.

Two hit-by-pitches in a row from Butler led to the bases loaded, followed by a single that drove in a run and a sac fly that tied things back up at three. Jake McCarter hit a 384-ft home run on the first pitch he saw to take a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the fourth. After Justin Ruiz and Echazarreta reached base, Jackson Melton hit a three-run home run extending the Panthers' lead.

Melton hits a three-run home run extending the HPU lead ??#GoHPU pic.twitter.com/aAwEE3J78n

— High Point Baseball (@HPUBaseball) April 9, 2025

The Aggies scored a run to cut the deficit to three in the top of the sixth, followed by another run scored in the seventh as the Aggies were down two runs with two at-bats left. Howell Polk came in to relieve Joey Tuttoilmondo in the seventh recording two strikeouts to get out of the inning.

The top of the eighth led to the Aggies taking the lead scoring three runs on three hits. Two errors by HPU gave A&T the advantage to pull ahead 8-7.

North Carolina A&T were pesky in their at-bats generating multiple base hits resulting in bases loaded in the top of the ninth. A wild pitch led to another run for the Aggies, followed by a single giving them a 10-7 lead going into the bottom of the ninth.

Frank Kelly was walked to start the inning, as Kohler drilled a single to keep the line moving. James Murphy was down to his last strike as he hit a three-run home run to tie things up in the bottom of the ninth. After Jack Clark was walked and Ruiz got down a sacrifice bunt, Echazarreta hit an RBI single to complete the ninth inning rally for the win. This is the second consecutive walk-off win for HPU.

Echazarreta hits a walk-off RBI single to complete the comeback ??#GoHPU pic.twitter.com/L9rKK7dndi

— High Point Baseball (@HPUBaseball) April 10, 2025

Up Next: High Point will travel to take on Longwood University for a three game series. A doubleheader on Saturday, April 12 will act as the series opener.

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