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Local pastors, civil rights leaders and family members met Friday to remember Andrew Brown Jr., an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed by deputies of the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office on April 21, 2021.
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Elizabeth City’s city manager is proposing a 3% pay raise for all city employees except police officers, firefighters and electric linemen in a city budget for next year that doesn’t include any rate, fee or property tax increases.
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Law enforcement have launched three separate investigations into Saturday’s deadly police-involved shooting in which an Elizabeth City police officer shot an armed man who police say had just shot another man.
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The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation is helping city police investigate the shooting deaths of two men in Elizabeth City early Saturday, one of whom was shot by a city police officer and later died at a hospital.
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BARCO — The Currituck County High School girls soccer team couldn’t hold on to a 1-0 halftime lead against Northeastern Coastal Conference-leading Manteo and ended up falling to the visitors 4-2 on Monday afternoon.
The Camden County High School baseball team defeated Hertford County by a score of 14-1 Friday evening.
Those who know, know that the content you see on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok is primarily content you spend the most time looking at. They utilize an algorithm to show you what they believe you will be most likely to look at the longest.
Those who know, know that the content you see on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, is primarily content you spend the most time looking at. They utilize an algorithm to show you what they believe you will be most likely to look at the longest.
Mrs. Wood thinks that I should get a different hobby. I have about 30 large Carolina pine trees on my property, so my constant avocation is the picking and disposing of pine cones.
CAMDEN — The Camden County girls Bruins soccer team shut out the Pasquotank County Panthers at home on Monday afternoon by a score of 3-0.
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The police department in Winston-Salem uses a commercial product called ShotSpotter, a network of audio sensors and software, to identify possible incidents of gunfire and ensure a faster response to them.
In a recent opinion piece, Drs. Greg Murphy and Stanley Goldfarb presented us with another dog-whistle issue, stating “Americans are terrified about the rising tide of radicalism in higher education.”
“Women put Joe in the White House four years ago,” Jill Biden argued recently, “and women will do it again.” Her first statement is undeniably true. The second remains to be seen. But if Jill’s husband, Joe, does win a second term, women will be the reason.
A new poll by Axios and Noticias Telemundo finds that 42% of Latino Americans support building a wall or fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border. When pollsters asked the same question in December 2021, the number was 30%. That’s a significant increase as the border crisis created by President Joe Biden’s policies worsens.
Price controls always cause shortages. Remember the Arab oil embargo from October 1973 to March 1974?
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The people who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are being held accountable, and attempts to rebrand them as patriotic choirboys are a sign of the bizarre political times. Yet is it unduly stretching the law to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters using the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
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During their prominence in the United States between the 19th century and the late 1950s and early 1960s, boarding houses were a typical temporary residence in most cities.
When Renee Wente saw the huge pine tree growing in the roundabout, she knew it would provide the perfect name for her new business, Loblolly Estate Wedding Venue.
I have a tendency to make very last minute plans as I travel. My trip to Taiwan has been no different. I was talking to my new friends, Dave and Penny, about how I wanted to visit a little village in Northern Taiwan that resembles the village in “Spirited Away,” a popular Hayao Miyazaki anim…
Why did Jesus come to earth? At Christmas, we often say that Jesus was born to die. When Easter comes, we say that Jesus became our substitutionary atonement, or what sometimes in theological study is called vicarious atonement.
EDENTON — Matt Lively is already known in Edenton for his mural on the side of the Chowan Arts Council building on Water Street. That work emphasizes historic structures and features whimsical unicycle-riding bumble bees.
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Students enrolled in College of The Albemarle’s computer integrated machining program are now eligible for a new scholarship named in honor of a COA grad and longtime employee of the Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America.
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Columbia University canceled in-person classes and police arrested dozens of students at New York University and Yale as tensions over Israel's war with Hamas continue to grow on U.S. college campuses. The moves at the Ivy League schools came hours before Monday evening's start of the Jewish holiday of Passover. A New Haven, Connecticut, police spokesperson said about 45 protesters were arrested at Yale on Monday morning and charged with misdemeanor trespassing. All were being released on promises to appear in court later. Following arrests last week at Columbia, pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up encampments on other campuses around the country, including at the University of Michigan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina.
A $12 billion high-speed passenger train line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined Brightline West company officials on Monday to hammer commemorative yellow rail spikes at the site of terminal due to open in 2028 just south of the Las Vegas Strip. The company plans to build track in the median of Interstate 15 to a Rancho Cucamonga, California, commuter rail hub connection to Los Angeles. Trains would whisk past at speeds comparable to Japan's bullet trains. A Brightline sister company operates a train about two-thirds that fast between Miami and Orlando.
Donald Trump has canceled his first planned rally since the start of his criminal hush money trial because of a storm in North Carolina. It's an added complication for the former president and presumptive Republican nominee as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden. Trump called into the rally on Saturday near the Wilmington airport less than an hour before he was scheduled to take the stage and apologized to a few thousand supporters who had gathered throughout the afternoon. Trump promised to reschedule a rally at the same location, with a “bigger and better” event. The venue still highlights the importance of North Carolina as a key battleground between Trump and Biden.
Autoworkers union celebrates breakthrough win in Tennessee and takes aim at more plants in the South
The United Auto Workers union is celebrating a huge win at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, where workers will now be represented by the union. The UAW won a stunning 73% of the vote after losing two elections there in the past decade. That is giving the UAW hope of making broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country. The union's next target is two Mercedes-Benz plants in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where workers will vote next month on whether to join the union. Harry Katz, a labor-relations professor at Cornell University, says other companies will be more aggressive than VW in fighting to prevent workers from unionizing.
Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The cases are detailed in federal documents obtained by The Associated Press and raise serious questions about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S. Federal law requires emergency rooms to stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next week in an Idaho case that could weaken those federal protections.
A video of people pulling bear cubs from a tree in North Carolina has prompted an investigation, but a state official says no charges will be filed. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission says staff responded to a report of people harassing bear cubs at an Asheville apartment complex on Tuesday. Staffers learned that the two cubs escaped after one bit a person. Officials say one cub was found later in a retention pond but the second wasn't found. In the video, people are not only seen pulling cubs from a tree, but one person poses for a photo while holding one of the wild animals, then drops the cub, who runs for a nearby fence.
The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Sheetz Inc. discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check. President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania. Sheetz is based in the state and also has stores in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina. The privately run family-owned company says it “does not tolerate discrimination of any kind.”
Diversity, equity and inclusion staff members' jobs in North Carolina's public university system could be at risk. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors committee quickly voted to repeal a DEI policy adopted in 2019. The policy will now be sent to the full board to vote on at its next meeting in May. The existing policy outlines the roles of DEI officers across the university system, and the proposed replacement policy does not mention those staff positions. Any repeal of DEI policy would follow the lead of other institutions that have removed their DEI offices, such as the University of Florida.
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The National Enquirer's former publisher is expected to return to the stand in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial as testimony continues in the first-ever criminal trial against a former U.S. president. David Pecker was the first and only witness Monday following opening statements. Prosecutors say Pecker worked with Trump and Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, on a “catch-and-kill” strategy to buy up and then spike negative stories during the 2016 campaign. Testimony resumes Tuesday. It's the first of Trump's four indictments to go to trial and the first criminal trial against a former U.S. president. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts.
Thousands of United Methodists are gathering Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, to begin an 11-day denominational General Conference. Typically it is held every four years, but church leaders delayed the 2020 gathering until now due to the pandemic. Hundreds of delegates will vote on policies, though many international delegates are not confirmed as able to attend. It's the first gathering since thousands of conservative U.S. congregations left the denomination over its failure to enforce bans on LGBTQ clergy and on same-sex marriages. Progressive delegates will attempt to overturn these bans. Other proposals include allowing regional autonomy in deciding such policies, and making it easier for international churches to disaffiliate.
Stocks are ticking higher on Wall Street and adding to their hot start to the week. The S&P 500 was up 0.7% Tuesday, pulling further out of the hole created by a six-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 170 points, and the Nasdaq composite rose 1%. A flood of earnings reports is dictating trading. Danaher was one of the strongest forces lifting the market after reporting stronger profit than expected. General Motors and Kimberly-Clark also rose following their reports. A preliminary update suggesting a slowdown in growth for U.S. business activity also helped Treasury yields to ease.
A judge is holding a hearing on prosecutors’ request to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court and fine him for social media posts that they say violated his gag order. Prosecutors in the historic hush money case cited 10 posts on Trump’s social media account and campaign website that they said breached the order, which bars him from making public statements about witnesses in the case. They called the posts a “deliberate flouting” of the court’s order. Trump's lawyers deny that he violated the order. He faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and has pleaded not guilty.
Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show a new compound of tents being built near Khan Younis in southern the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military continues to signal it plans an offensive on the city of Rafah. Khan Younis has been targeted by repeated Israeli military operations over recent weeks. Israel says it plans to evacuate civilians from Rafah during an anticipated offensive on the southern city, where hundreds of thousands of people have taken refuge during the war, now in its seventh month. On Monday, a failed rocket strike was launched at a base housing U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria.
A Russian strike on Kharkiv's TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian missile strike that smashed a television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin’s ongoing effort to intimidate Ukraine’s second-largest city. Kharkiv has come under increasingly frequent attack. Zelenskyy said the strike sought to “make the terror visible to the whole city and to try to limit Kharkiv’s connection and access to information.” The northeastern Kharkiv region straddles the approximately 600-mile front line where Ukrainian and Russian forces have been locked in battle for more than two years since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The front line has changed little during a war of attrition, focused mostly on artillery, drones and trenches.
French authorities say five people, including a child, died while trying to cross the English Channel. It occurred just hours after the British government approved a migrant bill to deport some of those who entered the country illegally to Rwanda. Authorities said they spotted several boats packed with migrants off the coast of Pas-de-Calais. Several French navy ships intervened. The regional prefect for the north of France says a woman, three men and a 7-year-old girl died. He says the boat carried 112 people. Human rights groups have described the British legislation as inhumane and cruel.
DETROIT (AP) — The NFL draft has taken the show on the road for a decade, giving cities around the country a chance to be in the spotlight.
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