Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed Friday as Americans with Disabilities Day in North Carolina, honoring the more than 1.3 million North Carolinians who have a disability
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 7:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Public health officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the Cumberland County Department of Public Health are reporting that an individual died after developing an illness caused by an amoeba that is naturally present in warm freshwater during the summer.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 5:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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First, Cal Cunningham called for the impeachment of President Trump. Now, Cunningham has joined Erica Smith in calling for a higher minimum wage.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Wednesday, during a Chicago City council meeting, new Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was caught on a live mic calling the vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police a “clown.”
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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If it were a film, North Carolina’s subsidy program wouldn’t be a box office smash. A recent study from the Western Carolina University Center for the Study of Free Enterprise says the $400 million North Carolina taxpayers have invested in film subsidies has failed to pay dividends.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement (IDEA) Act of 2019 would close these gaps by directing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to collect demographic data from patent applicants on a voluntary basis.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:03 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to Nouakchott, Mauritania, to attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani on August 1, 2019.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 1:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today Governor Roy Cooper signed two bills into law, SB 420, the North Carolina Service members Civil Relief Act and SB 218, Clarify State Recognition – Lumbee Indians.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 1:21 pm
By: Governor's Office
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We are more than three weeks into the new fiscal year and the state is still without a budget thanks to Governor Roy Cooper’s Medicaid expansion-or-nothing ultimatum.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 1:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Judicial elections can frustrate voters. Other than names and party labels, it’s often hard to learn much about the candidates. They tend to avoid discussing issues that might prompt future court cases.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 5:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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East Carolina University has become the 77th educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 5:50 am
By: ECU News Services
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Last Thursday morning, a single mother of two was jogging along Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts when she was allegedly flashed twice by a man running the other way, who didn’t know one crucial fact about the 6’1” woman: She was a former soldier in the Israeli army.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 5:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Monday, The New Yorker printed a lengthy piece by reporter Jane Mayer about the sad fate of former Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. Franken resigned from the Senate in 2017 after a bevy of women accused him of sexual harassment
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 5:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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Remarks by President Trump at a Full Honors Welcome Ceremony for the Secretary of Defense
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 4:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On 7/16/2019, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Robert Blount, 29 years of age, of 537 S. 7th Street in Aurora and Jayvion Wright, 23 years of age, of 346 Middle Road in Aurora.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 4:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper toured St. Pauls Elementary in Robeson County to push for a school construction bond that will allow voters to guarantee funding for new school buildings and renovations across the state.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 4:10 am
By: Governor's Office
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