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NC medical marijuana legalization gets hearing in Senate

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — A bipartisan effort to legalize marijuana for medical use in North Carolina got a legislative committee hearing ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:55 pm

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N. Carolina bill ending extra $300 benefits heads to Cooper

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — North Carolina would end offering supplemental benefits from the federal government to the state’s unemployed in roughly ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:55 pm

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Panel OKs NC Senate budget bill; Dems pan policy provisions

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — Senate Republicans pushed their North Carolina government budget proposal through the chamber’s largest committee Tuesday, rejecting Democratic ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:55 pm

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Letter: Journalist won’t join UNC faculty without tenure

RALEIGH (AP) — Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has told the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a letter that she will not join ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:55 pm

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Senate budget uses NC revenue boon on more tax cuts, capital

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — North Carolina Senate Republicans unveiled a two-year state budget proposal Monday that sticks to earlier spending limits ... Read more

by News Service Report, Monday, June 21, 2021 11:50 pm

College

Livingstone College alumna Quanera Hayes makes U.S. Olympic Team after first-place finish in 400-meter race

Livingstone College News Service SALISBURY — Livingstone College alumna and track star Quanera Hayes is headed to the Tokyo Olympics after finishing first, with a ... Read more

by News Service Report, Monday, June 21, 2021 7:54 pm

Sports

Hawks beat 76ers in Game 7, advance to face Bucks

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trae Young and the Hawks are taking their stunning turnaround to the Eastern Conference finals. Young made a late 3-pointer and scored ... Read more

by News Service Report, Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:19 pm

Racing

Larson romps to yet another victory for Hendrick Motorsports

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — Kyle Larson won his fourth race in seven days then finally headed home to sleep in his own bed. For a ... Read more

by News Service Report, Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:10 pm

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Body of fourth tuber, age 7, found in North Carolina river

EDEN (AP) — The body of a fourth tuber has been found in a North Carolina river following a deadly accident in which a family ... Read more

by News Service Report, Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:51 pm

Nation/World

8 kids in youth van among the 13 lives lost to Claudette

ATLANTA (AP) — Eight children in a van from a youth home for abused or neglected children were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on ... Read more

by News Service Report, Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:48 pm

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Officers cleared in Mooresville shooting

MOORESVILLE (AP) — A special prosecutor  says two police officers will not face criminal charges over the shooting death of a Mooresville man. The Charlotte ... Read more

by News Service Report, Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:01 am

Nation/World

Driver crashes into crowd at Pride parade in Florida; 1 dead

WILTON MANORS, Fla. — A driver slammed into spectators Saturday evening at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one man and ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:54 pm

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Research from NC State professors is aboard space station

By Nina Pasquini The News & Observer RALEIGH — The biology projects of two N.C. State University professors are now aboard the International Space Station ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 19, 2021 11:52 pm

Nation/World

Tropical weather lashes Gulf Coast with winds, rain

By KEVIN McGILL and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — High winds and heavy rains buffeted coastal Louisiana and Mississippi on Friday as ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Girl attacked by bear in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — A 16-year-old girl was attacked by a bear Friday in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials said. The bear attacked while ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:00 am

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Cooper vetoes bill that would have allowed more to carry guns in churches

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed gun-rights legislation on Friday that would allow parishioners at more ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:00 am

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Two tubers remain missing after going over Dan River dam

By GERRY BROOME Associated Press EDEN (AP) — Searchers combed a North Carolina river Friday for two missing tubers after a family on a recreational ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:00 am

Coronavirus

US reaches 300 million vaccine shots in 150 days

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden took a cautious victory lap Friday in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:00 am

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3 dead, 2 still missing after tubers go over Dan River dam

EDEN (AP) — Three people are dead and two remain missing after a group floating down a North Carolina river on inflatable tubes went over ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, June 18, 2021 12:00 am

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Cooper no fan of energy bill

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — Negotiators of a wide-ranging North Carolina energy bill to retire Duke Energy coal-fired electricity plants, expand solar ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, June 18, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Congress approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday

By Kevin Freking Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the nation. ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:04 pm

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Veterans’ tax exemption expanded in bill clearing NC House

RALEIGH — More veterans in North Carolina could exempt their entire military retiree pay from state income taxes in legislation that cleared the House overwhelmingly ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:03 pm

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Appeals court refuses to reinstate N Carolina abortion ban

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — North Carolina’s ban on most abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy must remain unenforceable, a federal ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:02 pm

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Bill retires many NC coal-fired plants, boosts renewables

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — Several coal-fired power plants operated by Duke Energy’s North Carolina subsidiaries would transition to alternate fuels by ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 12:01 am

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Museum loses contract over event deemed racially insensitive

By Tom Foreman Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM — A North Carolina county cut ties on Tuesday with a historic museum that planned to put on ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:50 pm

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NC tax revenue soars, $6.5B windfall predicted by mid-2023

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — North Carolina’s resurgent post-pandemic economy could put an additional $6.5 billion over the next two years into ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:49 pm

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Police: Grandmother of man who shot at officers found dead

WINSTON-SALEM — Authorities said Tuesday that they have found the bodies of two women, including the grandmother of a man who opened fire on a ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:48 pm

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NC rights groups say GOP bills impede voting access

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — Civil and voting rights groups Monday blasted election bills written by North Carolina Republicans and expected on ... Read more

by News Service Report, Monday, June 14, 2021 11:24 pm

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