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Business

Cooper vetoes bill that would have stopped federal unemployment benefits

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed legislation Friday that would have ended additional federal benefits created during ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, July 3, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Pilots survive as cargo plane crashes into Pacific Ocean

By CALEB JONES, DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE A. MONROE Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Two pilots told air traffic controllers that their engine had cut ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, July 3, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Boy Scouts bankruptcy plans anger some, welcomed by others.

By DAVID CRARY and RANDALL CHASE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An $850 million agreement by the Boy Scouts of America to compensate sex-abuse ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, July 3, 2021 12:00 am

News

State’s Medicaid recipients move into managed care plans

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — After six years of preparations and delays, most of North Carolina’s Medicaid recipients switched over to managed ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, July 2, 2021 12:02 am

Crime

Trump Organization, CFO indicted in tax fraud case

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays Associated Press NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, July 2, 2021 12:00 am

News

Ex-environment official now top state administrative judge

Associated Press RALEIGH  — Donald van der Vaart, a state environmental secretary for then-Gov. Pat McCrory,  was named on Thursday to lead North Carolina’s Office ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, July 2, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Hundreds believed dead in Pacific Northwest heat wave despite efforts to help

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Many of the dead were found alone, in homes without air conditioning or fans. Some were ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, July 2, 2021 12:00 am

News

Temporary Catawba casino opens in Kings Mountain

KINGS MOUNTAIN (AP) — The South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation has opened a preliminary, temporary version of its proposed casino just across the border in ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, July 2, 2021 12:00 am

News

Medical marijuana clears first hurdle in NC Senate

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — A proposed medical marijuana law for North Carolina cleared its first significant hurdle on Wednesday as a ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:36 pm

News

UNC trustees OK tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones

By Tom Foreman Jr. Associated Press CHAPEL HILL — Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved tenure Wednesday for Pulitizer Prize-winning ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:35 pm

News

Report shows minimal COVID transmission within N.C. schools

By Bryan Anderson Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH — A report published on Wednesday shows COVID-19 transmission within North Carolina schools is low and best ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:34 pm

Nation/World

Bill Cosby freed from prison, his sex conviction overturned

By Maryclaire Dale Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:33 pm

Nation/World

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88

By Robert Burns AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON — Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:32 pm

News

Tenants still protected as NC eviction moratorium nears end

By Bryan Anderson Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH — Six North Carolina Republican officials voted on Tuesday to end statewide eviction protections for renters starting ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:56 pm

Nation/World

Blackouts in US Northwest due to heat wave, deaths reported

By Nicholas K. Geranios and Andrew Selsky Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — The unprecedented Northwest U.S. heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:55 pm

Nation/World

Facebook message leads to warrant in years-old rape claim

By Maryclaire Dale Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — While she pleaded for prosecutors to take up her college rape complaint, Shannon Keeler studied in Spain, won ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:55 pm

Nation/World

Condo board boss warned of worsening damage before collapse

By Curt Anderson And Bernard Condon Associated Press Weeks before a Florida condo building collapsed, the president of its board wrote that structural problems identified ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:55 pm

News

Juul to pay $40M in N. Carolina teen vaping suit settlement

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press DURHAM — Electronic cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc. will pay $40 million to North Carolina and take more action ... Read more

by News Service Report, Monday, June 28, 2021 11:04 pm

News

North Carolina announces first COVID vaccine lottery winners

By Bryan Anderson Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH — North Carolina on Monday announced its first COVID-19 vaccine lottery winners of a $1 million cash ... Read more

by News Service Report, Monday, June 28, 2021 11:04 pm

News

UNC protesters cite ongoing frustrations amid tenure dispute

By Tom Foreman Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM — Discontent over how Black students, faculty and staff have been treated for years at North Carolina’s flagship ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 26, 2021 11:55 pm

Crime

Chauvin gets 22.5 years in prison for George Floyd’s death

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22 1/2 years in ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 26, 2021 12:00 am

News

Cooper vetoes bill banning Down syndrome abortions

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday vetoed a measure barring women from getting an ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 26, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

159 still missing from Florida condo collapse 

By TERRY SPENCER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — With nearly 160 people unaccounted for and at least four dead after ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, June 26, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Pared-down infrastructure bill’s price tag: $1.2 trillion

By Jonathan Lemire, Josh Boak and Lisa Mascaro Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced on Thursday a hard-earned bipartisan agreement on a pared-down ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, June 25, 2021 12:01 am

News

Annual state farm bill nears final approval by lawmakers

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina legislature neared final approval on Thursday of its annual farm bill, which includes the creation of a streamlined method ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, June 25, 2021 12:00 am

News

After Senate rejection, Cooper picks new environment leader

RALEIGH (AP) —  Gov. Roy Cooper named on Thursday a longtime legislative lobbyist and environmental policy adviser as his next secretary for the environment, after ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, June 25, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Death toll likely to rise after collapse of Florida condo

Associated Press SURFSIDE, Fla. — A beachfront condo building partially collapsed Thursday outside Miami, killing at least one person and trapping others in the tower ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, June 25, 2021 12:00 am

Coronavirus

Biden makes stop in Raleigh for vaccination event

Associated Press RALEIGH — A song heard at every Donald Trump campaign rally blared at least twice at the close of a North Carolina event ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, June 25, 2021 12:00 am

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