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Trio supports homeless people during pandemic

By Emily Leshner Associated Press Once a month, Magena Morris, Tyler Bone and Nic White bring racks loaded with clothes into Charlotte’s largest homeless encampment ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Biden: ‘We can’t wait any longer’ to address climate crisis

By Matthew Daly and Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press WASHINGTON — In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 11:11 pm

Nation/World

Virus will kill many more, White House projects as briefings resume

By Zeke Miller and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Biden administration launched its new level-with-America health briefings Wednesday with a projection that as ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 11:10 pm

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Cooper extends curfew as GOP questions COVID-19 vaccine plan

By Bryan Anderson Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday extended a trio of executive orders allowing for curbside alcohol sales, ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 11:09 pm

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NC General Assembly returns to begin work session in earnest

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly returned Wednesday to begin in earnest its annual work period, filing the ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 11:08 pm

Elections

NC Sen. Jeff Jackson enters US Senate race

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — A North Carolina state senator announced Tuesday that he’s running for the U.S. Senate in 2022, hoping ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00 am

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NC jobless aid office addressing millions of dollars in overpayments

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina has overpaid tens of millions of dollars in jobless benefits since the COVID-19 pandemic to people who don’t actually qualify ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Most in GOP against holding Trump impeachment trial

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All but five Senate Republicans voted in favor of an effort to dismiss ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00 am

Business

Department store chain Belk filing for bankruptcy

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Belk, the North Carolina-based department store chain which has catered to generations of shoppers for nearly 190 years, announced Tuesday that it ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00 am

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Tornado leaves path of destruction in Alabama, killing one teenager

By Jay Reeves Associated Press FULTONDALE, Ala.  — A terrifying nighttime tornado that blasted through suburban Birmingham, trapping entire families in the remnants of shattered ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00 am

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At session start, NC legislators pitch consensus with Cooper

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly session begins in earnest today with Republican majorities still in place after ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00 am

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Duke Energy, NC officials announce coal ash expense deal

RALEIGH (AP) — Duke Energy, North Carolina officials and a conservation group announced Monday an agreement on how the utility pays to get rid of ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:23 am

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Transition to mass vaccination sites irks NC health systems

By Bryan Anderson Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH — North Carolina officials are shifting the state’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution strategy toward mass clinics in an ... Read more

by News Service Report, Monday, January 25, 2021 10:59 pm

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White House begins talks with lawmakers on COVID-19 relief

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top aides to President Joe Biden on Sunday began talks with a group of moderate Senate Republicans and Democrats on a $1.9 ... Read more

by News Service Report, Sunday, January 24, 2021 10:08 pm

Health

NC panel backs governor’s ‘guiding principles’ on health improvements

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH (AP) — Prominent North Carolina medical, business and nonprofit leaders and state legislators assembled by Gov. Roy Cooper ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:00 am

Education

N.C. colleges report first wave of COVID-19 cases as semester begins

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH (AP) — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Friday that it avoided returning to ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:00 am

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Former Make-A-Wish Iowa CEO charged with embezzling funds

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The former CEO of Make-A-Wish Iowa has been arrested on felony charges alleging she ... Read more

by News Service Report, Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

McConnell working to push impeachment trial to February

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro Associated Press WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00 am

Nation/World

Biden orders halt on all border wall construction

By Elliot Spagat Associated Press SAN DIEGO — In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump’s wall ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00 am

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More than a million gallons of gas spilled in nature preserve near Huntersville

Associated Press CHARLOTTE — A crack in   a gasoline pipeline caused more than a million gallons to spill in a North Carolina nature preserve, ... Read more

by News Service Report, Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00 am

Coronavirus

Small number of NC vaccine doses thrown out, official says

By Bryan Anderson Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH — North Carolina’s top public official acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that the state has ... Read more

by News Service Report, Thursday, January 21, 2021 5:41 pm

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Ex-NC Rep. Hayes pardoned by Trump for role in bribery scandal

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — A former North Carolina congressman and state Republican Party leader who lied to FBI agents about a ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 11:17 pm

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North Carolina prisons get first wave of COVID vaccine doses

By Bryan Anderson Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH — North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety announced on Wednesday it has received about 1,000 doses of ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 11:16 pm

Nation/World

Biden sworn in as America’s 46th president

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 1:05 pm

Nation/World

Vice President Harris: A new chapter opens in US politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris broke the barrier Wednesday that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than ... Read more

by News Service Report, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 1:01 pm

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Justice Department won’t charge Sen. Burr over stock sales

By Eric Tucker and Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard Burr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has told him it will ... Read more

by News Service Report, Tuesday, January 19, 2021 11:40 pm

Nation/World

Heavy fortified statehouses around the US see small protests

By David A. Lieb and Adam Geller Associated Press Small groups of right-wing protesters — some of them carrying rifles — gathered outside heavily fortified ... Read more

by News Service Report, Sunday, January 17, 2021 7:14 pm

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Gov. Cooper sending another 100 National Guard members to Washington

RALEIGH (AP) — Another 100 North Carolina National Guard members are going to Washington to help with security leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ... Read more

by News Service Report, Sunday, January 17, 2021 12:00 am

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