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1+ hour, 29+ min ago   (1209+ words) The North Carolina House gave final approval Tuesday to a pair of rewritten election bills that would shorten early voting for primary elections and require the state auditor to review election procedures across all 100 counties, sending the measures to Democratic…...

55+ min ago   (491+ words) The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a former Pitt County government attorney’s lawsuit blaming racial discrimination for his firing. The decision Wednesday upheld a trial judge’s ruling against Bryan Wardell. Pitt County commissioners selected Wardell as the county…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (277+ words) State lawmakers in North Carolina decided not to vote on legislation that would impose a new crackdown on the state's hemp industry ABC affiliate WTVD reported. The delay follows a massive demonstration at the legislative building where hundreds of industry…...

2+ hour, 44+ min ago   (371+ words) “She is one of our star recruits to run for Congress this fall, and she is going to flip a blue seat to red, North Carolina’s first Congressional District, an essential part of the strategy to ensure the Republicans maintain…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (311+ words) Wilmington College's graduate program in occupational therapy places a focus on preparing professionals to serve rural communities. Its mission came to life again with this summer's Therapeutic Riding Camp, which offered one of the enduring symbols of rural life — horseback…...

26+ min ago   (530+ words) A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers undoubtedly slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although the 5,400-mph collision had yet to be officially confirmed, space…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (106+ words) The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is assisting the Caswell County Sheriff's Office after a mass shooting Wednesday morning in Caswell County. The Caswell County Sheriff's Office said the shooting happened around 8:30 a.m. on Brooks Road in the Prospect Hill…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (647+ words) For more than a decade, the Nation’s Report Card has asked North Carolina students who lives at home with them. But it has never reported the answers publicly. That omission was flagged by a new report released July 24 by the…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (673+ words) Inside Neil Armstrong's boyhood home, at the top of a creaky stairway, sits his bedroom where he launched model airplanes out of the rear window to measure how far they'd fly. Owned by a retired history teacher devoted to preserving…...

2+ hour, 47+ min ago   (302+ words) Police responded Tuesday night to the Florida home of Perez Hilton after receiving reports that the celebrity gossip blogger appeared to be harming himself on a TikTok livestream. In response to a question about Hilton's livestream, the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office…...