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8+ hour, 35+ min ago   (616+ words) Salem City Council moved Aug. 24 to punt a vote to a later date on creating the proposed North Waterfront Urban Renewal Area after expressing concerns and hearing public testimony. Council was set to vote on creating the urban renewal area…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (568+ words) Nearly $3.4M in federal funding announced in Ajax The federal government’s investment of nearly $3.4 million in three Durham projects was announced on Friday in Ajax as part of the Active Transportation Fund. It will include new trails in Ajax and Oshawa,…...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (731+ words) These used to be among the fundamental facts about going to college in America: College lasts four years. And though that timeline had been flexible when it comes to sports, there was never much debate over the notion that once…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1330+ words) Listen to this story (15 minutes) The North Carolina Court of Appeals must decide whether the state Department of Transportation must pay for the full value of a Mecklenburg County property affected by a utility easement in 2024. The DOT’s lawyer predicted…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (660+ words) Director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity, John Locke Foundation In the summer of every federal election year, North Carolina is treated to a bit of drama over early voting sites, with Democrats and Republicans trading barbs over a…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (766+ words) Retailer Target pulled a children’s Halloween costume from its shelves Monday after widespread social media backlash, apologizing for selling a garment critics said evoked racist minstrel caricatures. Critics say the costume, along with its promotional image of a Black child…...

13+ hour, 39+ min ago   (631+ words) Durham County officials say new requirements under H.R. 1 could place significant financial and administrative burdens on local SNAP operations as county staff work to keep up with growing demand and limited resources. Inside the Durham County Department of Social Services, employees…...

3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (254+ words) United States Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested a California man with what they said was a guillotine in the bed of a pickup truck parked near the U.S. Capitol complex. Police detained 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California, shortly after 3 p.m., when…...

8+ hour, 25+ min ago   (198+ words) Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about an interesting revelation about government workers in the nation’s capital. Washington, D.C.-based bureaucrats lamented returning to in-person work and being transferred to various states to administer the nation’s food stamp programs, according…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago   (411+ words) Adam Kredo writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a disturbing piece of Palestinian schoolchildren’s education. Palestinian Authority-run schools in the West Bank are glorifying Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree, using the Israeli death toll to teach third graders math lessons…...