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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Matt Burns
North Carolina's community college board is moving ahead with a rule allowing schools to refuse admission to students who campus officials consider a threat. The board voted Friday to give schools in the country's third-largest community college system the ability to bar students who appear to pose an imminent and significant threat. Community colleges board member Stuart Fountain says the change is an attempt to balance safety with the open-door nature of the two-year schools.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Terry Cantrell |Matt Burns
A former North Carolina state lawmaker appeared in federal court Monday on charges he used taxpayer money to buy personal items including jewelry, a house and Faberge eggs. Former Republican Rep. Stephen LaRoque of Kinston made his first court appearance in Raleigh. The judge read the charges, described the potential penalties and explained LaRoque's rights. "Rep.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Zac Gooch |Matt Burns
Helping working families get quality child care is a good investment in the country's overall economic health, President Barack Obama told an audience gathered Wednesday in downtown Charlotte. The president said during the town hall at the ImaginOn educational library that helping families pay good caregivers to watch their children while they work helps ensure that those children become responsible, tax-paying adults.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Jodi Leese Glusco |Richard Adkins
Democrats on North Carolina's elections board voted Tuesday to give voters in a number of counties more opportunities to participate in the November general election with hard-fought campaigns for president and governor in the balance. The five-member State Board of Elections voted largely along party lines to add more locations or hours to the early voting period in Wake, Forsyth, Anson, Craven, Hoke and Pamlico counties.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Kelly Gardner |Edward Wilson
A man who spent nearly four decades behind bars was freed from prison Friday after a three-judge panel found him innocent in the 1976 stabbing deaths of a Bladen County mother and her adult daughter. Last month, the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission recommended the case of Joseph Sledge for judicial review after newly discovered evidence cast doubt on whether he had anything to do with the killings of Josephine Davis, 74, and Ailene Davis, 53, in their Elizabethtown home.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Richard Adkins |Matt Burns
A federal judge on Friday delayed John Edwards' trial on alleged campaign finance violations for at least two months because the two-time Democratic presidential candidate is suffering from a heart condition. The trial had been set to begin Jan. 30, but U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles said the earliest it could begin is March 26. No new trail date has been set.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Greg Clark |Matt Burns
Utilities in North and South Carolina have reported trace amounts of radiation from a nuclear reactor in Japan that was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami. Progress Energy and Duke Energy in North Carolina and South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. say they've detected trace amounts of radiation that has been carried on the jet stream across the Pacific Ocean and the U.S. following the damage to the reactor almost three weeks ago.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Kelly Hinchcliffe |Jodi Leese Glusco |Edward Wilson
Politicians, business leaders, celebrities and hundreds of faithful joined the Rev. Billy Graham Thursday as he reached a significant milestone. On Nov. 7, 1918, the man who would become known as "America's pastor," was born. As the North Carolina-born evangelist turned 95, a big party was held at the Grove Park Inn to celebrate the occasion. Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Kathy Lee Gifford and Gov. Pat McCrory were some of the guests in attendance.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Cullen Browder |Greg Clark |Matt Burns
The major party candidates for North Carolina governor got a chance Tuesday to persuade small-business owners that they're best qualified to become the state's next chief executive. Republican Pat McCrory and Democratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton spoke at a forum in downtown Raleigh hosted by the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Jodi Leese Glusco |Bridget Whelan |Cullen Browder |Bruce Mildwurf
The North Carolina House of Representatives voted Monday to put a ban on same-sex marriage before voters next year. After 3 1/2 hours of debate, 75 legislators voted in favor of the bill which would ask voters to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Several Democrats joined the Republican majority in backing the bill. Voters could see it on the ballot during the May primary election.
