Leyla Santiago

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Leyla Santiago |Greg Hutchinson |Matt Burns

The Marine Corps' top general said Wednesday the deadly Beirut barracks bombing 30 years ago helped define the start of America's war against terrorists. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, survivors and friends gathered at a memorial bordering Camp Lejeune that honors the victims of the bombing Oct. 23, 1983. Before Sept. 11, it was the deadliest terrorist attack on Americans. Many of the 241 Americans killed were members of Camp Lejeune's 24th Marine Amphibious Unit.

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Leyla Santiago |Bill Herrero |Kelly Gardner

Celebrating its 220th birthday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday installed its 11th chancellor and first female leader. "I am overwhelmed by Carolina warmth and a Tar Heel welcome," Carol Folt, the former president at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, told an estimated crowd of about 2,500 students, faculty and staff who gathered Saturday in Polk Place on the Chapel Hill campus.

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Bryan Mims |Leyla Santiago |Tom Normanly |Bill Herrero

Politicians in Texas, Arkansas and elsewhere vowed defiance – and other conservative states could follow suit – after the Obama administration told public schools across the U.S. on Friday to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. The federal government's guidance was met with tearful praise from parents of transgender students.

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Leyla Santiago |Tom Normanly |Matt Burns

Undergraduate students enrolled at North Carolina's 16 public universities a year from now can expect a reprieve from a decade of steady tuition increases, University of North Carolina President Tom Ross said Thursday. Ross told members of the university system's Board of Governors that he will recommend no tuition increases for undergraduate state residents heading into the 2014-15 academic year.

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Derek Medlin |Leyla Santiago |Jamie Munden

A group critical of North Carolina state government environmental policies headed to downtown Raleigh Friday morning to let its feelings be known. Members of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network rallied near the Legislative Building and walked to the headquarters of the state Department of Environmental and Natural Resources nearby.