Category Archives: State News

AP-US-PUBLIC-HEALTH-CARES-ACTPolitics slows flow of US virus funds to local public healthCongress has allocated trillions of dollars to ease the coronavirus crisis. A joint Kaiser Health News and AP i...

Governor Roy Cooper has declared August as North Carolina Preparedness Month, encouraging individuals, families, schools and businesses to review their emergency plans and update their emergency suppl...

VIRUS OUTBREAK-NORTH CAROLINA-COOPERForest abandons lawsuit challenging Cooper executive ordersRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has ended his lawsuit against Democratic Gov. Roy...

ELECTION 2020-POLL MONITORSConstraints gone, GOP ramps up effort to monitor votingWASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican Party heads into its first presidential contest this November free from decades-old l...

BC-NC-BASKETBALL COACH-FATAL PUNCHFormer assistant basketball coach sued over fatal punchThe mother of a New York tourist who was fatally punched has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a former as...

SPARTA, N.C. (AP) - Officials say an earthquake has shaken much of North Carolina, rattling homes, buildings and residents. The National Weather Service in Greenville said the 5.1-magnitude temblor st...

RACIAL INJUSTICE-CHURCH-THREATFeds: Man pleads guilty to threatening to burn Black churchNORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to threatening to burn down a Black church in Virgi...

State prison officials have completed COVID-19 tests of all offenders in state prisons and the results show 2.1 percent were positive for the virus in a six-week mass testing operation.Of the 29,062 o...

North Carolina will remain in Phase 2 of its reopening plan.Governor Roy Cooper made the announcement Wednesday that the state's COVID-19 numbers were stabilizing, but it was not time to let up. There...

AP-TROPICAL-WEATHERIsaias near hurricane strength as it crawls toward CarolinasVERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Isaias is near hurricane strength early Monday as it approaches the Carolinas, just a day after b...