AP-US-STINKY-PEAR-INVASION- Callery pears: An invader ‘worse than murder hornets!’ NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A stinky but handsome and widely popular landscape tree has become an aggressive invader. Callery pears create dense thickets that overwhelm native plants and bear four-inch spikes that can flatten tractor tires. Bradford pears and other ornamental Callery pears were cultivated from…… read more »
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North Carolina News – April 22, 2022
North Carolina News – April 21, 2022
AP-US-STINKY-PEAR-INVASION- Callery pears: An invader ‘worse than murder hornets!’ NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A stinky but handsome and widely popular landscape tree has become an aggressive invader. Callery pears create dense thickets that overwhelm native plants and bear four-inch spikes that can flatten tractor tires. Bradford pears and other ornamental Callery pears were cultivated from…… read more »
North Carolina News – April 20, 2022
ELECTION 2022-SENATE-ROBINSON NC Senate ad emphasizes lieutenant governor backing of Budd RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson endorses Ted Budd for next month’s U.S. Senate Republican primary in a new commercial in which he also criticizes ex-Gov. Pat McCrory. Robinson appears in an ad from the Club for Growth Action super…… read more »
North Carolina News – April 19, 2022
ELECTION 2022-SENATE McCrory, Budd still close in NC Senate campaign fundraising RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Senate hopeful Ted Budd is benefitting from President Donald Trump’s endorsement and a super PAC’s commitment to flood airwaves and mailboxes to help him as the May 17 Republican primary approaches. But rival and former Gov. Pat McCrory still…… read more »
North Carolina News – April 18, 2022
CARJACKING-TWO ARRESTED 2 accused of carjacking woman, 74, caught in North Carolina ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina have apprehended a man and a woman accused of assaulting and carjacking a 74-year-old woman. News outlets report the Craven County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responding to the call learned that the woman had been…… read more »
North Carolina News – April 14, 2022
AP-US-MEADOWS-VOTER-REGISTRATION Mark Meadows removed as North Carolina registered voter RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An elections board in a North Carolina county has removed Mark Meadows, a former chief of staff to President Donald Trump, from its list of registered voters after documents showed he lived in Virginia and voted in the 2021 election there. Questions…… read more »
North Carolina News – April 13, 2022
AP-US-SCI-RAINIER-HURRICANE-SEASON Pouring it on: Climate change made 2020 hurricanes rainier Human-caused climate change made the record-smashing 2020 Atlantic hurricane season even wetter. A new study on the record busy hurricane year found it was 5% rainier than it would have been had their been no global warming from the burning of fossil fuels. There were…… read more »
North Carolina News – April 12, 2022
CHILD KILLED-WATERFALL Pennsylvania child swept over North Carolina waterfall SYLVA, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff’s office says a 3-year-old Pennsylvania girl was killed after she was swept over Whitewater Falls in North Carolina. News outlets report the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that Nevaeh Jade Newswanger of Denver, Pennsylvania, had been…… read more »
North Carolina News – April 11, 2022
FATAL POLICE PURSUIT Report of state park intruder leads to fatal police pursuit STUART, Va. (AP) — A police pursuit prompted by a call about an intruder at a state park in Virginia has left an elderly man dead and a North Carolina woman charged with vehicular homicide. Authorities say rangers at Staunton River State…… read more »
North Carolina News – April 8, 2022
CAPITOL-RIOT-PROUD-BOYS Proud Boys member pleads guilty to conspiracy in Jan. 6 riot WASHINGTON (AP) — A North Carolina man has become the second member of the Proud Boys to plead guilty to conspiring with other members of the extremist group to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote. Charles Donohoe pleaded guilty Friday to…… read more »
