(The Center Square) – North Carolina parents withdrew their teen from school and sued a school district it says unfairly issued a suspension and “injected race” into a question of clarification from an English teacher.
The Davidson County School... Read more
(The Center Square) – Three North Carolinians are among the Republican, Democrat and independent members of Congress named Fiscal Heroes by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Republican Reps. Chuck Edwards, Virginia Foxx and Patrick McHenry were among... Read more
(The Center Square) – One hundred three were flown to Charlotte Douglas International, two to Raleigh-Durham International among more than 400,000 migrants relocated to the United States in the Biden administration’s mass-parole program in 2023 between January and August.
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(The Center Square) – Federal criminal charges could be filed for knowingly causing or attempting to cause bodily injury to a law enforcement officer under a proposal from a North Carolina congressman.
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is joined... Read more
(The Center Square) – More than one parent probably hopped on the internet and looked after North Carolina’s treasurer returned a few thousand dollars to the local public school system.
“How’d that happen?” would be logical, and the answer... Read more
(The Center Square) – Restoring rewards for longevity and master's degrees in the pay of educators have been filed in the North Carolina Senate.
Appropriation of taxpayers' dollars would be $140.3 million for the 2024-25 year, if enacted, from... Read more
(The Center Square) – Lawful immigration cooperation by North Carolina sheriffs with federal agents, with clarity in detainer and arrest warrant language, could soon be law.
Recently, there’s been a gap in communication and handling of cases by sheriffs,... Read more
(The Center Square) – North Carolina education perspectives at opposite ends of thought do not show signs of meeting in the middle.
Republican lawmakers led the state Senate’s approval of $500 million to erase the waiting list for Opportunity... Read more
(The Center Square) – Brad Knott hasn’t won yet, but the leading vote-getter in the 13th Congressional District primary has suspended her campaign ahead of the May 14 runoff.
Former President Donald Trump – who else? – is the... Read more
(The Center Square) – North Carolina has landed another manufacturing plant in the electric vehicle battery field.
The state's Economic Investment Committee on Thursday approved $5.7 million in grants to Green New Energy Inc. to build a $140 million... Read more
(The Center Square) – Appropriation of enough money to erase a waiting list of about 55,000 for school choice is expected to be voted on soon by the full North Carolina Senate.
The second-year budget adjustment is not expected... Read more
(The Center Square) – Nearly 15 million people living in or entering the country illegally are on an FBI list prohibiting purchase of firearms.
However, the National Instant Criminal Background Check system isn’t required to let immigration authorities know... Read more
(The Center Square) – Trying to make it permanent, a North Carolina congressman and three others in Congress have filed legislation to extend telehealth services for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
U.S. Rep. Dr. Greg Murphy,... Read more
(The Center Square) – For “mealy-mouthed, spineless college leaders,” actions will have consequences, the North Carolina congresswoman leading a key U.S. House of Representatives committee said Tuesday amid ongoing college campus disruptions.
The war between Israel and Hamas has... Read more
(The Center Square) – Education majors from Appalachian State University offered suggestions on how to recruit more teachers during Tuesday's meeting of the State Board of Education.
Their answer was familiar: more money.
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(The Center Square) – People with power and influence to help North Carolina stop exploiters of human trafficking are meeting in Raleigh to help educate, change perceptions and push new policies.
Legislators, sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and members... Read more
(The Center Square) – Trespassing into classroom buildings led the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to order an end to the protest encampment at the scenic Polk Place Quad.
The nation’s oldest public university, and flagship of... Read more
(The Center Square) – Four lawmen on the U.S. Marshals Task Force died Monday while serving an arrest warrant in North Carolina.
A marshal and two officers from the Department of Adult Correction were confirmed killed early Monday evening... Read more
(The Center Square) – Three lawmen killed in the line of duty, and five others wounded by gunfire, caused an outpouring of responses throughout North Carolina on Monday evening.
The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force attempted to serve a... Read more
(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden, says a North Carolina congressman, is putting "America’s energy security last."
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., commented after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s four rules on fossil fuel-fired power plants was announced.... Read more
