WRAL News The Durham Police Department arrested the chief judge for Durham County’s District Court on allegations of domestic violence and assaulting a woman. Clayton Jones Jr., 47, of Durham, faces misdemeanor charges of assault on a female and domestic violence. Jones is accused of assaulting a woman, hitting her and grabbing the back of […]
Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline & Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina’s programs to repair and rebuild multi-family and workforce housing in western counties will begin accepting applications in early 2026, Gov. Josh Stein said this week. “Multi-family housing applications will be in the first part of the year,” Stein told reporters Wednesday. “And workforce [housing] will […]
Annette Weston/Public Radio East Seventy-two years after service members were first exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune, and three years after the passage of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, litigation over the resulting health impacts remains ongoing, with a new motion filed this week in an attempt to speed things up. Plaintiffs in the […]
Just in case leaving the U.S. Senate at the end of his current term isn’t definitive enough, Sen. Thom Tillis had a few more words to say Monday about his political future. Namely, that he’s done with offices that require a place on the ballot. “By finished, I do mean finished, at least on the […]
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, of course, was on hand for Monday’s Clean Energy Champions luncheon not so much to talk about his future but to discuss the uncertain times facing renewable energy technology. He counseled pragmatism and a strong, business-oriented focus. Doing the “right thing” in the sector, by itself, “should never be a justification” […]
U.S. House members are going to try to pass the long-awaited Lumbee recognition bill by incorporating it into an omnibus defense-spending bill. The move is already drawing criticism from the leaders of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Their principal chief, Michell Hicks, said the bill is “not the appropriate place to consider federal recognition” […]
Another of the Clean Energy Champions awards announced Monday went to Martin County farmers Ken and Johna Gurganus, in part for their efforts year to oppose House Bill 729. This was a proposal from state Rep. Jimmy Dixon, R-Duplin, and senior chairman of House Agriculture and Environment, that in its first draft would have sharply restricted […]
State Reps. Kyle Hall and Wyatt Gable received two of the “Clean Energy Champions” awards handed out Monday by Conservatives for Clean Energy’s North Carolina chapter, largely for a bill that addresses power-grid planning. Their proposal, House Bill 814, didn’t make it out of committee during this year’s long session, but neither Hall nor Conservatives […]
Two Democrats who’ve sometimes been part of House Speaker Destin Hall’s “working supermajority” face party primaries in the spring. Charlotte minister Rodney Sadler is running against District 106 incumbent Rep. Carla Cunningham, while Williamston resident Patricia Smith has signed up to oppose District 23 incumbent Shelly Willingham. Both incumbents have joined Republicans at times to overturn gubernatorial vetoes. Cunningham among […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Burlington and Asheboro: these two North Carolina cities are less than 50 miles apart, but when it comes to addressing the pollution each has caused in downstream drinking water on their respective rivers, the Haw and Deep rivers, they couldn’t be more different. One has worked through embarrassment and denial […]
Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger When Steve Hardman of Charlotte checked in to see a Novant Health sleep doctor earlier this year, the receptionist handed him a survey to fill out. Hardman, 66, had seen the questions before — Do you feel safe in your house? Can you afford food? He spent […]
Erik Verduzco & Allen G. Breed/The Associated Press A North Carolina judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man to be held without bond in a non-fatal stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train that drew comments from President Donald Trump pointing out the suspect is in the country illegally. Oscar Solarzano, 33, wearing an orange jumpsuit […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Tennessee Republican Matt Van Epps this week won a special U.S. House election for a conservative district that includes part of Nashville. The news, of course, was not that Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn, but that he only won by nine percentage points in a district that President Trump carried by […]
Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press The slow pace of the federal antitrust suit lodged against NASCAR continued Monday at the start of the second week of the trial, with high-profile witnesses not expected to make it to the stand anytime soon. Jeffrey Kessler, lead attorney for the two teams suing NASCAR, indicated he plans to call […]
Sarah Nagem/CityView North Carolina law prohibits anyone from serving in two elected positions—a county commissioner, for example, can’t also be a state senator. So some voters might wonder why John Lowery, chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina since 2022, can serve in the N.C. House. Lowery was appointed to the District 47 seat […]
