Ray Gronberg
Recent Stories
10. NHC school board bans student art, family photos from classrooms, school grounds
At last night’s New Hanover County Board of Education meeting, members voted four to one to further amend policies 7300...
1. HCA tells employees NCDHHS found Mission has met federal standards
Mission Hospital has been found to be compliant with federal standards after a state inspection late May at the HCA...
2. Conservative attacks on birth control could threaten access
Republican lawmakers in Missouri blocked a bill to widen access to birth-control pills by falsely claiming they induce abortions. An...
3. State ‘forever chemicals’ spotlight: North Carolina’s drinking water contamination
Drinking water for at least 2.5 million North Carolinians is contaminated with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS at...
4. Toyota car certification probe prompts calls for rules review
The safety requirements that led Toyota, Honda and other Japanese carmakers to falsify certification tests may be overly stringent and...
5. NC sheriff’s office losing insurance coverage after 11 jail deaths, costing county
Eleven deaths in the county jail, a subsequent lawsuit and criminal charges against an employee proved too much for an...
6. Appeals panel sends Kituwah LLC back to court: Lawsuit alleges theft of trade secrets from other tribally owned company
A lawsuit filed against Kituwah LLC that was initially dismissed is heading back to court after the 11th Circuit Court...
7. Early College stirs passions at Dare Board meeting
Several meetings are now scheduled to discuss the plan for a new Dare County Early College after it became a...
8. Multiple community members plea for commissioners to keep Port City United
A half-dozen public speakers attended the commissioners’ meeting Monday to compel the New Hanover County board against dissolving Port City...
9. WS/FCS considers revisions to Code of Character, Conduct, and Support
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools officials met Tuesday afternoon to discuss what is and isn’t working in the district’s student code of...
10. Suspended Blue Ridge Community College police trainers to appear before NC standards board
Six suspended police instructors from a halted law enforcement program at Blue Ridge Community College in Henderson County are set...
1. North Carolina state senator drops effort to restrict access to autopsy reports
An effort to exempt autopsy reports from North Carolina’s public records requirements was abandoned Tuesday by a Senate Republican, who...
2. Judge rules abortion drug can be taken at home in North Carolina
A North Carolina federal judge overruled a spate of new state laws that imposed new requirements on the use of...