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10. Henderson County identifies more than two dozen cases in whooping cough outbreak

Henderson County health officials are tracking a local outbreak of whooping cough. The Health Department has confirmed 27 cases, with...

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1. Will NC pass medical marijuana this year? This Democrat may not lend his support again

Despite repeated efforts to pass a medical marijuana legalization bill by a powerful Republican lawmaker, North Carolina remains one of...

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2. Farley, Winston offer contrast in labor commissioner race

North Carolina still elects a labor commissioner, whose main job is to ensure safe workplaces. That includes maintaining safe elevators...

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3. If you’ve been placing sports bets in North Carolina, you might get a higher tax bill

If you’ve been placing online sports bets since FanDuel, DraftKings and the like went live in North Carolina last month,...

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4. Three thousand people were released from NC prisons to homelessness last year

About one in six people released from North Carolina prisons in 2023 were homeless, according to figures provided to NC...

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5. Feds letting timber harvest targets interfere with protecting national forest ecology in NC, lawsuit says

Harvesting enough trees to meet federal timber targets nationally is inappropriately taking precedent over ecological considerations when the U.S. Forest...

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6. Dog bites man: In Wilkes County, a commissioner’s past charges for dogfighting have helped bridge a partisan divide.

In the fall of 2001, police in New Jersey raided an Ocean County warehouse to break up an illegal dogfighting...

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7. RDU plane crash: Aircraft ‘bounced’ during landing attempt, pilot expected to recover

New information was released Thursday about what caused a plane to crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU). The Federal Aviation...

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8. Busted: WNC Rep. Chuck Edwards sanctioned for abusing communications standards

Western North Carolina Congressman Chuck Edwards (R-Henderson) has been unanimously sanctioned by the bipartisan House Communications Standards Commission for violating...

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9. School Board blocks private-meeting recording

The Moore County Board of Education recently adopted a policy revision prohibiting attendees of closed-session meetings from taking photos or...

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10. Mixed emotions at town hall on future of Fayetteville’s E.E. Smith High School

If there was one thing the crowd of 230 people in E.E. Smith’s auditorium could agree on Tuesday night, it...

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1. How Randy Woodson became N.C. State University’s politically invincible chancellor

On a Sunday night in March, a Delta flight from Atlanta to Raleigh was late, but the delay didn’t diminish...

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2. Staff reductions contributed to Mission’s soaring profits after HCA sale, draft report says

Mission Hospital’s patient care profits have skyrocketed since its purchase by HCA Healthcare in 2019, largely because of cost cutting...

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3. NC treasurer supports FTC’s Novant antitrust suit, argues merger would increase costs for taxpayers

Last week, Treasurer Dale Folwell filed a brief in support of a federal antitrust action to block Novant Health’s purchase...

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4. Judge strikes down North Carolina law on prosecuting ex-felons who voted before 2024

A federal judge has halted the enforcement of a North Carolina law that made it a serious crime for someone...

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