Top 10 7. Greenway request draws crowd Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A standing-room-only crowd came to the City Council meeting Monday to weigh in on a...
Top 10 8. UNC System chooses Kenan-Flagler alum, former Domino’s CEO as latest UNC-Chapel Hill trustee Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The first of two new appointments to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees was made recently, as the...
Top 10 9. Durham Council denies Moriah Ridge Wes Platt/Southpoint Access Many Mt. Moriah Road residents may be feeling some relief today after the Durham City Council voted...
Top 10 10. Former city employee charged with 78 felonies for fraudulent purchases Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald A 47-year-old man who was listed as Sanford’s traffic services supervisor in a recent Google...
Top 10 1. Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, but import taxes still in place for Canada and China Josh Boak, Rob Gillies & Fabiola Sánchez/The Associated Press U.S. President Donald Trump held off Monday on his tariff threats...
Top 10 2. Trump is using a nearly 50-year-old law to justify new tariffs. It may not be legal. Ari Hawkins/Politico President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China may be illegal under the Constitution. But blocking...
Top 10 3. Divided visions stall progress at Elizabethtown Industrial Park Ben Rappaport/Border Belt Independent Bladen County wants its money back. The county gave Elizabethtown $100,000 in April 2023 to create...
Top 10 4. Trump’s DOT: Want highways and transit? Get married, have babies. Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Trump administration said last week that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award grant money for...
Top 10 5. Pilots have long worried about DC’s complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe Ryan J. Foley, Jim Mustian & Michael Biesecker/The Associated Press The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex —...
Top 10 6. Waiting for heating oil? Blame demand, not supply Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) (Mountaineer The telephone at McElroy Oil began ringing off the hook about three days before the cold...
Top 10 7. Financial pressures loom for Saint Augustine’s as HBCU continues accreditation fight Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio The pressure is mounting for Saint Augustine’s University to balance its finances. The private HBCU has $32...
Top 10 8. When ICE comes to church Andy Olsen/Christianity Today When federal agents took her husband away, Kenia Colindres was fasting. It helped her listen for God,...
Top 10 9. Gone to the dogs: NC county’s animal control has been a pet peeve for many Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Whose job is it to protect local pets? State law is vague. Because of that, the...
Top 10 10. NC moves to end police involvement in transporting mental health patients Taylor Knopf/NC Health News When someone is having a mental health crisis — whether they’re thinking about suicide, acting erratically...
Top 10 1. Third Black Hawk crew member involved in deadly crash near DC airport identified as Durham native and UNC grad Tom Bowman/WUNC Radio The Army released the name of the third crew member of the Black Hawk helicopter that slammed...