Paul Woolverton/CityView Two campaign workers for Fayetteville mayoral candidate Mario Benavente filed complaints with the North Carolina State Board of Elections this week following a heated confrontation with an opposing campaign worker and another woman at the county’s early voting site on Monday morning. The complaints accuse Runae Montgomery, a...

Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot With the Board of Education’s ongoing discussions regarding the viability of unarmed security guards and short-staffed school resource officers (SROs), it’s worth examining the history, composition and challenges in hiring officers to fill the ranks of the Moore County Schools Police Department. The board is...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Susan Bean got off the bus a stop or two too late. The bus — the S3, down Hendersonville Road in South Asheville — completes a regular two-hour loop to the airport and back. Bean was hoping to get off at a location where she...

Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog The Blue Ridge Room, a parquet-floored hall in the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, can accommodate an audience of nearly 500. On a Wednesday night in April, the room had been arranged to fit a crowd about one-third that size. Later, after a couple...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Tensions among Cumberland County Republicans led to a physical altercation at a raucous GOP meeting on Thursday night, and two GOP activists levied misdemeanor assault charges against each other. The intra-party controversy stems from a dispute on whether it was wrong for five Republican leaders in the party,...

Morgan Casey/Border Belt Independent Over a dozen Fayetteville State University School of Nursing students on Tuesday made their way to the front of Seabrook Auditorium’s front lobby. They gathered around Darrell Allison, the university chancellor, and a display easel covered in a black cloth for a big announcement. One student’s...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Louisburg Mayor Christopher Neal thinks there’s about a 95% chance next week’s mayoral election will go to a runoff. If so, the 3,400 some odd-taxpayers in Louisburg, situated in the center of northeastern Franklin County, will be on the hook for up to $10,000 in estimated...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio With a video message on Friday, Gov. Josh Stein announced that he has signed the criminal justice reform bill known as “Iryna’s Law.” The General Assembly passed House Bill 307 in response to the widely publicized stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on board a Charlotte light rail...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The prospective buyer of a long-vacant office building in downtown High Point has cleared a hurdle in its plans to rehabilitate the property. The North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office recently approved architectural plans for the redevelopment of Showplace West at 101 S. Main St....

Sophia Luna/Education NC The governor’s Advisory Council for Student Safety and Well-Being meeting on Sept. 29 included discussions about challenges and opportunities to better support students’ mental health. Gov. Josh Stein formed the council in April with the mission to “propose and further implement solutions to promote school safety and...

Sarah White & Kathy Ross/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Some residents in the Dogwood Lakes neighborhood and the lower end of Beantown Road are worried a bad situation is repeating itself with an encampment along Jonathan Creek bringing back memories of a similar situation four years ago. The property owner, meanwhile, says...

Will Doran/WRAL News At their last formal meeting before Halloween, held Tuesday, some of North Carolina’s top elected officials were feeling spooked by a potential threat to trick-or-treaters: THC-laced candies, cookies and other treats whose packaging mimicks well-known brands. THC is legal, in small amounts, in North Carolina. The chemical...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Next week, the Wilmington City Council is set to discuss the acquisition of a property for parks and recreation use, with a resolution asking New Hanover County and the New Hanover Community Endowment to help pay for it. Some elected members from both the city and...

Richard Craver/The (Greensboro) News & Record A 2-year-old Greensboro boy who died July 17 at Valleygate Dental Surgery Center had not had any dental procedures before experiencing a fatal medical emergency, the N.C. State Board of Dental Examiners said Tuesday. The cause of death for Er’Mias Mitchell has not been...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio With a federal government shutdown now in effect, State Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green has sent guidance to public schools on what to expect. Green’s message assures public school administrators that he expects most federal funding to continue to flow to schools, although federal support and new initiatives...