Tyler Davis/The (Henderson) Daily Digest The muckraking has begun. Well, the NC House District 32 race has been a little heated for some time now. Democratic candidate Bryan Cohn took a pot shot against incumbent Rep. Frank Sossamon on social media — one post compared the representative to the character...

Tom Joyce/Mount Airy News The Renfro company based in Mount Airy long has been known as a producer and marketer of socks and legwear products, but is expanding into the athletic and lifestyle apparel segment. This is occurring through Renfro Brands’ acquisition of MJ Soffe, a strategic diversification move that...

Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson went to the hospital Friday evening after being burnt during a campaign event. Matt Hurley, a political consultant recently hired onto Robinson’s campaign, wrote on social media that the Republican gubernatorial candidate was “currently being treated for burns following an incident at a...

Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Wake Forest University announced Thursday that it would be canceling a campus lecture led by a Palestinian scholar and activist. Rabab Abdulhadi is a professor and founding director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program at San Francisco State University. She was scheduled to...

Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice By a 6-1 tally at a special Sept. 26 meeting, the Dare County Board of Education approved a motion to ask the Dare County Commissioners to fund a “universal meals” program that would provide free meals to all students in the Dare County Schools. That presentation...

Kevin Hardy & Casey Quinlan/NC Newsline The signs on the empty historic buildings envision an urban utopia of sorts, complete with street cafes, bustling bike lanes and a grocery co-op. “IMAGINE What Could Be Here,” gushes one sign outside the empty, Neoclassical post office. “IMAGINE! A Vibrant Downtown,” reads another...

Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz The Port of Wilmington has released a contingency plan ahead of a possible strike. Contract negotiations are ongoing between the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance Ltd., an entity representing the management of ports, terminals and shipping lines. The current contract is set to expire...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan & Emily Thomas/Education NC As the N.C. Community College System (NCCCS) awaits funding from lawmakers to enact the system’s new funding model, Propel NC, system leadership is working to make sure that policies, codes, and guidance to support local colleges is available if funding is approved. “We...

Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio More North Carolina high schoolers are taking college-level classes and passing exams to earn college credit than ever before. Many high schools offer Advanced Placement (AP) classes designed to teach college-level content. Students who pass a standardized final exam for the class can earn college credit for...

Jakob Emerson/Becker’s Hospital Review GLP-1 manufacturers are now offering significant discounts to entice payers and employers to cover their popular medications, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 20. Weight loss medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy can cost upward of $10,000 a year, leaving insurers, health systems, state health plans...

Shaun Gallagher/WRAL News A video showing a Cary man jackhammering a trail entrance has garnered a major reaction online. A Reddit user posted the video to the social media site on Monday. It shows the confrontation between two men over a trail entrance between two properties on Montibello Drive in...

Christopher Miller/Independent Tribune New details of the new Coltrane-Webb/Beverly Hills STEM Replacement School were shared with the public during a construction update meeting Tuesday at the new R. Brown McAllister school. The $50.6 million school will be built on the property of the old Coltrane-Webb school and will be similar...

Mary Smith/CBS 17 News State Sen. Mary Wills Bode is advocating for changes to the law and processes at register of deeds offices statewide after a woman was accused of filing a fraudulent warranty deed on a home in Wake County. Homeowner Dr. Craig Adams, a local dentist, contacted Senator...

Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Maggie Valley’s former police chief has filed a lawsuit against the town, claiming his firing was an act of retaliation. Russell Gilliland filed the lawsuit on Sept. 12, alleging that his termination was the result of the chief his pursuit of criminal charges against the son...

Evey Weisblat/CityView Local educational and grassroots efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of consuming PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, seem to be paying off. According to new research, Fayetteville area residents who enrolled in a N.C. State study testing the levels of toxic forever chemicals in their blood...