Fayetteville Area News
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The proposal would create a statute making it a high-grade felony to purposefully damage or attempt to damage an energy facility, including those that transmit or distribute electricity or fuel. Senators on Tuesday opted to tack on cybersecurity safeguards before sending the bill to the House.
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To have a career in teaching, every beginning teacher must first pass a test. More than 1,000 teachers have struggled to pass their exams on time, including this art teacher in Cumberland County Schools.
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A bill that advanced Tuesday through the Senate Judiciary Committee combines several previously vetoed measures that would ease requirements to purchase handguns and allow people to carry concealed firearms in more locations, including some schools based in houses of worship.
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The North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs paid tribute to one of the first Black recruits in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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The nonprofit NC GreenPower secured funding to install high-efficiency LED lighting in 60 school gyms as a sustainability effort.
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The shootings at a Moore County substation had cut power to 45,000 customers, as well as schools, businesses and a hospital.
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Duke Energy completed repairs Wednesday on electric substation equipment damaged in shootings over the weekend in central North Carolina.
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Tens of thousands of people are bracing for days without electricity in a North Carolina county where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent.
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Chemical company Chemours wants to expand existing operations at its Fayetteville Works facility. Chemours is responsible for discharging toxic chemicals known as PFAS into the Cape Fear River.
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Classes were canceled and students sheltered in place after the bomb threat in February.
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Hundreds of families are still displaced from their homes years after Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. Some families have been living in hotels for years waiting for repairs to start.
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Over a dozen North Carolina municipalities or counties are choosing new elected officials, with some picking party nominees for the fall.