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Who are John Noonan and Susan Ralston, and why are they organizing a GoFundMe for a UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity?
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A House bill ordering North Carolina sheriffs and jailers to comply with federal immigration requests to hold an inmate suspected of being in the country illegally passed the state Senate.
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Some UNC-Chapel Hill students set up an encampment midday Friday to protest the ongoing war in Gaza.
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Prison leaders say that 2024 will be an inflection year to make significant progress breaking down barriers formerly incarcerated people face when returning to the community.
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The Dueling Dinosaurs Exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science has its grand opening this weekend.
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The most recent data show 739 people living unhoused in Asheville and the surrounding area, but new methodology in counting played a role in the documented increase, officials said.
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The program was created as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 and was a follow-up to the Emergency Broadband Benefit, which helped households afford internet access during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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If you’ve been placing online sports bets since FanDuel, DraftKings and the like went live in North Carolina last month, you might want to prepare for a bigger tax bill next year — even if you lose. That’s because of a quirk in the federal tax law, which The Ledger's Tony Mecia wrote about. He joined us for BizWorthy, where we discussed this story and others.
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David Joseph Gietzen struck a police officer with a pole during a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He was arrested at his mother's home last December.
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The Rehab 12 fire truck will include several upgrades such as sanitation stations created to offer firefighters protection on the job.
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It’s been nearly a year since a fire devoured an apartment complex under construction in SouthPark and killed two workers. Now state fire officials are hoping new stricter rules designed to keep construction sites safer will prevent such a tragedy from happening again. Gavin Off wrote about it for the Charlotte Observer and joined us on Morning Edition to talk about his work.
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Nearly 40% of North Carolina correctional officer positions are vacant. And thousands of beds at prisons across the state are closed because there aren’t enough certified officers to cover them.