Elizabeth Baier
Digital News EditorElizabeth “Liz” Baier is WUNC’s Digital News Editor. She joined the station in May 2016 after eight year of reporting for Minnesota Public Radio News where she covered everything from demographic changes in rural America, agriculture, the environment and health care. Prior to that, Liz worked for six years as a newspaper reporter in South Florida, both at the Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Liz can be reached at ebaier@wunc.org.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered Sunday in Elizabeth City, N.C., to demand justice and accountability for the death of Andrew Brown Jr., the Black man who was shot and killed by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies serving drug-related search and arrest warrants a week and a half ago. -
Protesters took to the streets in Elizabeth City Monday night following the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s office partial release of body camera video in the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. The protests remained peaceful early in the night, as crowds marched through the city chanting: “Say his name! Andrew Brown!” and "One shot — too many. Twenty seconds — not enough."
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North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper wants to lift most capacity and gathering restrictions on June 1. In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Cooper said COVID-19 trends in North Carolina are stable enough to plan for another step in the state's reopening as long as more people get vaccinated.
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On March 24, 2020, COVID-19 claimed its first recorded life in North Carolina. Since then, the pandemic has upended our communities, our families, and our lives in devastating ways. This series aims to tell the life stories of some of those we've lost too soon.
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Epic Games is moving its headquarters to the Cary Towne Center. The company announced the purchase of the building on Sunday. Epic Games says they plan to…
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Updated at 2:30 p.m.Elections officials will recount votes in the race for North Carolina's Supreme Court chief justice. The statewide recount will begin…
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More than 200 people marched around downtown Durham Wednesday afternoon calling for a proper tally of all ballots cast in Tuesday's election.Marchers held…
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State elections officials say they will continue to count votes as local elections boards process remaining mail-in and provisional ballots that are…
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Updated at 2:40 a.m. on 11/4/2020It was too soon to call North Carolina's U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Thom Tillis and Democratic…
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Updated at 10:32 a.m. Aug. 29, 2020 Hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Raleigh Friday night to denounce police violence and the recent killings…
