Chatham County

Chatham County created a farmland preservation plan in 2010. Since then, the county's population has grown by more than 20 percent.

The $5 billion Siler City plant, announced last year, will make silicon carbide wafers, which are the building blocks of semiconductors.

Chatham Community Library partnered with a local group to put together the moving memorial for the victims.

About 1,800 workers will make silicon carbide wafers. They will be shipped to a plant in New York, where computer chips will be imbedded into them.

"We feel that Singapore is a jurisdiction that will give investors more confidence," VinFast CEO Le Thi Thu Thuy told Reuters in an interview.

A Vietnamese automaker has chosen to open its first U.S. plant in Chatham County and is planning to pump out as many as 150,000 electric vehicles starting in 2024.

The incident happened earlier this month at an elementary school in Goldston.

Parents denounced the incident during public comment at Monday night's school board meeting, and dozens of community members rallied outside the meeting.

A local governing board in North Carolina has formally apologized for the mob lynching of a Black boy unlawfully taken from a jail in 1921. Now a century later, the Board of Commissioners in Chatham County, North Carolina, issued its apology Tuesday, calling it a step toward community healing.

The Rev. Julio Martinez put a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the back of a pickup truck and celebrated the festival in the front yards of church members.