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News Articles: North Carolina

Anderson Clayton, 25, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, is the youngest state party chair in the country. She wants to help Democrats reach rural and young voters.

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  • Politics

A 25-year-old from a small town leads North Carolina's Democratic Party toward 2024

Anderson Clayton is the youngest — and only Gen Z — state party chair in the country. She wants to help President Biden win over young and rural voters in her state next November.

September 07, 2023
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By:
  • Elena Moore and
  • Ximena Bustillo
Dr. Mandy Cohen testifying before a congressional committee as a leader of  Medicare and Medicaid. More recently, the new director of the CDC headed North Carolina's health department.

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  • Health

The painful pandemic lessons Mandy Cohen carries to the CDC

President Biden and others have lauded Mandy Cohen's pandemic leadership in North Carolina. Those in the state's most vulnerable communities tell a more nuanced story about the new CDC director.

August 23, 2023
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By:
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly,
  • Rachana Pradhan,
  • and 1 more
A female red wolf is shown in its habitat at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C.

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  • Animals

More endangered red wolves will be released in the U.S. under a legal settlement

There were only an estimated seven red wolves left in the wild when a coalition of conservation organizations decided to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

August 10, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Law enforcement are at the scene of a mass shooting at a Walmart, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Chesapeake, Va.

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  • National

An SUV strikes 6 migrant workers in Walmart parking lot in North Carolina

Police are still working to identify the vehicle and driver in the Sunday afternoon incident.

July 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman
An aerial view shows damage to a Pfizer pharmaceutical factory in Rocky Mount, N.C., from a tornado that struck on July 19. The plant produces many drugs used in hospitals.

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  • Health

Tornado damage to Pfizer factory highlights vulnerabilities of drug supply

A tornado that ripped through a Pfizer plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., raised worries about shortages of medicines used in hospitals. The drugs include commonly used painkillers and anesthetics.

July 27, 2023
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Signage stands on the main gate to Camp Lejeune Marine Base outside Jacksonville, N.C., Friday, April 29, 2022.

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  • National

3 found dead at North Carolina gas station are identified as Marines stationed nearby

The three men were found unresponsive Sunday morning in a privately owned car at a Speedway gas station in Hampstead, N.C. Medical authorities pronounced all three dead the same day.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Bridget Narsh at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Narsh's son has autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, and ADHD. In 2020, he spent more than 100 days at Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility. The state billed the family nearly $102,000 for the hospitalizations.

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  • Mental Health

A mom owed nearly $102,000 for her son's stay in a state mental health hospital

One North Carolina family's six-figure medical bill came from a state hospital. The attorney general, who is running for governor and says he's against high medical costs, tried to collect the debt.

July 19, 2023
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By:
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly
Erica Payne, founder of Patriotic Millionaires, offers a crash course on economic inequality to residents of Whiteville, N.C. The group wants working-class voters to lobby Congress on raising the minimum wage and taxing the rich.

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  • National

These millionaires want to tax the rich, and they're lobbying working-class voters

A group called Patriotic Millionaires has failed to get Congress to raise their taxes or boost the minimum wage. Now they're taking their concerns about inequality to swing-state voters.

June 13, 2023
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
Demonstrators Gwendolyn Perrette, left, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Miriam Billanuava, of Birmingham, Ala., chant with others outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., March 8, 2013.

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  • News

Supreme Court opened the door to states' voting restrictions. Now a new ruling could widen them.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country. Republican-led states continue to pass voting restrictions that, in several cases, would have been subject to federal review had the court left the provision intact.

June 06, 2023
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  • Associated Press
In this screenshot taken from Camden County Detention Center surveillance video provided by attorney Harry Daniels, jailers beat detainee Jarrett Hobbs at the facility, in Georgia, on Sept. 3, 2022.

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  • News

3 former officers indicted in beating of Georgia jail detainee

A grand jury in Georgia has indicted three former sheriff's officers in the beating of a Black jail detainee that was recorded by security cameras.

May 19, 2023
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  • Associated Press
The sign on the stone gate of the Army's training hub in Georgia is changed from ⁦Fort Benning ⁩to Fort Moore in honor of Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife, Julia.

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  • News

Army officially designates Fort Moore, dropping Confederate name Benning

The Army's training hub in Georgia is now officially called Fort Moore. The Army completed a name change Thursday that's been a year in the making at the base known previously as Fort Benning.

May 11, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Kinsley White, 6, shows reporters her wound on Thursday in Gastonia, N.C.

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  • National

The N.C. man accused of shooting a 6-year-old and her parents was arrested in Florida

Authorities say Robert Singletary turned himself in to the sheriff's office in Tampa on Thursday, two days and some 600 miles away from the shooting. One victim is still in the hospital.

April 21, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Robert Louis Singletary, 24, is facing four counts of attempted first-degree murder and other charges after Tuesday night's shooting.

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  • National

A suspect is wanted for shooting a 6-year-old after a basketball rolled into his yard

Authorities are looking for the North Carolina man they say shot a kindergartner and three others. It's the fourth high-profile incident this week in which apparent mistakes were met with gunshots.

April 20, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Camel cigarettes, manufactured by Reynolds American, are displayed at a tobacco shop in San Francisco in July 2014. Reynolds was one of the tobacco companies to voluntarily adopt child labor policies that exceed the requirements of U.S. law.

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  • Business

12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes — but they can work in tobacco fields

Child labor rules in agriculture are looser than those in other industries, even for tasks that are dangerous. For all tobacco laborers, but especially kids, the work can cause nicotine poisoning.

April 17, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
Burna Boy

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  • Music

Here's a few of our favorite photos from the 2023 Dreamville Music Festival

This year's performers included J. Cole, Drake, Usher, Burna Boy, City Girls, Ari Lennox, Summer Walker, JID and many more.

April 04, 2023
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  • Alanté Serene Millow
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