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News Articles: North Carolina

K.J. Adams #24, Remy Martin #11, Ochai Agbaji #30, and Christian Braun #2 of the Kansas Jayhawks celebrate after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels 72-69 during the 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament National Championship in New Orleans.

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Kansas uses its historic rally to claim a fourth men's NCAA basketball title

The Jayhawks break a 59-year-old record in staging the greatest comeback in NCAA title game history.

April 05, 2022
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  • Dustin Jones
Left to right: Caleb Love and David McCormack

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  • Sports

Two of college basketball's storied teams face off tonight

North Carolina and Kansas face off tonight at the Super Dome in New Orleans for a conclusion of college basketball's March Madness tournament.

April 04, 2022
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  • Jeff Dean
Phil Strach, an attorney for Republican legislators speaks during a partisan gerrymandering trial on Jan. 5, 2022, at Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh, N.C. A divided North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state's new maps for congressional and General Assembly seats on Friday.

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  • Politics

North Carolina's Supreme Court strikes down redistricting maps that gave GOP an edge

The divided court struck down the state's new maps for congressional and General Assembly seats. The ruling is a major victory for Democrats and their allies.

February 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A plume of smoke from the Winston Weaver Co. fertilizer plant fire drifts west on Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C. The uncontrolled fire at the fertilizer plant has forced thousands of people to evacuate the area around the plant.

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  • National

Explosion fears remain as North Carolina fertilizer plant burns for a third day

Winston-Salem officials said there is more ammonium nitrate at the plant that there was at 2013 Texas plant explosion that killed 15 people.

February 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Gabriel Fierro said he decided "on a whim" to play his fortune cookie numbers in last Tuesday's drawing — and ended up with the largest win in the history of Online Play in North Carolina.

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  • National

A veteran won a $4 million lottery prize using the numbers from a fortune cookie

The North Carolina man turned his meal at an Asian restaurant into a Mega Millions jackpot when his cookies turned out to be extra fortunate.

January 25, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Snow covers the Virginia Beach, Va., oceanfront on Saturday.

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Coastal Virginia and the Carolinas get snow and ice

A winter weather system brought colder temperatures and precipitation not often seen in the region. Authorities urged drivers to stay off the roads, which forecasters said are slick and snow-packed.

January 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Dontae Sharpe reacts outside the Pitt County Courthouse after a judge determined he could be set free on Aug. 22, 2019, in Greenville, N.C. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday pardoned Sharpe, who spent 24 years behind bars for a murder he has long said he did not commit.

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  • National

A North Carolina man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 24 years is pardoned

The pardon allows Dontae Sharpe to apply for compensation for his wrongful conviction for first-degree murder. A witness against him said her claims were made up, based on what investigators told her.

November 13, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Members of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina carry soil collected in honor of Joshua Halsey to his gravesite at the Pine Forest Cemetery in Wilmington, N.C., on Nov. 6. Great-granddaughters of Halsey attended the service, where the Rev. William Barber II eulogized Halsey.

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  • Race

A North Carolina city begins to reckon with the massacre in its white supremacist past

In 1898, a white supremacist mob burned the offices of Wilmington's Black-owned newspaper and gunned down scores of the city's African American residents. Now, the city is honoring some of the dead.

November 10, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco event in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2019. Benioff is a proponent of stakeholder capitalism, the belief that companies must look out for the broader good.

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  • Business

Why the Salesforce CEO wants to redefine capitalism by pushing for social change

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is an evangelist for stakeholder capitalism — the belief that companies should be driven by more than profits: They should also take care of the broader social good.

October 16, 2021
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  • David Gura
A screen grab from Brandon Warren's video of a fireball meteor taken on Sept. 24 at 7:40 p.m. in Willow Spring, N.C.

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  • Space

'Fireball' Meteor Caught On Camera Soaring Over North Carolina At 32,000 MPH

The bright phenomenon was videoed above the coast of North Carolina on Friday night. Sightings were also reported in South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.

September 28, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
When children and teachers wear masks in class, studies show it limits the spread of the coronavirus.

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  • Education

Yes, Gov. DeSantis, Studies Do Show Masks Curb Covid-19 In Schools

Several studies over the past year and a half have arrived at the same conclusion: mask wearing significantly limits transmission of the coronavirus in schools.

September 10, 2021
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  • Maria Godoy
Law enforcement officials look down from the rooftop as people gather near a press conference regarding the death of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, N.C.

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  • National

Loved Ones Mourn Andrew Brown Jr.: 'He Kept A Smile On His Face'

As the investigation into his death continues, Andrew Brown Jr. will be remembered with a funeral in Elizabeth City, N.C., on Monday. He was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies on April 21.

May 03, 2021
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  • Sarah McCammon
Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II (right) and Chief Deputy Daniel Fogg released a statement on Facebook on Saturday afternoon about the body camera footage related to the killing of Andrew Brown Jr.

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  • National

N.C. Sheriff Says He Wants To Release Bodycam Footage In Killing Of Andrew Brown Jr.

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II says his office wants the footage related to the killing of the 42-year-old Black man to be made public. The local NAACP is demanding Wooten's resignation.

April 26, 2021
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  • Laura Pellicer
Glenda Brown Thomas displays a photo of her nephew, Andrew Brown Jr., on Thursday. He was shot and killed Wednesday by a sheriff's deputy who was attempting to execute a warrant.

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  • Race

7 N.C. Sheriff's Deputies On Leave After Fatal Shooting Of Black Man

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II says the seven are on leave after the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. on Wednesday. Three other deputies' resignations were not related to the incident.

April 24, 2021
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  • Sarah McCammon
At a ballfield a few blocks from where Andrew Brown Jr. was killed by a sheriff's deputy in Elizabeth City, N.C., Daquail Alexander organized a vigil and protest in Brown's memory.

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  • National

'It Didn't Change': North Carolina Town Demands Answers After Another Fatal Shooting

Residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., are pressing for answers after a Black man, Andrew Brown Jr., was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy carrying out a search warrant on Wednesday.

April 22, 2021
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  • Sarah McCammon
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