Responders Chris Strader and Garret McFalls were dispatched to the scene, where they quickly assessed the danger and took swift action to turn drivers around, sending them safely back toward Tennessee on the westbound lanes.
As the campaign’s North Carolina state director, our goal was to win — and we believed we could, especially in a fair fight.
Republican North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is turning to North Carolina’s second-highest court for an order that would force state election officials to make a final decision about Griffin’s election protests Tuesday. The State Board of Elections had planned to hear oral arguments about the protests the following day, according to a document Griffin filed Friday with the state Court of Appeals.
Those looking for the hometown holiday experience should visit Marion, NC in the coming weeks.
An 11-state police officers association is supporting a former North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper’s case at the state’s highest court. The trooper is battling a state commission that challenges his “good moral character.”
The board of directors of NCInnovation, the private nonprofit leveraging $500 million in taxpayers’ money to pursue its leaders’ vision of commercializing more public university research in North Carolina, met virtually Thursday to discuss and vote on items related to a special “litigation committee” and other subcommittee business. While discussion of the special litigation committee...
Two University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students, Guillermo Estrada and Alex Jones, of Phi Kappa Phi fraternity were awarded the FOX Nation Award for Courage Thursday evening. Estrada and Jones captured national attention earlier this year when they, alongside fellow students, defended the American flag during a pro-Palestinian protest on UNC’s campus in Chapel Hill.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and a former porn store clerk filed competing federal court documents this week in Robinson’s defamation lawsuit that also involves CNN. The lieutenant governor challenges defendant Louis Money’s attempt to have the case dismissed.
North Carolina legislative leaders are asking a three-judge federal panel to throw out portions of two lawsuits challenging the state’s congressional and legislative election maps. Lawyers for top Republican lawmakers filed a motion Friday for partial summary judgment in the two suits, Williams v. Hall and North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. Berger. Both cases are scheduled for trial next summer.
On his 95th and last “Ask Me Anything” call with reporters Tuesday, North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell reflected on his time as the 28th keeper of the public purse and what he thinks lies ahead for him and the state.
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses legislation that would shift the NC State Board of Elections to the state auditor’s office. King offered these comments during the Nov. 29, 2024, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
North Carolina Senate Democrats have chosen Senator Sydney Batch, D-Wake, as their new minority party leader, following the long-anticipated decision by Senator Dan Blue, D-Wake, to step down. While the two are both from deep-blue Wake County, the shift indicates a change in tactics for the Senate Democrats.
North Carolina senators have returned to Raleigh for their final legislative actions of the year, which include pushing through three constitutional amendments that would cap income taxes, make changes to the state’s voter ID laws, and join a national effort to impose term limits on members of Congress.
NC Republicans were not the first in the state to draw maps favorable to their own party. And nationally, they are hardly the only ones currently doing so.
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With 60 of North Carolina’s 100 counties completing recounts in a closely contested state Supreme Court race, appointed incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs’ lead has dropped by 67 votes over Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin. Riggs still leads Griffin by 655 votes as the remaining counties continue their counts.
Democratic gubernatorial candidates for governor and Attorney General Josh Stein, along with Jeff Jackson, emerged victorious in the Mecklenburg County vote over their Republican opponents Lt. Governor Mark Robinson and Congressman Dan Bishop. Ballots are still being counted for some close state legislative races in the area.
Monifa Drayton the party's executive director, sent a scathing resignation email just one day after the election claiming, “gross negligence of governance, accountability, spending controls, basic employment practices and subjugation to a persistent hostile environment."
An amendment to the state constitution, which only allows non-citizens to vote in any state election, has passed.
