In a 2024 poll of NC voters, more than 80% of Democrats and Republicans said that it is more compassionate for homeless people to sleep in designated camping areas than to be left to sleep on the street.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will not take up a case involving a homeless man who brought guns to the University of North Carolina campus in 2021 and left them in his parked car. The state Appeals Court agreed in May to throw out the man’s conviction for bringing guns to an educational property.
Lawyers for a homeless man convicted of bringing guns to the University of North Carolina campus when he sought medical treatment at UNC Hospitals in 2021 urge the state Supreme Court to reject the state’s appeal in the case. The state Court of Appeals ruled in May that a North Carolina law banning guns on educational property was unconstitutional as applied to the facts of Joseph John Radomski III’s case.
A federal judge will allow advocates for Asheville’s homeless population to continue pursuing their lawsuit against the city. The suit challenges Asheville’s decision in 2021 to ban the 15 plaintiffs from city parks.
Unsheltered homelessness is often thought of as a problem typical of big west coast cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, but North Carolinians are taking notice of a similar trend in their own backyards.
*This story was corrected on October 12, 2022 Joshua Rohrer, a homeless veteran with PTSD, was arrested Oct. 13, 2021, for panhandling and resisting arrest. During the struggle with police, Rohrer’s dog, Sunshine, was tazed in the struggle. The officer involved says the dog bit his boot. The Gastonia Police Department maintains their officers acted...
Raleigh will add yet another hip cafe to its booming downtown this September on the corner of Martin and Wilmington streets. But unlike most foodie hot-spots in the middle of the capital’s downtown, this is one that — no matter how popular it becomes — never will turn a profit. And that’s exactly the point,...
CHARLOTTE — Kathy and Peter Braun have won what they believe is a partial victory for parents with young children in Charlotte’s public schools. Still, they shake their heads in astonishment at the hoops they were forced to jump through to convince officials of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools that the book Maniac Magee isn’t appropriate for third-graders. For months, system administrators rejected the couple’s pleas for a meeting with the committees reviewing their official challenge to the use of the book, based on concerns about its language and themes.
