Judge will not block depositions about Tyrrell Confederate monument
A federal judge has rejected Tyrrell County’s request to block depositions from current and former county commissioners in a lawsuit targeting the county’s Confederate monument.
Tyrrell County commissioners are asking a federal judge to allow them to avoid testifying in a lawsuit related to a Confederate monument outside the county courthouse.
A federal judge will allow a Tyrrell County group to move forward with its lawsuit against a 123-year-old Confederate monument outside the county courthouse. A court order Wednesday allowed one of two pieces of the lawsuit to proceed.
North Carolina will make sure Tyrrell County won’t default on its debt, but the intervention buys just one year. Tyrrell County borrowed millions to build a reverse osmosis water plant and a new water tank to support its state prison in the late 2000s. But the N.C. Department of Public Safety shuttered Tyrrell Prison Work...
Dental hygienists could gain more freedom to treat patients in rural areas and nursing homes. The N.C. Board of Dental Examiners has a chance to change regulations on hygienists Thursday, Jan. 16, when the state Rules Review Commission will consider freeing hygienists to perform reversible procedures without direct dental supervision in shortage areas. North Carolina...