The state Court of Appeals will not hold a full “en banc” rehearing of the latest appeal from convicted murderer Kevin Salvador Golphin. An order released Tuesday showed that no judge on the 15-member court voted to grant the rehearing Golphin requested after his latest legal loss.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals has upheld a life sentence without parole for Kevin Salvador Golphin, one of two brothers who killed two law enforcement officers in Cumberland County in 1997.
Following her vote on Tuesday, Sen. Val Applewhite, D-Cumberland, found herself receiving “frightening” messages after voting in favor of H.B. 574, “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.” Other than Applewhite, the vote fell along party lines, passing by a margin of 31-17. The bill would prevent transgender athletes who are biologically male from participating in women’s sports....
“I just think it’s B.S,” Al Lowry said of ads portraying Beasley as pro law enforcement. “She’s for the criminals and not for the law officers, which my brother was one of them that got killed."
A failure of duty caused by lack of planning, coordination, and communication left hundreds of Americans and tens of thousands of allies in Afghanistan after a botched withdrawal from the country in August 2021, a new Senate report says. The U.S. will have to deal with the fallout of this failure for years to come,...
We’re winning in Afghanistan. That was the mantra, what they told us. Never entirely true. Some of it, maybe. Many of us in the U.S. were admittedly oblivious to the realities that Taliban fighters still maintained strongholds in the mountains, that ferocious attacks on allied military bases and outposts continued. Suicide bombings, car bombings. Winning? ...
Family members and lawmakers, in Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, representing N.C. residents are mourning the deaths of a Marine and soldier who died in a terrorist attack while helping Americans and others evacuate from Afghanistan. Thirteen service members, including a Fort Bragg soldier and Camp Lejuene Marine, died while supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, the Department...
The N.C. House voted unanimously Wednesday, Aug. 25, to pass a resolution urging Congress and the Biden administration to take additional steps to ensure all U.S. troops, American citizens, and Afghan allies are evacuated from Afghanistan before withdrawing a U.S. presence there. The resolution comes on the heels of a decision by the Biden administration...
Senate District 19 (Cumberland County). • Wesley Meredith, Republican (four-term incumbent). Occupation: Small business owner. Education: Fayetteville Technical Community College, associate’s degree in horticulture technology and management. Career Highlights: General Assembly Republican Majority Whip. Former Fayetteville City Councilman including two years as mayor pro tem. Decorated Army veteran. • Kirk DeViere, Democrat. Occupation: Small business...
This story was updated Aug. 24 with additional comment. Residents of municipalities and counties throughout North Carolina do indeed enjoy starting their Sundays with a cocktail. It’s likely that more than a few churchgoers also are imbibing — from Wilmington to Asheville and in more than 100 localities in between. All of North Carolina’s larger...
PEMBROKE — The Robeson County school board is apparently confused about its own transparency policies and the North Carolina Open Meetings Law. The board violated a court order when it voted, 6-4, on Jan. 10 to fire former Superintendent Tommy Lowry and hire Dr. Thomas Graves, an education consultant in Virginia. Superior Court Judge Jack...
