The US has reached a trade pact with the Philippines, imposing a 19% import tariff.
A federal court has rejected former top N.C. political donor Greg Lindberg’s request to drop GPS monitoring while he awaits a new trial. The federal government plans to retry Lindberg on charges of bribery and fraud in connection with his campaign donations.
It has been a long time since I lived on Hillock Drive, which runs off North Hills Drive near Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh. My parents moved there with their two children, Joy and Brad, in 1971. I came along two years later as, my mom says, their “postscript.” It was a great, safe neighborhood to grow up in, and I spent my entire...
RALEIGH — In a scuffle pitting tax dollars versus private funding and the public sector against the free market, the bail bonds industry in North Carolina says that government-funded pretrial release programs seek to run them out of business.
RALEIGH — Dr. Hamdy A. Radwan, president of the Raleigh chapter of the Muslim American Society and professor of physical therapy at Winston- Salem State University, was interviewed by Carolina Journal Editor Richard Wagner. The interview was conducted Nov. 29 at MAS’s office on Western Boulevard in Raleigh.
RALEIGH — Individuals involved in domestic and international terrorism not only have infiltrated American society, but also have initiated some of their activities in North Carolina, a top federal law-enforcement official in Charlotte and experts on radical Islam say.
RALEIGH — Winston S. Churchill III maintains that Islamic fundamentalism is as destructive as the malevolent "isms" of the 20th century: Nazism, Communism and Facism. In a speech on recently at the John Locke Foundation's anniversary dinner, the grandson of Winston Churchill urged the West to stay the course in the fight against extremist Islam.
RALEIGH — Dick Ellis, currently the public information officer for the Administrative Office of the Courts, was a combat correspondent during the Vietnam War. He was a recent speaker at the John Locke Foundation’s weekly Shaftesbury Society Discussion Club and was interviewed for Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you) by John Locke Foundation President John Hood.
Several arrests involve terror suspects who attended college in N.C., including two of the most important ones recently in the war on terror: the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the United States and al Qaeda’s No. 3 operative, considered "The Brain."
