Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point was announced earlier this week as one of six recipients of the 2024 Commander In Chief’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence.
Comments on the North Carolina Rate Bureau’s request for an average increase of 42% in homeowners’ insurance rates were heard Monday during a public comment forum both in person at the NC Department of Insurance and online.
"It is highly concerning that the U.S. Army is directing service members to apply for SNAP benefits because of the real-world consequences of the policy failures of the Biden Administration," Budd said.
The Lee County School Board voted unanimously to take no action against Republican board member Sherry-Lynn Womack after board attorney Jimmy Love found she violated no board policies by attending the Trump Rally in Washington, D.C., last month. Womack was cleared after a long school board meeting Tuesday, Feb. 9. As reported by the News...
State Rep. Holly Grange, a New Hanover County Republican, made it official. She’s running in 2020 for governor. Grange announced her bid Thursday, July 18, in a news release and video. Grange, who has served in the General Assembly since 2016, is a West Point graduate and served in the U.S. Army for 15 years....
House District 21 (Portions of Sampson, Duplin, and Wayne counties.) • Robert Freeman, Republican. Occupation: Retired veteran and school administrator. Education: Saint Leo University, bachelor’s in human resources administration. East Carolina University, master’s of school administration. Career highlights: Served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force including service in Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm,...
Four towns in Mecklenburg County can open and run their own charter schools apart from the local board of education. After lengthy — sometimes heated — debate, House Bill 514 passed 64-53 on Wednesday, June 6, and it’s now law. It’s a local bill, so the governor’s doesn’t need to sign it, and it’s not...
Update: This story was updated at 10 a.m. May 1 to clarify the candidates’ respective position on offshore testing and drilling. Republican Primary, state House District 6: Currituck, Dare, Hyde, and Pamlico Counties Beverly Boswell (incumbent, one term). Education: Graduate, Northern Nash Senior High school. Occupation: Medical assistant and phlebotomist. Career Highlights: Member of the...
Republican primary, House District 14, Onslow County • George Cleveland (incumbent, seven terms). Education: B.S. in mathematics education, University of Maryland-College Park. Retired, 25-year Marine Corps decorated veteran and Vietnam veteran, business owner, teacher. Career highlights: Committee chairman of Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs; Appropriations, General Government; Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on General Government;...
Eighty-two-year-old U.S. Army veteran Joe Muldoon made his first jump from an airplane Saturday afternoon with his 21-year-old grandson Mason. Joe, a Cleveland-area resident, said he wanted to do something special to coincide with the likely nomination of Donald Trump at this week’s Republican National Convention. On Friday, this reporter was at the Cleveland Skydiving...
RALEIGH — “We’re in trouble” in the Middle East, according to the retired U.S. Army brigadier general and best-selling military thriller author who also happens to oversee the N.C. Department of Transportation. Tony Tata offered his assessment of the Middle East during a presentation Monday to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
