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General Q&A about life in North Carolina for the conservative

A judge’s order could delay the start of construction on the next segment of the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway unless contested condemnation claims are resolved by this coming fall. Attorney Matthew Bryant said Forsyth County Superior Court Judge John Craig would be signing orders this week dismissing some new condemnation proceedings started recently by the N.C. Department of Transportation against some landowners in the beltway segment planned between Reidsville and New Walkertown roads. Those new condemnation proceedings were started as part of the state’s effort to acquire land for that beltway segment, which is scheduled to go to contract this fall....

Rolling Stone published a February 28 story which featured North Carolina state senator Jeff Jackson (D) who vociferously blamed President Trump for the Jewish community center bomb threats around the nation. Bad timing for him because just three days later, on Friday, a suspect was arrested for the JCC threats. Very inconveniently for Jackson and many liberals the suspect, Juan Thompson, turned out to be an anti-Trump leftist. So what was the reaction of Jackson and the Rolling Stone? Contrition? An apology? Naw. Complete silence.  Like much of the rest of the mainstream media as pointed out by Newsbusters' Brad Wilmouth,...

'Game of Thorns' book goes inside Trump, Clinton campaigns. Historian and author Doug Wead stated in his new book that "The secret service agent present for hours at the hotel, confirmed that there was smashing of glass and long periods of heated shouting." "Hillary "was angry." "Ed Rendell was on public TV saying I just left Hillary and she was very angry." Per Doug Wead, "Hillary freaked out." "The numbers from North Carolina were what really disturbed her."

Concord-based Alevo Energy is considering spending more than $250 million to expand production at its utility battery plant and add 202 jobs there. This week, Concord City Council voted to offer Alevo $4.2 million in corporate incentives if it chooses to expand and add jobs over the coming five years. Cabarrus County is considering a similar offer. “The jobs and the investment can have an important impact on the whole community,” says Joseph Beasley, economic development coordinator at the city of Concord. For Alevo, the project would become the first major infusion of capital since its owners announced in 2014...

<p>“Don’t go to Cary tomorrow….For too long the kuffar [non-Muslims] have spit in our faces and trampled our rights. This cannot continue. I cannot speak of anything. Say your dua [prayers], sleep, and watch the news tomorrow. It will only be the beginning.”</p>

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – A man with connections to a white supremacy group was arrested in Myrtle Beach Wednesday after purchasing a gun from an undercover FBI agent, apparently intending to commit an attack “in the spirit of Dylann Roof.” Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 29, from Conway, was arrested at around 5 p.m. Wednesday by the FBI, according to records from the J. Reuben Long Detention Center. On December 26, 2016, McDowell posted to Facebook a message: “I love love to act what u think,” followed by a link to the Temple Emanu-El Conservative Synagogue in Myrtle Beach, according...

CHARLOTTE, NC — A newspaper carrier was found dead in the road and a second person was reportedly found wounded early Wednesday in a typically peaceful part of uptown near popular Romare Bearden Park. Police are focusing their investigation on the 300 block of West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The man found dead was identified as Walter “Wes” Scott Jr., 65. He lived in Lancaster County, S.C., south of Charlotte. Scott worked delivering newspapers in uptown for more than 40 years. He was under contract with a company that is also under contract to deliver The Charlotte Observer in...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have charged a man in connection with the killing of a newspaper carrier in uptown Charlotte Wednesday. Roger Best, 22, is accused in the murder of Walter “Wes” Scott Jr., 65, who was shot Wednesday at 2:20 a.m. while delivering newspapers to a convenience store near Romare Bearden Park. Investigators believe he was killed during an attempted robbery. The suspect is charged with murder, attempted armed robbery, and possession of a firearm by a felon. Police said he was shot during the encounter with Scott and is being treated for gunshot wounds at Carolinas Medical Center. Once released,...

Gillian Christensen, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, confirmed that agents this week had raided homes and workplaces in Atlanta, the Los Angeles area and two other cities that she declined to identify, as part of “routine” immigration enforcement actions. ICE does not use the term raids. But immigration activists said Friday that they had documented ICE raids of unusual intensity in the past 48 hours in Vista, Pomona and Compton, Calif.; Austin, Dallas, and Pflugerville, Texas; Alexandria and Annandale, Va.; Charlotte and Burlington, N.C.; Plant City, Fla.; the Hudson Valley region of New York;...

FULL TITLE: North Carolina mother catches daycare worker breastfeeding her three-month-old son on surveillance video A North Carolina mother says surveillance video at the day care where she works caught another worker breastfeeding her three-month-old son without permission. Kaycee Oxendine works at the Carrboro Early School, located about 30 miles outside of Durham, as a pre-kindergarten teacher. On Friday, Oxendine said her son's teacher told her he was constipated. Another woman working in the nursery that day asked Oxendine if she could breastfeed the little boy to see if that would help with the constipation, according to ABC 11. But...

SPRING LAKE, NC -- A North Carolina sheriff's office says a man was shot during an argument over bright car headlights. Investigators said the victim was headed down a North Carolina highway on Saturday evening when he met an oncoming vehicle with its bright lights on. The victim flashed his lights in an attempt to get the oncoming driver to dim the bright lights.

Police in North Carolina have arrested four women and charged them with painting anti-Trump graffiti. Local media outlets reported a number of businesses and one police car were painted Jan. 21 in the town of Boone. Police said the women were arrested late last week and charged with seven counts of misdemeanor graffiti and one count of damaging personal property....

FULL TITLE: 'Drop the gun!': Police release harrowing footage of cops shooting and killing an 18-year-old suspect just moments after he opened fire on a bus and drew his weapon at the officers Police in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday released hours of footage related to the fatal police shooting of an armed suspect, under the first test of a state law expected to make such releases more routine. The harrowing encounter took place in June of 2016, as police were searching for a suspect in a gang-rivalry shooting on a public bus. Shot dead was 18-year-old Rodney Rodriguez Smith....

CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. A woman narrowly avoided a carjacking after stopping to help what she thought was a child in the middle of the road Sunday night. It turned out the child was actually a dummy. The 33-year-old woman was driving home from work when she noticed what looked like a child sitting in the middle of the road at the intersection of West Southwinds Drive and Pagoda Court in the Paradise East subdivision, according to the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office. As she stopped, two young men wearing dark hoodies pulled on the door handles of the woman’s locked vehicle,...

My name is Elliott G. Holliday. I am a Physics major minoring in Mathematics at NC State University from Durham, NC and I am 20 years old. I am a College of Sciences Ambassador with a strong moral compass pointed towards selflessness and community service. I am a powerful African American man with the hopes of obtaining my PhD in a field of quantum physics, then pursing a career in research, renewable energy, and/or scientific outreach. I graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in 2014, the 12th best high school in the nation while making lifelong...

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — From a perch on Main Street, the hometown of actor Andy Griffith looks this day like it was plucked right out of the television show that bears his name. And it was. Residents and tourists from farflung states mill along the thoroughfare, past the quaint low-slung shops made of Mount Airy's famous white granite and named, like Floyd's City Barber Shop, for references in "The Andy Griffith Show," the folksy comedy set in the idyllic fictional small town of Mayberry that first aired in 1960. And yet even as this city of about 10,000 nestled in...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Justin G. Liverman, 24, of Morehead City, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today for his role in a harassment scheme that targeted senior U.S. government officials. Liverman’s plea admits guilt to a conspiracy to commit unauthorized computer intrusions, identity theft, and telephone harassment. According to the statement of facts filed with the plea agreement, beginning in November 2015, Liverman conspired to attempt to intimidate and harass U.S. officials and their families by gaining unauthorized access to victims’ online accounts, among other things. For example, Liverman publicly posted online documents and personal information unlawfully obtained from a victim’s personal...

Dear Professor Meinhold, Members of the Faculty Senate Steering Committee: It has been several weeks since I published my column “My Faculty Values and Your White Privilege” on Townhall.com. In that column, which I have linked here, I warned you about the dangers of a resolution you passed condemning faculty members for publicly commenting on the demographic characteristics of students. I specifically enumerated five problems with your statement, which was an overreaction to a free speech controversy involving a faculty member (yours truly). The problems I enumerated demonstrated that your committee did not think matters through before passing the emotionally...

A taxpayer-funded political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has concluded that political conditions in North Carolina are comparable to political conditions in totalitarian nations such as Cuba, Venezuela and Iran because Republicans are too politically successful. The professor, Andrew Reynolds, aired his 936-word grievance last week in The News & Observer, a newspaper out of Raleigh. North Carolina “can no longer be classified as a full democracy,” Reynolds declares, because the statewide Republican Party has been too successful at winning the state’s winner-take-all elections. The winner-take-all system — which is excessively common throughout the...