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It could be more than a year before the National Transportation Safety Board completes its final report of the Jan. 7 plane crash that killed two Edenton men.
The recent emergence of artificial intelligence programs that can write essays automatically poses a new and unique challenge for educators, area school leaders say.
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Food Bank of the Albemarle wants to establish a client choice food pantry as part of a “community hub” in the city-owned Hugh Cale Community Center off South Road Street.
Live music lovers will have no fewer than nine downtown venues to choose from at February’s First Friday ArtWalk on Friday.
CURRITUCK — A chance encounter with the chief deputy of the Currituck Sheriff’s Office led to the arrest Tuesday morning of an “armed and dangerous” man who had eluded capture for nearly a day.
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I am not normally a fan of writing about a topic that everyone else is discussing in sports however, it seems unavoidable as it regards the Super Bowl.
HAMPTON, Va. — Northeastern Coastal Conference indoor track and field teams competed in the conference championship meet in Hampton’s Boo Williams Sportsplex on Tuesday.
Last time the Northeastern and Camden boys’ basketball teams met, the Eagles had to work back from a double-digit halftime deficit to get the win.
Philadelphia Eagles fans would be perfectly satisfied if the end of the Super Bowl next week plays out like the championship game of 63 years ago.
In a rematch of last year’s CIAA championship game, the Elizabeth City State women’s basketball team defeated first-place Lincoln (Pa.) handily at home Saturday 69-49.
The Northeastern girls’ basketball team kept their undefeated season rolling on Friday night at home.
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Claude Milot’s column, “Clowns on climate, reparations supply plenty of laughs” in your Jan. 27 edition states, “...in California where legislators proposed to give every Black man, woman and child in the state a tidy sum of $5 million in reparations....” This is not correct.
Are North Carolina policymakers thinking big enough about the future of post-secondary education and training? I’m not convinced they are.
“We have no choice but to make hard decisions,” Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern recently said. He leads the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 160 Republican lawmakers that recently called for making cuts in Social Security.
January was yet another warm month in North Carolina and across much of the rest of the nation. After a brief and sharp holiday week plunge, temperatures have consistently felt more like mid-March — or, at least, what mid-March used to feel like.
No decent citizen could fail to be appalled by the video, released Friday, showing Memphis police officers beating a 29-year-old Black man, Tyre Nichols, so badly on Jan. 7 that he died three days later. No feeling citizen could fail to be moved by the anguish of his mother, RowVaughn Wells, as she eloquently described her grief at losing a young man, himself the father of a 4-year-old, who cried out for “mom” as he absorbed the assault. And no concerned citizen can fail to be impressed by, and appreciative of, the way in which those who justifiably protested Nichols’s death heeded — with sporadic exceptions — Wells’s call for nonviolence.
Every citizen in the 1st District needs to call U.S. Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., and demand that he vote to pass HR 25, the “Fair Tax Act of 2023.”
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Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.
In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus reminds us to store up treasure in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves cannot break in and steal. Matthew 6:19-21 reminds us that where you keep your treasure, there also will be the desires of your heart.
Jesus was tempted in all the ways that we are. The writer of Hebrews says that this is why we can know that we have a sympathetic High Priest. Not only will He serve us as priests do, but He understands our plight now.
So you may have seen or heard that country star Chris Stapleton will be singing the national anthem at Super Bowl LVII.
Museum of the Albemarle, Elizabeth City State University, and the Pasquotank County Library have been hard at work planning a number of educational events for Black History Month 2023.
Tiana Cortazzo likes to stay busy. Which is good, because she stays pretty busy.
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Some North Carolina senators want tougher punishments for intentionally damaging utility equipment in light of the December attacks on two Duke Energy substations in Moore County that left 45,000 customers without power. The legislators filed a bill on Wednesday that would make it a high-grade felony to intentionally destroy or damage any “energy facility.” Current state law only makes it a misdemeanor to vandalize equipment that interrupts the transmission of electricity. A perpetrator also would face a $250,000 fine and potential lawsuits. Someone also fired at an electric cooperative's substation in Randolph County two weeks ago, causing damages but no outages. No arrests have been in either attack.
A bill advancing in North Carolina’s Senate would prohibit instruction about sexuality and gender identity in K-4 public school classes. The proposal approved Wednesday by the Senate education committee would require schools in most circumstances to alert parents prior to a change in the name or pronoun used for their child. The measure defies the recommendations of parents, educators and LGBTQ youths who testified against it. The bill now heads to the Senate health care committee. A version passed the state Senate last year but did not get a vote in the House.
North Carolina civil rights advocates have denounced a House rule change that could allow Republicans to override vetoes on contentious bills with little notice, saying it subverts democracy and the will of voters. Republicans pushed through temporary operating rules this month that omitted a longstanding requirement that chamber leaders give at least two days’ notice before holding an override vote. The move could allow Republicans to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes while Democrats are absent, even momentarily. Calling the change “a shameful power grab meant to thwart the will of the people,” Jillian Riley of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic said it undermines the functionality of the General Assembly.
As mass shootings are again drawing public attention, states across the U.S. seem to be deepening their political divide on gun policies. A series of recent mass shootings in California come after a third straight year in which U.S. states recorded more than 600 mass shootings involving at least four deaths or injuries. Democratic-led states that already have restrictive gun laws have responded to home-state tragedies by enacting or proposing even more limits on guns. Many states with Republican-led legislatures appear unlikely to adopt any new gun policies after last year's local mass shootings. They're pinning the problem on violent individuals, not their weapons.
The families of five passengers killed in a plane crash off the North Carolina coast have settled wrongful death lawsuits for $15 million. Their attorneys told the court the companies that owned the plane and employed the pilot paid the money. The suits claimed the pilot failed to properly fly the single-engine plane in weather conditions with limited visibility. All eight people aboard died off the Outer Banks. The passengers included four teenagers and two adults, returning from a hunting trip. The founder of the company that owned the plane was killed, and his family wasn't involved in the lawsuits.
A man who caused evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police on Capitol Hill when he claimed he had a bomb in his pickup truck outside the Library of Congress has pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening to use an explosive. Floyd Ray Roseberry, of Grover, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to the felony charge in Washington federal court. He faces up to 10 years behind bars and is scheduled to be sentenced in June. An email seeking comment was sent to his attorney on Friday. Roseberry drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress in August 2021 and began shouting to people in the street that he had a bomb.
North Carolina Democrats have introduced legislation to codify abortion protections into state law as Republicans are discussing early prospects for further restrictions. Their legislation, filed Wednesday in both chambers, would prohibit the state from imposing barriers that might restrict a patient’s ability to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability, which typically falls between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. Current state law bans nearly all abortions after 20 weeks, with narrow exceptions for urgent medical emergencies that do not include rape or incest. House Speaker Tim Moore told reporters he didn’t expect the Democrats’ bill to get considered.
Supporters of abortion rights have filed separate lawsuits challenging abortion pill restrictions in North Carolina and West Virginia. The lawsuits were filed Wednesday. They are the opening salvo in what’s expected to a be a protracted legal battle over access to the medications. The lawsuits argue that state limits on the drugs run afoul of the federal authority of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency has approved the abortion pill as a safe and effective method for ending pregnancy. More than half of U.S. abortions are now done with pills rather than surgery.
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Top European Union officials have arrived in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian officials. Thursday's visit came as rescue crews dug through the rubble of an apartment building in eastern Ukraine struck by a Russian missile. The strike killed at least three people and wounding about 20 others. The scene of devastation in the eastern Donetsk provincial city of Kramatorsk served as a grim reminder of the war’s toll almost a year after Russia invaded its neighbor. Emergency workers spent the night searching for survivors after the missile hit late Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due to meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Thursday.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is marking 100 days in office. That's more than twice the number of ill-fated predecessor Liz Truss. But the leader who calmed financial markets after Truss' disastrous economic plans now faces a host of challenges. They include double-digit inflation, strikes by public sector workers and ethics scandals in the governing Conservative Party. Sunak said this week that voters could “hold me to account" for "things that arise on my watch.” But analysts say it may be too late for the Tories to avoid defeat in the next national election because the Conservatives trail far behind the Labour Party in opinion polls. Sunak marks 100 days as prime minister on Thursday.
Global stock markets and Wall Street futures are higher after the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy is moving toward lower inflation but more interest rate hikes are planned. London and Frankfurt opened higher. Shanghai and Tokyo advanced. Oil prices rose. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index rose after the Fed increased its key lending rate by a smaller margin than previous hikes. Chair Jerome Powell said the “disinflationary process has started” but “ongoing increases” in rates will be needed. Traders hope central banks will scale back plans for more interest rate hikes as inflation eases. Some expect a U.S. cut before 2024, though Powell said he anticipates none this year.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Embattled Indian billionaire Gautam Adani said Thursday his conglomerate will review its plans for raising capital after calling off his flagship company’s $2.5 billion share offering following the loss of tens of billions of dollars in market value due to claims of fraud by…
TOKYO (AP) — Sony appointed a veteran executive as its president Thursday to lead the Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate through changing times, and reported a decline in its profit in the last quarter.
The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates by as much as half a percentage point. That would outpace the latest hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The move on Thursday comes as the central bank seeks to tame decades-high inflation that has driven a cost-of-living crisis and predictions of recession. Economists suggest it may be the last big rate increase for the central bank. It has approved 10 consecutive hikes since the reopening of the world economy after the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine pushed U.K. inflation to 40-year highs. High food and energy prices have lead to the U.K.’s biggest drop in living standards since the 1950s. The situation has triggered a wave of strikes.
Embattled Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has called off his flagship company’s sale of $2.5 billion shares. The decision late Wednesday followed the loss of billions of dollars in market value in the sprawling conglomerate after a U.S.-based short-selling firm, Hindenburg Research, accused the Adani Group of “brazen” stock market manipulation and accounting fraud, among other financial abuses. The Adani Group said in a statement that it wasn't going ahead with the share sale because of a volatile market and an “unprecedented situation." The Adani Group said it will return the proceeds from the offering, which was sold out as of Tuesday. Hindenburg has a track record of sending stock prices of its targets tumbling.
Police converged in force on the tiny, unincorporated community of Wolf Creek in southwest Oregon the night of Jan. 26 as they hunted for a suspect who was wanted for kidnapping and torturing a woman nearly to death. Five days later, Benjamin Obadiah Foster was dead, finally located by police hiding in the crawlspace of a house in nearby Grants Pass. It was the same home where his victim had been found unconscious and bound a week earlier. But police said Wednesday that in the interim, Foster entered another home and killed two strangers.
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