According to Columbia S.C. police a man kidnapped and killed a University of South Carolina female student who mistakenly got into the man’s car thinking it was her Uber ride. Saturday night Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook announced that 24-year-old Nathaniel David Rowland is charged with murder in the death of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson. Holbrook […]
The story of Charlotte, N.C. native, 21-year-old Taemon Blair who was found hanged in the tractor-trailer he had been driving for his job has taken social media by storm. However, after his death was ruled a suicide his family members are calling for police to continue investigating his death. According to the Allen County Coroner’s Office […]
On Friday, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore invited President Donald Trump to give his usually annual (but this year POSSIBLY-canceled) State of the Union address in Raleigh. WRAL News reports, the speaker’s office confirmed that Moore, R-Cleveland, wrote to Trump two days after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Trump to cancel his address to Congress because of […]
Early Saturday, a partial federal shutdown took hold after Democrats refused to meet President Donald Trump’s demands for $5 billion to start erecting his Mexican border wall. Mulvaney sent agency heads a memorandum late Friday, telling them to “execute plans for an orderly shutdown.” According to WRAL news, he wrote that administration officials were “hopeful that […]
Alan Maloney, a veteran high school wrestling referee, in New Jersey forced a student-athlete to cut off his dreadlocks before a match Wednesday or be faced with forfeit. The wrestler, Andrew Johnson of Buena High School, had already wrestled twice this season with his hair covered. It is similar to what other wrestlers with long […]
Christmas is just four days away, so that means holiday travel is shifting into overdrive with air travel at Raleigh-Durham International Airport expected to soar. The line to clear security snaked through the terminal and curved around to the terminal doors, as early as Friday morning. Traveling passengers are advised by airlines to arrive at […]
Once the presents have been opened next week, it seems like a waste to just toss out your Christmas tree. However, Wake County residents can recycle their Christmas trees to help improve local parks. The Happy Trails Christmas Tree Recycling Program allows Wake County residents to turn their Christmas trees into mulch that will be […]
Following Monday’s 12-9 defeat to the New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid was randomly selected for a drug test. However according to Reid, this is the seventh time he has been tested despite appearing in just 11 games for the Panthers this season. As Reid went unsigned to open the 2018 season, some (including Reid himself) thought his inability […]
According to authorities, around 1:26 a.m. Tuesday a Christmas tree caught fire in a Durham townhouse. The Durham fire department was dispatched to 2106 Front Street, due to the Christmas tree causing heavy fire damage to both floors of the two-story townhouse and to the attic. WRAL reports that the residents said the Christmas tree was […]
Cam Newton’s sore right shoulder has bothered quarterback for the past two months and this might have cost the Carolina Panthers their last chance to remain in playoff contention. Newton’s interception late in the first half of Monday night’s 12-9 loss to the New Orleans Saints said it all. The 2015 NFL MVP blew an opportunity to pad a 7-6 lead […]