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The North Carolina unemployment rate has risen to 5.5 percent in April from its previous standing at 5.4 percent in March. According to the state Commerce Department, this is the first time in 11 months that the state’s unemployment rate was higher than the national average. The national average unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 percent. […]
An accident involving a school bus and an SUV carrying students caused minor injuries this morning. The accident happened around 9am on South Smithfield Rd. at Meadow Run Rd.. Three children and two adults were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The SUV carrying students was flipped on its side while the bus had […]
School board members from Wake County are considering adding “sexual orientation” to the district’s discrimination policy. Sexual orientation is already included in the district’s bullying and harassment policies. The current policy prohibits discrimination based on a variety of factors, including race, religion and disability. Most of Wake schools policies have already been altered to […]
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office began looking into the Freedom Christian Academy in March after a parent withdrew her children from the private school after discovering that Joan Dayton, the head of school knowingly allowed Conner to work there during the 2011-12 academic year Paul Conner, the convicted sex offender at the center of […]
North Carolina lawmakers are making sure that Duke University’s latest NCAA title doesn’t go unnoticed. Coach K and his Duke University basketball team will be returning to the North Carolina Legislative Building to be honored for their last national title win. A special joint session was scheduled by the House and Senate for Tuesday afternoon […]
WAKE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS Raleigh Convention Center Graduation Time High School Saturday, June 6, 2015 8:00 AM Green Hope Saturday, June 6, 2015 12:00 PM Athens Saturday, June 6, 2015 4:00 PM Wake Forest Saturday, June 6, 2015 8:00 PM Wakefield Sunday, June 7, 2015 8:00 AM Enloe Sunday, June 7, […]
A Duke University political science professor, named Jerry Hough made what some are calling a controversial statement regarding an editorial in the New York Times. The editorial that sparked the comment was titled “How Racism Doomed Baltimore” and it focused on the idea that poverty and isolation of the African-American community in Baltimore were major […]
Earlier this month a federal judge ruled that Rowan County commissioners must stop opening their meetings with prayers that refers to Christianity the majority of the time. Since the Rowan County commissioners themselves delivered prayers before their meetings the U.S. District Judge James Beaty Jr. ruled that the commissioners violated the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition against […]
Officials from both Fayetteville and Cumberland County announced on Thursday that they were forming a partnership to get the areas homeless off of the streets. The concern regarding the increasing amount of homeless in the city has been on the hearts of officials for quite some time but they just weren’t sure how to […]
Parents of third grade students at Efland-Cheeks Elementary are upset over an uninformed lesson on homosexuality. The teacher, who is openly gay, read a book called King and King to his 3rd grade class. The book is about a prince who defies his mom and marries a man instead of a woman. The teacher […]
