Scotland County has struggled especially hard during these past few years of economic recession. June unemployment numbers show the county continues to shoulder the state’s highest unemployment rate. During July the rate came in at 17.6 percent. “It’s been kind of rough, we’ve been managing. I had been working for 20 some plus more years […]
First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to visit the University of North Carolina at Greensboro at 1pm today to drum up support for President Obama’s re-election bid. This is the first stop for the First Lady in Greensboro connected to her husband’s re-election bid. She was in Greensboro earlier this year to speak at NC […]
North Carolina was ranked the fourth best state in the United States for business in the categories of workfoce, business friendliness along with Technology and Innovations.
In the little college town of Louisburg, NC, more than 5 dozen contestants are ready to show their skills for the 39th annual “Parade of Puckerers.” The International Whistlers Convention runs April 18th – 22ns with contestants coming from 20 states and 9 countries. Competitors range from elementary school age to those in their 90’s. […]
In Gastonia, NC a school district forced a principal into retirement and issued an apology after 9-year-old Emanyea Lockett was suspended for calling his teacher “cute.”
The NAACP has recently started a campaign aimed at securing the nomination of a Black judge to a predominantly Black district in North Carolina. Leaders of the state chapter of the NAACP say that there has never been a Black federal judge in the Eastern or Western District court. Roughly half the state’s African-American population […]
President Obama landed in Asheville this morning with plans to speak to students at West Wilkes High School.
To most residents of Raleigh, it may not come as a surprise that their city earned the title of America’s Best City. Raleigh shows the cultural graces that go along with anchoring the so-called Research Triangle, home to North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among its […]
Hurricane Irene’s main thrust was still a day away from North Carolina but heightened waves began hitting the state’s Outer Banks and rain began falling in the southeastern part of the state Friday as the storm continued trudging toward the East Coast. National Weather Service meteorologist Rachel Zouzias said rain carried by Irene’s outer bands […]
The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center expects Irene to target the Southeast coast as a strengthening hurricane after emerging from the Bahamas on Thursday. The coastal communities at risk to serve as Irene’s landfall point later this week lie from Miami, Fla., to Morehead City, N.C. North Carolina Department of Transportation evacuation routes “A look at [latest […]
