Category Archives: State/Regional
Survive or collapse: Small businesses in North Carolina struggle after Hurricane Helene
Story by Noelle Harff via UNC Media Hub Photos by Chrissy Wang MARION, North Carolina - When Hurricane Helene tore through the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Pat and Charlie Gowan didn't thin...
Nov 02, 2024
Rescuers find body of worker swept away from Tennessee factory by Hurricane Helene flood
ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) - Rescue workers in Tennessee said Friday they have recovered the body of the final person still missing after massive flooding from Hurricane Helene hit a plastics factory there. Ro...
Nov 01, 2024
Georgia officials agree to spend $100 million on Hurricane Helene aid for farms and forestry
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's state government is diverting $100 million to spend on loans to farmers and cleanup after Hurricane Helene. The Georgia State Financing and Invest...
Nov 01, 2024
Embattled Republican candidate fights on in North Carolina governor's race
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press ELLERBE, N.C. (AP) - Addressing over 100 supporters outside an ice cream stand that's shaped like a giant strawberry, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robi...
Nov 01, 2024
North Carolina's historically Black colleges are mobilizing for Nov. 5, tapping an activist history
By AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Strewn across the coastal plains and backroads of North Carolina lie institutions that could be pivotal in the battleground state in Tuesda...
Oct 30, 2024
2 US House members seek to become North Carolina's attorney general
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's next attorney general will be one of two outgoing members of Congress who have represented the Charlotte area on Capitol Hil...
Oct 27, 2024
Georgia prosecutor who brought election case against Trump faces rare Republican challenger
ATLANTA (AP) - The Democratic Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election faces a rare Republican challenger in...
Oct 27, 2024
Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart, researchers find
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government's ...
Oct 24, 2024
Donald Trump tells supporters to 'just vote' at lively Georgia rally organized by Charlie Kirk
By BILL BARROW and JILL COLVIN Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - Donald Trump pushed supporters at a lively rally Wednesday in Georgia to vote for him - with an early ballot or in-person on Election...
Oct 23, 2024
FACT FOCUS: A look at the false information around Hurricanes Helene and Milton
By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated PressBack-to-back hurricanes that brought death and devastation to parts of the South were made worse by a wide range of false and misleading information, some of which st...
Oct 13, 2024