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For more than thirty years, the federal government estimates that nearly one million military service personnel, their families, and civilian employees drank, cooked with, and bathed in water severely poisoned by industrial solvents at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Brian Amburgey formed the grassroots advocacy group Lejeune Veterans for Justice and is organizing a mass rally at the Lejeune Memorial Gardens in Jacksonville on August 19th.
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Internal federal documents reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to turn the shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton into a 1,400-bed detention center. The move would create one of the largest ICE hubs on the East Coast, sparking immediate protests from civil rights advocates. -
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The Lenoir County SPCA has officially declared a "Code Red," warning that it has completely run out of space for dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens. -
After a months-long national search, the North Carolina Board of Community Colleges chose Monty Sullivan to oversee the system’s 58 colleges serving 600,000 students.
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