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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. -
The spill was discovered just before noon and poured directly into stormwater systems that feed into tributaries of Grindle Creek. -
As Charlotte weighs a 9 p.m. youth curfew, police, researchers and teenagers disagree over what is driving teen takeovers and what it will take to keep them from turning violent. -
The South Atlantic Red Snapper Fair Access Act, would fix what local fishermen call a broken system. Right now, North Carolina recreational anglers are locked into tiny, one- or two-day seasons, while commercial harvesting continues for months. -
The latest Economist-YouGov poll shows first-term Democratic Governor Josh Stein holding steady with a solid 44 percent approval rating back home. Only 27 percent disapprove. The political outlook gets much darker at the federal level. Nationally, President Donald Trump’s job approval has fallen to 36 percent, with 60 percent of Americans disapproving. -
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley campaigned in Gastonia Thursday, and in 25 minutes of prepared remarks, he mentioned President Trump only twice. -
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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