The main stories we’re following this morning on Public Radio East:
- State lawmakers plan to hold votes Thursday and Friday on a long-delayed $30 billion budget – without a controversial casino proposal that had stalled negotiations.
- High Point city council approved adopting a reparations report that outlines policies to address past racial discrimination.
- A man arrested after a weekend police chase and motorcycle crash in Georgia turned out to be fugitive accused of avoiding a child rape charge in North Carolina by faking his own drowning death last month in a Mississippi River kayaking accident.
- Applicants are needed for a commissioned contractor to operate a license plate agency in Greenville.
- The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission will hold a specially called meeting on Thursday in New Bern.
- Jones County is currently looking for two more volunteers for its Nursing Home Committee.
- Cape Lookout National Seashore will host a beach cleanup on Shackleford Banks on Saturday, picking up marine debris to preserve the environment for the wild horses.
- An eastern North Carolina Coast Guard crew recently helped improve the environment for marine life off the coast.
- The family of a 14-year-old girl who allegedly discovered an iPhone taped to the back of a toilet seat on a recent flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Boston said they believe she was targeted by a member of the crew.
