President Donald Trump will travel to North Carolina on Wednesday to campaign with Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley as the former national party chairman tries to shore up his campaign against Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper. The trip marks Trump’s first campaign rally since his unusual midterm convention in Dallas. The president, despite voter frustrations
BELHAVEN, N.C. — The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It’s an idyllic setting in North Carolina’s Inner Banks, where fields of cotton, soybeans and corn stretch
A South Carolina police officer died and a second was injured in a “gunfight” Saturday in a park that followed a call about a domestic dispute, Columbia police Chief W.H. “Skip” Holbrook said. The suspect, a 33-year-old man with a lengthy criminal record, also died, Holbrook said at a news conference in the capital city.
Miss North Carolina USA has been stripped of her title after a “thorough review” of information that surfaced, organisers of the event say. Pageant organiser A Blaize Productions did not share details, but stated that it had made the “difficult decision” to “conclude Brittany Boltinhouse’s reign” as Miss North Carolina USA. “The Miss USA organization
WASHINGTON– The US military on Tuesday identified a soldier who died while disarming an Iranian drone in Iraq as a 30-year-old man from North Carolina. The Army said it was investigating the death of Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton of Fayetteville during a controlled detonation Sunday at an air base in Irbil, northern Iraq. Swinton will
