Triangle and Local News
By Mike Raley Our friend Rufus delights in discussing his love for Rhododendrons. Rufus, after all, is a learned man with deep North Carolina mountain roots and the rhododendron is a fixture on the sides…
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More North Carolina residents turned out to cast ballots on the first day of early voting this year than in 2020, even as residents from the mountainous…
By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Turnout for early in-person voting started strong Thursday in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but…
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN on Tuesday over its recent report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s…
LAKE LURE, N.C. (AP) — A man accused of making a threat that sparked a temporary shift in some western North Carolina disaster recovery operations said he believed social media reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency…
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN on Tuesday over its recent report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s…