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Protecting the Pack: NC State cracks down on counterfeits amid Final Four Frenzy

"It's been a great story, it's been a great run, a lot of success," said Gregg Zarnstorff, director of Trademarks and Brand Protection at NC State University. "You know what happens with success is everybody wants to try to profit from it. Sometimes legally and sometimes not."

Brayden Marsh
Opinion

Flashback: North Carolina’s Easter Monday tradition forged on the baseball diamond

On Good Friday state offices will be closed in North Carolina for Holy Week, along with 10 other states. However, that has not always been the case in North Carolina. The Monday after Easter — rather than Good Friday — was a legal holiday in North Carolina for 52 years, and for many years before...

Dallas Woodhouse
Opinion

Greensboro should take 1% prepared-food tax off the menu

In her recent State of the City address for 2024, Mayor Nancy Vaughn of Greensboro put forward a bold proposal: a citywide 1% prepared-food tax. The rationale behind this initiative, according to Vaughn, is to inject much-needed revenue into the community, with estimates suggesting a minimum influx of $20 million. While on the surface, this...

Algenon Cash

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Another NC journalist who covered January 6 Capitol breach faces prosecution

North Carolina resident and independent journalist Steve Baker is facing four charges from federal prosecutors targeting him for covering the capitol breach on January 6, 2021. Baker has been assigned to Obama-appointed Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, DC.

Brianna Kraemer
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Tillis receives death threat related to bill banning TikTok

US Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, received a threatening voicemail from a caller who said she would “find him and shoot him and cut him into pieces” if he voted to ban the social media platform TikTok when a bill banning it comes up for a vote in the Senate. 

Theresa Opeka, Katherine Zehnder