Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper recently paid a visit to the Mary Washington Howe Pre-K Center in Wilmington to announce an $8 million funding initiative for preschools across North Carolina.
A federal judge has dismissed three separate lawsuits against North Carolina State University involving allegations of sexual abuse by the school's former sports medicine director. One of the suits can proceed only against the man accused of abuse.
In a narrow decision, the New Hanover County Board of Education voted 4-3 to temporarily limit access to the book “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.
Three years after government agencies shut down the nation in the COVID pandemic, examination of policy on reining in government overreach, protecting medical autonomy, and preserving our rights to earn a living are critical to preventing a liberty crisis in the future.
The state Supreme Court has denied two parents' request to take up their legal dispute against a Charlotte private school. The state’s highest court declined to jump into the case as it moves through the Court of Appeals.
An employee fired from the North Carolina Department of Transportation for improperly recertifying school bus drivers urges the full 15-member state Appeals Court to hear his lawsuit challenging the dismissal.
A former student challenging his expulsion from the University of North Carolina opposes the university’s request to have his federal lawsuit moved closer to the Chapel Hill campus. The student argues that UNC botched a sexual assault investigation against him.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board is suing major social media companies for contributing to a “mental health crisis” among American children. The board filed its 184-page complaint Thursday in US District Court for North Carolina’s Western District.
Within three days of this week’s state Appeals Court ruling against the Wilson County school board in a pension-spiking case, state lawyers have highlighted the ruling in two other outstanding cases involving Harnett and Union county schools.
Two parents argue a Charlotte private school “hatched a plan” to expel their children after the parents started asking questions about changes in the school’s operations. Parents Doug and Nicole Turpin make that claim in their latest filing at the NC Court of Appeals.
The Wilson County school board will have to contribute another $400,000 toward a former assistant superintendent’s retirement, based on a state Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday. It’s the latest legal battle over North Carolina’s 2014 pension-spiking law.
