Author: Emery P. Dalesio
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N. Carolina elections head says ballots handled illegally
RALEIGH, N.C. • A Republican operative, who last year rounded up votes for a GOP candidate running for Congress, conducted an illegal and well-funded ballot-harvesting operation, North Carolina’s elections director said Monday. The director’s testimony came on the first day of a hearing into whether mail-in ballots were tampered with a in race for the…
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Marine drill instructor gets 10 years for abusing recruits
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Marine Corps drill instructor was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for choking, punching or otherwise tormenting recruits, especially three Muslims — one of whom ultimately killed himself by leaping down a stairwell. A military jury handed out the punishment to Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix a day after convicting him…
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North Carolina rolls back ‘bathroom bill’ despite criticism
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina rolled back its “bathroom bill” Thursday in a bid to end the yearlong backlash over transgender rights that has cost the state dearly in business projects, conventions and basketball tournaments. The compromise plan, announced Wednesday night by the Democratic governor and leaders of the Republican-controlled legislature, was worked out under…
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AP Exclusive: ‘Bathroom bill’ to cost North Carolina $3.76B
RALEIGH, N.C. — Despite Republican assurances that North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” isn’t hurting the economy, the law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3.76 billion in lost business over a dozen years, according to an Associated Press analysis. Over the past year, North Carolina has suffered financial hits ranging from scuttled plans…
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US utilities seek sun as Trump sides with coal, fossil fuels
RALEIGH, N.C. — The plunging cost of solar power is leading U.S. electric companies to capture more of the sun just when President Donald Trump is moving to boost coal and other fossil fuels. Solar power represents just about 1 percent of the electricity U.S. utilities generate today, but that could grow substantially as major…
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In bitter divide, repeal of North Carolina LGBT law fails
RALEIGH, N.C. — Amid deepening acrimony, a supposedly bipartisan deal to kill the North Carolina law known as the “bathroom bill” fell apart Wednesday night, ensuring the likelihood that global corporations and national sports events will continue to stay away from the state. The law limits protections for LGBT people and was best known for…
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Two Navy jets collide; Coast Guard recovers 4 survivors
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save RALEIGH, N.C. — Two Navy jet fighters crashed off the coast of North Carolina during a training mission Thursday, and their four crew members were airlifted to a hospital with minor injuries after being plucked…
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Duke Energy signs deal to turn pig poop into electricity
RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke Energy Corp. said Monday it is expanding its renewable energy from livestock waste, adding poop power to investments the country’s largest electric company has made in whirring wind turbines and acres of solar arrays. The Charlotte-based utility said it contracted with Carbon Cycle Energy, which will build and own a North…
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Slaughterhouse to decide on union
RALEIGH, N.C. • A noisy and often caustic 16-year effort to unionize the world’s largest hog slaughterhouse – a journey that’s included disputed elections, immigration raids and venomous allegations of company intimidation and union racketeering – is quietly headed toward an end. About 4,600 workers at Smithfield Foods Inc.’s slaughterhouse in the tiny town of…