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The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles has approved a woman's request for a specialty license plate to honor her wife after initially turning her down. The NCDMV initially rejected the request by Amy Bright of Greenville for a plate reading "LSBNSNLV," for "lesbians in love," saying it had the right to deny any license plate it deems "offensive to good taste and decency."
The Latest on a bid by Charlotte, North Carolina to host the Republican National Convention in 2020 : Several speakers have cited policies and statements of the Trump administration in asking the Charlotte, North Carolina, city council not to host the 2020 Republican National Convention. Local resident Ray McKinnon told the said President Barack Obama didn't speak about people the way this president does.
The U.S. Supreme Court voted last week to uphold most of North Carolina's newly drawn state legislative districts, marking the end of one of the state's gerrymandering lawsuits. The per curiam ruling ends a long-running battle over the 2011 state elections map-which was drawn by Republican lawmakers-and its court-ordered successor map.
A last-minute candidacy has the potential to dilute Republican votes this fall for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat and boost chances for the Democrats to expand their majority on the court. Raleigh attorney Chris Anglin filed on the last available day last week as a registered Republican to run for the seat held by another Republican, Associate Justice Barbara Jackson, who is seeking re-election.
North Carolina legislators will end their chief work session this year while likely finalizing a proposal for citizens to decide whether the state constitution should require photo identification to vote. The General Assembly scheduled one last work day Friday for a session that began six weeks ago.
A Swiss drone maker has moved its North American headquarters out of Washington, D.C., where security restrictions on flying drones have cramped the company's growth. The company has 15 employees and is looking for more.
"Clean energy should be a mainstream conservative issue," said Mark Flemming, CEO of Conservatives for Clean Energy. He made that statement during the Raleigh-based group's fourth annual polling luncheon last week.
Democrats hoped a Wisconsin case would be the vehicle the U.S. Supreme Court would use to strike down highly partisan gerrymandering of electoral maps. When those hopes fizzled Monday, attention turned to North Carolina.
The Latest on debate at the North Carolina General Assembly on efforts to alter the state's early in-person voting program : Alterations to North Carolina's early voting program by the Republican-controlled legislature are heading to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's desk. The Senate voted 23-11 on Friday for changes made public less than two days earlier in the House.
Winning several standing ovations, Vice President Mike Pence gave an often laudatory campaign-style speech Wednesday to the closing session of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, calling it "one of the greatest forces for good anywhere in America." Pence, an evangelical Christian, repeatedly made clear that the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. is viewed by him and President Trump as a vital part of their conservative base heading into the midterm elections.
Area Republican lawmakers say they support North Carolina having a constitutional amendment requiring photo identification in order to vote - a measure House Republicans have introduced less than two years after a federal court struck down a prior voter ID requirement as racially discriminatory. On Thursday, House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and GOP representatives introduced House Bill 1092, which would ask voters in November to vote on a constitutional amendment that "every person offering to vote in person shall present photo identification before voting in the manner prescribed by law."
The North Carolina Senate voted Thursday to override Governor Roy Cooper's veto of the state budget bill. The issue now goes to the House of Representatives.
Since taking his oath of office in 2009, N.C. Rep. Kelly Alexander, Jr. has filed a marijuana-related bill in the North Carolina General Assembly six times - and six times those bills have languished in committee, failing to make it to the House floor for a debate, much less a vote. That count includes Alexander's most recent bill, House Bill 994, bluntly titled "Reform Marijuana Laws," filed on May 23 during the General Assembly's short session.
An American who was held in a Venezuelan prison for nearly two years on weapons charges made it back to the U.S. Saturday evening where he was greeted by his family and President Trump. Josh Holt and his Venezuelan wife, Thamy, landed at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. There the couple and their daughter reunited with his family in a tearful meeting at the airport.
President Donald Trump told leaders of the world's top automakers on Friday that he wants to see more cars built in the United States as his administration weighs plans to reduce gas mileage and pollution requirements enacted during the Obama administration. Trump said in a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House that he intended to discuss environmental controls, fuel efficiency standards and the "manufacturing of millions of more cars within the United States, for Michigan, for Ohio, for Pennsylvania" and states like South Carolina and North Carolina.
The defeat of North Carolina incumbent U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger in his Republican primary could give Democrats a wider opening to win the seat and control the House. Pittenger became the first congressional incumbent to lose this year when the Rev.
This photo taken March 21, 2018, shows Rev. Mark Harris. The rematch of an extremely close 2016 North Carolina congressional primary may hinge as much on which Republican candidate more vigorously supports President Donald Trump as who more successfully mobilizes Christian conservatives.
More than three-quarters of the firearms used in New Jersey gun crimes this year were purchased in other states, according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Law and Public Safety. The report, covering the first three months of 2018, found that 77 percent of the 542 traceable guns originated outside New Jersey, in many cases in states with weaker gun laws.
U.S. House District 2, which includes Nash County, deserves more than a Washington politician out of touch with North Carolina, according to three Democratic candidates vying for victory in Tuesday's primary. Ken Romley, Linda Coleman and Wendy May are running to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. George Holding or his GOP primary challenger Allen Chesser.