Where is the state’s $5.4 billion in ARPA funding going?
To conclude its ARPA reporting project, CPP looks into how other ARPA funds, the $5.4 billion distributed directly to the state, is being spent. by Shelby Harris November 23, 2022 Carolina Public Press The Lake Lure dam on March 24. Lake Lure received $200,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding from the state to conduct […]
Thousands of veterans deluge VA with claims for toxic exposure benefits, health care
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is processing claims at the fastest rate in its history, hoping to avoid a significant backlog as hundreds of thousands of veterans apply for health care and benefits under the landmark toxic exposure law Congress passed earlier this year. The day after President Joe Biden signed the […]
State Historic Preservation Office Begins McDowell County Comprehensive Architectural Survey with Grant Funds from National Park Service
RALEIGH Nov 16, 2022 McDowell County has been chosen as the subject of a comprehensive survey of historic buildings and landscapes planned from 2022-24. Funding for this architectural survey comes from the Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund (ESHPF), administered by the National Park Service, for hurricanes Florence and Michael. Because the Federal Emergency Management Agency […]
Progress Continues on Effort to Revise NC School Grading Model
Raleigh, NC Nov 7, 2022 Progress continues for the advisory group of school leaders who convened again today for the third time to discuss revising the state’s unpopular A-F school performance grading model. During today’s meeting, members split into groups to consider alternative indicators, academic and non-academic, that could be included in a final model […]
State Board to Randomly Select Precincts for Post-Election Accuracy Checks
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2022 – 00:00 The State Board of Elections on Wednesday, November 9, will randomly select precincts, early voting sites, and absentee-by-mail ballots to be counted by hand as part of a statutorily required post-election audit. RALEIGH, NC The State Board of Elections on Wednesday, November 9, will randomly select precincts, early voting […]
North Carolina’s Passenger Rail Service Breaks Record for Ridership
Raleigh Governor Roy Cooper says more people rode the N.C. Department of Transportation’s intercity passenger rail service in September than any previous month in the 32-year history of the NC By Train service. The Carolinian and Piedmont trains handled 48,488 passengers last month, which marks an increase of 32% over the average pre-pandemic monthly ridership […]
State Awards $30M for Clean School Bus Replacements, Including 43 New Electric School Buses
Raleigh Oct 17, 2022 More than $30.1 million from the N.C. Volkswagen Settlement Program will be distributed by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to fund 161 new school buses across the state, with the majority of the funding going toward new all-electric school buses. The new zero-emission and low-emission school buses are replacing […]
Missing Juvenile: GRACIE ELAINE MULL
The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a missing juvenile: GRACIE ELAINE MULL. Gracie is a 17-year-old female that has blue eyes and brown/strawberry blonde hair. Gracie is 5’4″ tall and weighs 103 pounds. She was last seen wearing jeans with holes in them, a dark colored top and tennis […]
Two charged in overdose death
Investigators with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office have charged two people in connection to an overdose death in Rutherford County. On March 21st 2022, Deputies were called to a residence in Ellenboro for what appeared to be an overdose death. Amanda Lee Nash, 27 was found deceased in the residence. A long term investigation was […]
Plea in Officer Assault/Shooting Incident August 2021
On Thursday, October 13, 2022, a Forest City man, Akeil Kelis Omar Franklin, who was charged with shooting Senior Police Officer Hill and firing upon two other Forest City Police Officers in August of 2021, had a hearing in Rutherford County Superior Court. During the hearing with Superior Court Judge T. Davis, Franklin accepted a […]
