Bryan Anderson, AP – North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services said on Friday that the state has seen 1,280 of its coronavirus vaccine doses get discarded.

Nicholas Wu, Christal Hayes, Rachael Riley – Fayetteville Observer – The Senate on Friday confirmed Lloyd Austin as the nation’s first Black defense secretary, the second nominee of President Joe …
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Joe Marusak and David T. Foster III, Charlotte Observer – Tamara Schaeffer never bought a firearm before stepping inside Hyatt Gun Shop on Wilkinson Boulevard on Thursday. Three homicides in …
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Gary D. Robertson, AP — Prominent North Carolina medical, business and nonprofit leaders and state legislators assembled by Gov. Roy Cooper backed several aspirational goals Friday to improve health care …
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WRAL – Durham County sheriff’s deputies found and arrested one of the county’s “most wanted” criminals on Thursday. Jerry Lamont Harris Jr. is one of three people charged in connection …
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Emily Featherston, WECT – After more than a year and a half of meetings, public forums and discussion, the sale of Southeastern North Carolina’s largest employer and healthcare provider has …
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Anna Johnson, News & Observer – The Knightdale Town Council has appointed council member Jessica Day as the town’s new mayor. Day, who was elected to the council in 2019, …
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AP — The U.S. Marshals Service has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrests of two suspects accused of fatally shooting a North Carolina woman last week.

Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer – A crack in the wall of a pipeline caused nearly 1.2 million gallons of gasoline to spill in Mecklenburg County’s Oehler Nature Preserve near Huntersville’s …
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Kristen Johnson, The Fayetteville Observer – The N.C. Division of Air Quality granted Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy one of the permits they need to move forward in completing a …
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