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By Ms Jheri Worldwide Staff Writer The year was 1788, a new capital city was born in North Carolina: Raleigh. Uniquely, its location was selected with military strategy in mind - far from the vulnerable coast line. Raleigh blossomed in its early years, with the population soaring from under a thousand to over 2,600 between 1810 and 1820. The Civil War, largely spared the city from property destruction. Following the

By Ms Jheri Worldwide Staff Writer On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, Raleigh's business community gathered at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts for "Economic Forecast: Launch 2025," presented by Wells Fargo. the highly anticipated event drew a crowd eager for insights into the economic outlook for the coming year. Business leaders seeking a competitive edge in 2025 found what they were looking for: "Launch 2025" provided a comprehensive

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer In 2024, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris could have won the Electoral College by winning the states she carried, Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, plus the so-called Blue Wall battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. By 2032, that strategy would no longer work; given the shift of electoral votes to the South, even if a Democrat in 2032 were to carry the Blue Wall states

NC Newsline - Democracy advocates stood in front of the North Carolina Supreme Court from sunrise to sunset Tuesday reading the names of more than 60,000 voters whose ballots are being challenged by state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who has refused to concede despite falling 734 votes short of his opponent after a recount. The readers spoke the names aloud in shifts, county by county, beginning at 6 a.m.

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) - The sight of celebrity mansions and movie landmarks reduced to ashes can make it seem like the wildfires roaring through the Los Angeles area affected a constellation of movie stars. But a drive through the charred neighborhoods around Altadena shows that the fires also burned through a remarkable haven for generations of Black families avoiding discriminatory housing practices elsewhere. They have been communities of racial and

STATELINE.ORG - Blue states are bracing for a battle with the Trump administration over their authority to limit tailpipe emissions, a showdown that will have major repercussions on the types of cars and trucks sold to American drivers. All sides expect President-elect Donald Trump to try to revoke states' authority to adopt California's strict rules on the pollution spewed by vehicles. Many states' efforts to fight climate change hinge on

BY  MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) - The 13-year-old boy came to the clinic with a rapidly ballooning neck. Doctors were puzzled. Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they - and the boy - had been missing: iodine. A century ago, iodine deficiency affected kids across large swaths of the country. It essentially disappeared after some food makers started adding it to table salt, bread and

BY  ALEXANDRA OLSON NEW YORK (AP) - On the night Stephanie Cosme died, her sister and brother said they received a curt explanation from a U.S. Air Force official who met them at the hospital: The civilian contractor was failing to follow protocol when she was hit by an aircraft's rotating propeller and killed. The family would wait eight agonizing months to find out more about how the accident unfolded during

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- January is National Mentoring Month, the perfect opportunity for aspiring and established small business owners to connect with an experienced SCORE mentor to take their business to the next level. As the nation's largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, SCORE provides free, expert mentoring to entrepreneurs in all 50 states and U.S. territories and is dedicated to helping small businesses get off the

NEW YORK (AP) - As he approached his mid-90s, pioneering Black businessman George E. Johnson unexpectedly found himself determined - even called - to write his memoir. Johnson's "Afro Sheen: How I Revolutionized an Industry with the Golden Rule, from Soul Train to Wall Street" will be published Feb. 4 by Little, Brown and Company. The book's title is named for one of the most memorable consumer items his Johnson