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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Pending a legal review, the North Carolina State Board of Elections is suspending steps to allow voters to correct absentee ballots lacking the required witness signature by signing an affidavit.  In a memo sent to county elections officials on Thursday, the state board's executive director, Karen Brinson Bell, ordered them to hit the brakes on the plan.  “Absentee envelopes with a missing witness signature shall be kept in

CHARLOTTE – After careful consideration the Board of Directors for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), in conjunction with its Athletic Directors Association (ADA), has voted to delay the start of all winter sports seasons which includes men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, and women’s bowling. Men’s and women’s basketball will begin their seasons on January 9, 2021 while start dates for indoor track and field

As a young student, Hind Makki recalls, she would call out others at the Islamic school she attended when some casually used an Arabic word meaning “slaves” to refer to Black people.  “Maybe 85% of the time, the response that I would get from people ... is, ‘Oh, we don’t mean you, we mean the Americans,’” Makki said during a virtual panel discussion on race, one of many organized in

Kenneth Edmonds Today is a very sad day in the world of newspaper. Yesterday morning we learned that the long time publisher of Durham’s Carolina Times newspaper, Mr. Kenneth Edmonds, passed away. Edmonds was the grandson of the founder, Mr. Louis Austin. The Carolina Times has been a staple in the Black community in Durham for almost 100 years. This lost was unexpected and extremely devastating. Our love and prayers

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A white former Alabama police officer who killed an unarmed black man in 2016 was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison. A judge handed down the sentence to former Montgomery police officer Aaron Cody Smith, news outlets reported. Smith was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in November for the 2016 shooting death of Gregory Gunn, 58. Smith shot and killed Gunn after he fled