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RALEIGH – In North Carolina, a 6-year-old can no longer be seen in juvenile court for grabbing a candy bar from a checkout aisle or for running away from home. A new law that takes effect today raises the lower age of juvenile jurisdiction from 6 to 10 for most youth and will provide alternatives to taking a vulnerable juvenile to court. Thanks to recommendations from the Juvenile Jurisdiction Advisory Committee

President Biden would have us believe all is well. In fact, he just told Al Roker that “America is back.” But what does “back” mean to him, back to leading from behind? Maybe he meant back to more mandates, lockdowns ,and restrictions. Biden continues to try to paint a rosy picture about the economy, the border, and international affairs when in fact, the rhetoric does not match the terrible reality.

By CHRIS PIZZELLO, STEFANIE DAZIO and ANDREW DALTON FILE - Jacqueline Avant, left, and Clarence Avant appear at the 11th Annual AAFCA Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2020. Jacqueline Avant was fatally shot early Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Mark Von Holden Invision/AP, File) Jacqueline Avant, a Los Angeles philanthropist and the wife of legendary music executive Clarence Avant, was fatally shot at

Three people were shot and wounded Friday during an apparent fight between two groups at a North Carolina mall crowded with shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving, the police chief said. Authorities said in the late afternoon that one person was detained and there was no further threat to the public. Durham Police Chief Patrice Andrews told reporters the shooting happened around 3:20 p.m. inside The Streets at Southpoint mall

Have you recently turned on the TV, read an article, or listened to a radio show where an economist was talking about inflation, reconciliation, GDP, or stagflation? In other words, just a lot of economic analysis that is hard to understand. I certainly have and have found myself wanting to say, “just tell me how this will impact my family right now!” This economy is not working for most Americans,

Betesha Ethridge- #BankWithBea Hello friends! I wanted to continue our conversation regarding scams. I have heard of and witnessed so many people falling victim to scammers on the phone and on the internet lately. It doesn’t only happen during certain seasons of the year. It happens every day! According to Truecaller, roughly 59.4 million Americans have lost money to phone scams over the past year. Close to 19% fell victim more than once. Consumers lost

By Michael Dermer, CEO of The Lonely Entrepreneur and Founder of The Black Entrepreneur Initiative If we were to ask ourselves on the eve of giving Tuesday, “what one philanthropic vehicle has the opportunity to have an impact on every community, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, minority, geography, age, political persuasion and identity, what would the answer be? Entrepreneurship. Making an impact means different things to different people.  But is there

By RUSS BYNUM Attorneys were scheduled to give closing arguments Monday in the murder trial of three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, whose death became part of a broader reckoning on racial injustice in the criminal legal system. Prosecutors and defense attorneys were expected to spend hours making their final cases to the disproportionately white jury. The jurors heard 10 days of trial testimony that concluded last week, not long after the man who

By SCOTT BAUER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Toppled chairs line W. Main St. in downtown Waukesha, Wis., after an SUV drove into a parade of Christmas marchers Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP) WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas

There is a familiar campaign slogan that talked about making America great again. Now, Americans can look to a specific time when the American economy was great: that was when we had a Republican president in the White House working in a bipartisan manner to create an inclusive economy for all. President Biden continues to push his “Build Back Better” plan as if it is the vaccine to the economic