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North Carolina 2-year-old puts dad’s unattended gun in his mouth and fires
A 2-year-old boy in North Carolina is expected to survive after shooting himself with his father’s gun over the weekend. Randolph County deputies said that the toddler found the handgun in his parents’ room at their home just outside Asheboro around 2 p.m. on Saturday. The boy put the gun…
Tesla vice president blasts North Carolina Republican’s attack on the free market
Diarmuid O’Connell, Tesla’s vice president for corporate and business development, on Wednesday slammed legislation in North Carolina that would prevent the sale of his company’s all-electric cars. “What’s happening here is the rules are being changed to protect the dealer model and exclude us from the market,” he said on…
North Carolina Republicans push through anti-renewable energy bill in ‘banana republic’ vote
Democrats in North Carolina say they could have defeated a bill to repeal renewable energy subsidies on Wednesday if Republicans had not pushed it through committee without counting the votes. The state Senate Finance Committee debated the bill to end the state’s 6-year-old renewable energy program for over 40 minutes…
17 arrested at NAACP ‘pray-in’ against North Carolina Republican agenda
Facing what they called an “avalanche” of right-wing legislation this session, 17 activists with the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NC-NAACP) gathered at the state assembly’s doors on Monday and joined hands in prayer, then refused to leave. The group, eight of…
North Carolina Republicans drop ‘state religion’ bill
North Carolina Republicans abandoned their attempt to establish Christianity as the official religion of the state on Thursday. According to Raleigh-Durham’s ABC Channel 11, Speaker of the House Thom Tillis’ office said that the bill was withdrawn and proceed no further in the legislative process. Tea Party-affiliated state Reps. Harry…
North Carolina bill allows ‘establishment of religion’ by state government
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have proposed a bill that they say would allow to the state to establish an official religion and defy the Constitution of the United States. Nine state House members joined with Republican state Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford of Rowan County to sponsor House…
North Carolina takes down Confederate Civil War battle flag after protest
NAACP opposition indicates sensitivity of Southern symbols as country continues to mark 150th anniversary of Civil War William Faulkner once noted that in regards to the American South’s awareness of its troubled history, “the past is never dead. It’s not even past”. That sentiment – coming from one of the…
North Carolina governor’s latest moves alienate Latino and LGBT communities
Members of both the LGBT and Latino communities in North Carolina were taken aback by recent decisions by Gov. Pat McCrory’s (R) that are seemingly hostile to them. McClatchy Newspapers reported on Friday that McCrory shuttered the state office for Latino affairs, saying through a spokesperson that his administration would…
Police: North Carolina man accidentially killed son while cleaning shotgun
A 10-year-old North Carolina boy was shot and killed on Sunday evening when his father’s shotgun discharged as he sat in his living room cleaning the weapon. The child, Christopher Stanlane, Jr., was hit by the round squarely in the head and killed instantly, police told a reporter for WPDE-TV.…
North Carolina teachers flock to free concealed carry class
Educators in North Carolina gathered at a gun range on Saturday to attend a free concealed carry class. So many teachers arrived for the class that the gun range was forced to turn many of them away, according to local news station WSOCTV. The Rowan County Wildlife Association hosted the…
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