North Carolina March Primary Results To Be Finalized
North Carolina election officials are ready to finalize March 15 primary election results a week before the next primary election is held.
The State Board of Elections scheduled a meeting Tuesday to certify the nominees for president, governor and other down-ballot races.
The five-member board will decide which provisional ballots cast in Durham County will count in light of discovered inconsistencies about their totals.
The board delayed certification while its staff directed reviews of provisional ballots in about 20 counties to ensure a new photo identification mandate and other voting laws were being implemented correctly.
Tropical Depression Bonnie Is No More
The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Depression Bonnie has dissipated.
Forecasters say the storm will continue as an area of low pressure could bring heavy rain, especially during daylight hours to South Carolina and North Carolina as it moves slowly northeast over the next few days.
Officials say heavy surf and dangerous rip currents will continue along the Southeastern coast.
Food Lion Co-Founder Ketner Dies At Age 95
Food Lion said in a news release that 95-year-old Ralph Ketner died Sunday.
Ketner successfully gambled that bigger sales by lowering prices to where profit margins were razor thin were the best path to success.
In 1957, he opened the Food Town grocery store in Salisbury with 125 investors putting up $50 or $100. The grocery store grew into the Food Lion chain with more than 1,100 stores across the Southeast. The original investment grew to more than $1 million for those small investors.
Shark Alert! Warnings High-Tech And Low-Tech Seek To Protect
Officials and researchers from Cape Cod to the Carolinas are looking at responses ranging from the high-tech to the decidedly low-tech as they deal with a growing great white shark population.
On Cape Cod, Massachusetts, new warning flags emblazoned with the silhouette of a great white are flying on lifeguard stands. Towns are also posting attention-grabbing billboards at beaches that advise visitors against swimming near the seals, which are the sharks favored delicacy.
In North Carolina, university researchers are testing shark-seeking drones in a scientific study that may one day give beach lifeguards a new eye-in-the-sky.
And a smartphone app is being launched by the Atlantic Great White Conservancy this July to let beachgoers across the Eastern Seaboard monitor the movements of tagged great whites and post their own possible shark sightings.
WFU Baseball Team Heads To NCAA Tourney
For the first time in nearly a decade, Wake Forest's baseball team will play in the NCAA Tournament. The Deacs are one of 10 teams from the A-C-C in this year's field of 64.
The NCAA unveiled this year's bracket for the 2016 Division One Baseball Tournament, and it was good news for Wake Forest.
After nine years without reaching the postseason, the Demon Deacons received an at-large bid after a 35-24 season.
Wake Forest will play as the three seed in the College Station regional, which is hosted by top seed and SEC Champion Texas A&M. Joining the Deacs in Texas are two seed Minnesota and four seed Binghamton.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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