Clinton, Trump Both Stumping In North Carolina On Monday
Both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are scheduled to speak this week in North Carolina.
Trump and running mate Mike Pence appear in Winston-Salem on Monday evening. Party officials say Gov. Pat McCrory and U.S. Sen. Richard Burr will also be on hand for that event.
Trump is scheduled to address a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Charlotte on Tuesday.
Clinton is scheduled to visit the VFW convention Monday.
National Investigators To Aid In Disappearance Of Boone Man
Officials say investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are assisting in the search for a college student who disappeared from a North Carolina mountain town in April.
The Boone Police Department said in a news release that the lead investigator on the case spent two days with investigators from the center. The release says the center investigators will assist with the technical aspects of the case involving the disappearance of James Martin Roberts.
Roberts was last seen in April near the Appalachian State University campus in Boone. He was a student at Caldwell Community College and was living in Boone.
Authorities say he left a letter in his room indicating that he was leaving everyone behind. He made no specific mention of harming himself.
North Carolina Headmaster Accused Of Embezzling $9M
Federal prosecutors say a former headmaster at a private school in suburban Charlotte is charged with wire fraud stemming from the embezzlement of nearly $9 million.
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Jill Westmoreland Rose says that 59-year-old Wayne Parker Jr., the former headmaster of Southlake Christian Academy in Huntersville, is charged.
Prosecutors allege that Parker, who resigned almost two years ago, used the money for such things as a million-dollar lake house, seats at Carolina Panthers games and luxury vehicles.
Surf Danger: Rip Currents Claim 2 Lives On Outer Banks
Authorities say two swimmers have died in as many days in rip currents at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Outer Banks parks superintendent David Hallac says a 71-year-old man died when he was caught in a rip current off the community of Frisco on Friday afternoon.
On Thursday, a 67-year-old male swimmer died when he and a younger man were swept away by a rip current off Ocracoke Island. The younger man survived.
The names of the victims were not immediately released.
Farther south along the coast, in Wrightsville Beach, rescue personnel saved 29 swimmers who got caught in rip currents on Thursday.
Signs Of The Time: NCDOT To Replace Signs On I-85/40
Signs of change are about to take place on a stretch of Interstate 85/40.
Contractors with the N.C. Department of Transportation will be closing alternating shoulders along a 25-mile stretch of I-85/40 from Guilford-Alamance county line to the split in Orange County over the next month to remove aging ground-mounted signs and replace them with new signs.
If weather permits, the work will occur daily from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting Tuesday, July 26. It's expected to be completed by Wednesday, Aug. 31.
While the road will not be closed, crews will be working alongside traffic.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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