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Demonstrators Demand Action On The Dream Act
Protesters turned out at Wake Forest University in support of the Dream Act, which would provide citizenship to about 800,000 immigrants under the DACA program.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that about 100 students and city residents demonstrated outside Wait Chapel on Thursday.
The protest was timed to coincide with action taken in Washington, DC, where college students visited the offices of North Carolina congressional members demanding they vote for a Dream Act.
A Wake Forest spokesman says there are about a dozen undocumented university students who participate in the DACA program.
North Carolina Man Leaps From Street Protests Into Politics
Braxton Winston stood defiantly with fist raised before riot police in 2016 to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by a North Carolina officer, a bold protest captured in photographs seen around the country. Now the activist has taken his passion into politics, winning a seat on the Charlotte City Council.
Winston, who is black, was elected to the 11-member council Tuesday. Voters also chose the first African-American woman as mayor of North Carolina's largest city.
Suddenly Winston, instead of challenging government, will be part of it. He says he's pleased voters put their trust in him.
1 Flu Death Reported In North Carolina; 3 For The Season
State health officials say a third person has died from the flu in North Carolina.
The state Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that like the two victims reported last week, the latest flu death involved a person 65 years of age or older.
As in other instances, health officials didn't say where the victim lived.
North Carolina's flu season officially begins Oct. 1 and lasts through March 31.
In the previous season, 219 people died as a result of the flu, the most deaths since DHHS began recording it in 2008.
Jury Convicts Marine Drill Instructor Of Abuse
A military jury has convicted a Marine Corps drill instructor of abusing young recruits and then lying about his actions to investigators.
The eight-man jury at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, decided Thursday that Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix's punching, choking and kicking of recruits at the Marine Corps' Parris Island, South Carolina, boot camp included a focus on three Muslim men.
The 34-year-old Iraq veteran could be sentenced to military prison, financial penalties and a dishonorable discharge.
Felix was accused of being a central figure in an abusive group of drill instructors at Parris Island uncovered after the March 2016 suicide of one of the Muslim-American recruits targeting.
Suspect In Salisbury Bank Robbery Shot, Killed By Cops
Police in Salisbury say the suspect in a bank robbery was shot and killed following a chase.
Salisbury police say that officers received a call of a bank robbery at a Wells Fargo branch on Thursday, and that a customer had been shot.
Police Chief Jerry Stokes said the customer was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.