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Greensboro Leaders Ask For Volunteers, Donations As Tornado Recovery Begins
Greensboro city leaders are asking for help as the city begins to recover from the tornado that touched down there Sunday.
Homes and buildings were destroyed during the storm, and the city has acknowledged cleanup will take some time.
While Gov. Roy Cooper has promised help from the state, leaders are encouraging residents to get involved, too.
City officials are encouraging volunteers to register on the city's website.
There are also several vetted organizations taking donations to help residents in need. Those include Goodwill, the United Way of Greater Greensboro and the Interactive Resource Center.
NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air
NPR legend and North Carolina native Carl Kasell has died.
According to NPR, Kasell died this week from complications from Alzheimer's disease in Maryland.
But he grew up in Goldsboro, hiding behind the family radio, pretending he was the voice on the air.
Kasell attended UNC and was one of the first students to work at WUNC.
He joined NPR in 1975, and later became the morning newscaster, delivering the news to the nation for decades.
Eventually, audiences also got to know his sense of humor on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Carl Kasell was 84 years old.
Court Tests NC Ban On Selling Solar Power To Greensboro Church
North Carolina's highest court is considering whether a clean-energy advocacy group illegally sold solar power to one church to undercut the monopoly power of the state's electric utilities.
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sorted through differing descriptions of the 2015 deal which saw the group NC WARN install solar panels atop a Greensboro church. Faith Community Church agreed to pay below-market rates for the power produced.
Attorneys for Duke Energy, Dominion Energy and the state's official utilities consumer advocate say the contract shows NC WARN is selling the church electricity, something only regulated utilities are allowed to do.
NC WARN's attorney says the private deal with one church doesn't fit the description of selling to the public, though the group wanted to repeat the agreement with other nonprofits statewide.
At Least 40 Arrested In North Carolina Immigration Raids
About 40 people have been arrested in North Carolina in raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Bryan Cox with the agency's Atlanta office said about 15 people were arrested in western North Carolina last week. Cox told the Asheville-Citizen Times about 25 people were also arrested in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area.
Mike Meno with the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina criticized the raids, saying the enforcement effort breaks up families across the state.
Cox said everyone arrested has been charged with illegal entry to the United States. But he says most of the people were targeted because of previous criminal activity.
Court Orders Top NC University To Turn Over Sex Assault Data
A state appeals court is ordering North Carolina's flagship public university to turn over the names of students found responsible for rape or sexual assault in non-criminal, campus disciplinary proceedings.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill can't cite a federal student privacy law in withholding the information. University officials said the law blocked it from naming students disciplined for on-campus sexual misconduct.
The Daily Tar Heel campus newspaper, The Charlotte Observer, The Herald-Sun of Durham and WRAL-TV sued, pointing to an exception in the federal law protecting student records.