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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has been exploring ways to change how school performance grades are calculated in the state for over two years. But with pending legislation and an upcoming change in leadership, the work to redesign the system is currently on pause.

Around 100 people came out to celebrate the civil rights icons who helped integrate communities while establishing a far-reaching legacy.

Wake Forest athletics director John Currie in a statement called the cancellation and the Oregon State series "the right business decision." Kiffin had said Wake Forest broke "an unwritten rule" by backing out of next year's return trip to Oxford and forcing the school to search for a replacement game. The school didn't specify how much it must pay to buy out of that game.

Speaking during a Michigan town hall Tuesday, former President Trump said U.S. car manufacturers don’t have the materials that China has to produce electric vehicles.

The first deadline for bids was in August. Boone Public Works Director Todd Moody says three proposals had to be submitted for the bids to be opened — but none came in.

Land of Oz, which first opened in 1970, offers an immersive theatrical experience of the classic film during its three-weekend Autumn at Oz festival each September. WFDD’s April Laissle followed Dorothy’s journey through Kansas, Oz and the Emerald City for this installment of Piedmont Pit Stops.

The purchase by Toyota Tsusho could connect Forsyth County to the Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina plant in Liberty.

North Carolina's highest court is weighing whether a state law that gave adults who were victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages is constitutional or not. The state Supreme Court heard Wednesday five cases involving individuals who sued based on changes in a 2019 law. Victims used to have until age 21 to sue. The law raised that age but also gave other victims whose time period still had expired to file lawsuits in 2020 or 2021. The court gave no indication when it would rule on the constitutionality. Since 2002, 30 states revived previously expired child sex abuse claims with expansions of claim periods.

City officials have proposed a set of changes to the downtown parking program and now want community input on the matter.

The family of a Black man found dead in North Carolina with a rope around his neck under a tree is demanding answers and transparency from authorities,…