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North Carolina Senate Panel Oks Bill For Voter ID Denial Fix
Altered rules on how North Carolina student and employee identification cards must be authenticated before they qualify as voter identification required for next year's elections are advancing through the state legislature.
The Senate elections committee recommended on Tuesday bipartisan legislation already approved by the House, after the panel made slight changes.
Without some changes, hundreds of state and local institutions can't apply again to the State Board of Elections to have their IDs qualify for election use until 2021. The bill now heading to another Senate committee provides another chance to qualify by this fall.
Vice President Visits North Carolina For Convention, Trade, Fundraiser
Vice President Mike Pence is traveling to North Carolina to celebrate the approach of next year's Republican National Convention, to visit a textile plant and to attend a political fundraiser in Greensboro.
Pence is expected to arrive in Charlotte at midday Wednesday to participate in an RNC kickoff meeting. The convention will be held in August 2020. He's then set to tour Parkdale Mills in Monroe.
Pence also is the special guest at a "Trump Victory" fundraising event in Greensboro. U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis will attend.
Guilford County Sheriff Won't Stop School-Day License Checks
The new sheriff in one of North Carolina's most populated counties says he won't quit doing traffic stops even though activists say they could be targeting immigrants for deportation.
Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers's office released a statement on Tuesday saying he sympathizes with immigrant parents, but his job is keeping all citizens safe.
Advocates for immigrants had asked Rogers to halt license checks on weekday afternoons when parents are driving to pick up children from school.
But Rogers's office says he won't tell officers to stop doing their jobs at certain times of the day, because lawbreakers may be driving without a license.
North Carolina Day Care Closing After 5 Toddlers Escape
A Winston-Salem day care center is closing after five of its toddlers escaped and wandered near a major road.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that officials at Pinedale Christian Day Care have informed the state Child Development and Early Education division that it's closing in three weeks.
State Health and Human Services spokeswoman Sarah Lewis Peel says the decision was made voluntarily by the day care, which operates inside Pinedale Christian Church.
Teacher Charged With Threatening To 'Shoot Up' Her School
A North Carolina teacher has been charged with threatening to "shoot up" her school.
A news release from the Orange County Sheriff's Office says Kristen Thompson was arrested Tuesday on a felony charge of communicating a threat of mass violence.
The sheriff's office says Thompson abruptly resigned Friday from Pathways Elementary School in Hillsborough. It says other teachers reported that Thompson "made threats to shoot up the school."
Statesville Tries To Stop Store From Flying US Flag
Officials in Statesville have filed a lawsuit to force a recreational vehicle store to take down a U.S. flag which they say is too large.
The flag is 40 feet by 80 feet and flies above Gander RV.
City officials say the store was granted a permit to fly a U.S. flag, but it's nearly twice what city codes allow. Fines of $50 a day have been levied retroactive to Oct. 15, amounting to approximately $11,000.
Gander RV has rejected the city's requests to take down the flag.
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