by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2020 Cannon Hinnant was supposed to start kindergarten next week. On Sunday, the 5-year-old was shot in the head at point-blank range in front of his 7- and 8-year-old sisters in the driveway of their North Carolina home. Cannon Hinnant was white. The alleged shooter, 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, is black. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2020 The organizer of a “Back the Blue” rally in Asheville, North Carolina said he was astonished at the large turnout for the Aug. 1 event — especially since it was largely ignored by local officials and media. Ed Browne said he publicized the event on Facebook and residents “reported […]
FPI / July 30, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo As the orchestrated national surge of anti-police agitation continues, a new student group at Duke University is demanding that Duke disband its campus police department. The Duke Black Coalition Against Policing (BCAP) sent its list of extreme and unyielding demands in a nine-page manifesto to university […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 15, 2020 North Carolina’s Asheville City Council on Tuesday apologized for its role in slavery and racial discrimination and voted unanimously on a resolution which proposed reparations for the city’s black residents. The City Council said reparations will not be provided in the form of direct cash payments, as some have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2020 Welcome to a red state with a Democrat governor. Amy Cooke is CEO of the conservative John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina. She is married to a retired police officer and makes no secret of what she thinks is going on in Raleigh and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 25, 2020 President Donald Trump on Monday warned that he could pull the Republican National Convention from North Carolina if the state’s Democrat governor won’t guarantee the GOP will be allowed “full attendance” at the event. In a series of tweets, Trump noted that Gov. Roy Cooper is in “Shutdown mood […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 17, 2020 A federal judge on Saturday blocked Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s coronavirus lockdown order which essentially prohibited most churches from holding indoor services. Judge James C. Dever III made the ruling days after two Baptist churches, a minister and a Christian revival group filed a federal lawsuit seeking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2020 A North Carolina business owner, in a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper, appealed to the governor to lift the coronavirus quarantine that the business owner says is devastating the state. Bob Luddy, president and founder of CaptiveAire commercial ventilation technologies, made the appeal in a letter published by The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2020 A government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties for failing to clean their voter rolls. Judicial Watch’s lawsuit argues that North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, and Guilford County “failed to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible voters from their registration rolls as […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2020 A Second Amendment proponent whose 2018 gun rights speech went viral has won the Republican primary in the North Carolina lieutenant governor race. Mark Robinson, in the March 3 election, exceeded the 30 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff in the GOP primary. Democrats appeared headed to a […]