WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: In response to North Carolina Republican lawmakers' overriding Governor Cooper's veto to stop them from stripping powers away from the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement: "The North Carolina Republican Party is desperately trying to cling to power after North Carolinians soundly rejected state Republicans at the ballot box this N more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 12 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following statement on Dec. 11, 2024: * * * Today, Attorney General and Governor-elect Josh Stein released the following statement after Governor Cooper's veto of SB382 was overridden. "The people of western North Carolina are desperate for help from their state government. Yet, this bill is a power grab, not hurricane relief. It is despicable for the Republicans in the General Assembly to use folks' in more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 12 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein announced a $825,000 settlement to resolve allegations that Carter Clinic, P.A., and its owner, Myleme Nyerere Ojinga Harrison, M.D. submitted false claims to the North Carolina Medicaid program. "Health care providers can't waste taxpayer dollars to put more in their own pockets," said Attorney General Josh Stein. "My office will hold a more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 12 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today warned four voice service providers that they have been transmitting suspected illegal robocall traffic on their networks on behalf of one or more of their customers, and that they must stop doing so. Attorney General Stein co-leads the 51-attorney general Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, which has been investigating  more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- North Carolina Community College System issued the following news on Dec. 11, 2024: The North Carolina Community College System will host a Bidders' Conference for the 2025-2029 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) grant application. The event will take place on Monday, January 27, 2025, from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at 200 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC, in the Gregory Poole Conference Room on the  more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 12 -- The North Carolina Department of Labor issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: Today, Labor Commissioner-elect Luke Farley announced his incoming government affairs team who will advance the Commissioner's and the N.C. Department of Labor's legislative and budgetary agenda. Edgar V. Starnes, Director of Governmental Affairs - Starnes represented Caldwell County in the North Carolina House of Representatives for a total of twenty years. During his more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: A new study suggests that increased maple populations may leave forests in western North Carolina more vulnerable to extreme weather conditions like flooding and drought. The southern Appalachian Mountains feature large, intact forests with frequent precipitation. This kind of area would not typically be a place to look for the effects of climate change, but the emergence of more "t more PR