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After fighting virus, storms and Republicans, departing North Carolina Gov. Cooper focuses on wins
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leaving his job after eight years in which the southern Democrat picked his moments against a Republican-dominated legislature, winning big on Medicaid expansion and clean energy while falling short in fights over private-school vouchers and...
Latest challenge to North Carolina's power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's current governor and his successor tacked on another lawsuit Monday disputing a key provision within a GOP law that erodes the powers of several incoming Democratic state leaders — the latest in a longstanding power struggle between North Carolina's...
Officer fatally shot in a North Carolina supermarket, suspect in custody, police say
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A police officer responding to a report of a man with a gun inside a North Carolina supermarket was fatally shot Monday and a suspect was later taken into custody, authorities said. Police announced the death of Greensboro police officer Michael Horan at a...
A power grab by Republicans in North Carolina becomes a referendum on democracy in the states
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democrats in North Carolina were celebrating big wins in the swing state after the November election, including victories in races for governor and other top statewide offices. But the political high didn’t last long. Republican lawmakers are stripping away...
More Roy Cooper lieutenants staying on the job in North Carolina Gov.-elect Stein's Cabinet
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several more top lieutenants of outgoing North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper have agreed to work for fellow Democrat and successor Josh Stein's administration, including two Cabinet secretaries and the state budget director, each of whom will stay in their current posts. ...
Next North Carolina governor names 7 Cabinet secretaries, with 2 current department heads
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Stein announced his choices for a majority of his Cabinet positions Monday before he takes office next month, with two of the seven revealed department secretaries being holdovers from outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper's administration. ...
North Carolina's Medicaid expansion hits enrollment goal about a year ahead of projections
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More than 600,000 people have enrolled in North Carolina's new Medicaid coverage for low-income adults about a year after the program's expansion, reaching the state's enrollment goal for the program in about half the time that was originally projected, the governor's office...
Current, future North Carolina governor's challenge of power-shifting law could be first of many
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Gov.-elect Josh Stein on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a portion of a law enacted just a day earlier by the Republican-dominated General Assembly that erodes Stein's powers and those of other top Democrats elected to statewide...
Vance tells residents in hurricane-stricken North Carolina that they haven't been forgotten
FAIRVIEW, N.C. (AP) — Vice President-elect JD Vance on Friday assured residents of western North Carolina still cleaning up from Hurricane Helene that they haven't been forgotten as he surveyed storm wreckage and talked to first responders in one of his first public appearances since the...
Yvonne Johnson, the first Black mayor of North Carolina's third-largest city, has died
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A longtime Greensboro council member who also was the first Black mayor of North Carolina’s third largest city has died. Yvonne Johnson, who was the mayor pro tempore on the current city council, died Wednesday at age 82, Mayor Nancy Vaughan announced in a...
