As the highly-transmissible delta variant moves through the Lumbee community, many are now feeling the impact of the pandemic at a personal level.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted this week to maintain a mask mandate in schools, while Lincoln County's school board voted to make masks optional. Union County Public Schools stopped contact tracing and quarantines, but state health officials told the school board there to follow COVID-19 requirements or face possible legal action. Mecklenburg County employees are suspended for noncompliance of COVID testing rules and fear is high at three area schools connected to recent shootings. -
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FBI Director Christopher Wray told the gymnasts, who had testified at a Senate Judiciary hearing, he was "deeply and profoundly sorry that so many people let you down over and over again." -
A new homeless shelter for men opened on Wednesday in Charlotte. The Howard Levine Men’s Shelter will house men who have been living in an emergency motel-based shelter during the pandemic.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency said "a number of stakeholders" from international athletics asked it to review the ban. U.S. sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson was not able to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted Tuesday to keep requiring masks, while the Lincoln County board voted to follow Union County's model: Masks optional, no more quarantines.
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The federal government is continuing to decide how it will rename bases across the U.S. named after Confederate service members, a mandate included in the defense bill approved by Congress in January.
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The U.S. Soccer Federation is offering the men's and women's senior national teams the same pay structure, years after the women's team filed a major lawsuit over equal pay concerns.
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The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to temporarily block the new Texas abortion ban while its lawsuit against the state continues.
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A state performance audit says North Carolina’s Department of Transportation spents less than anticipated during the second half of 2020. But State Auditor Beth Wood's office says DOT hadn't carried out key recommendations from last year's audit, which found several hundred million dollars in overspending.
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The delta variant and reopening of schools has many on the hunt for COVID-19 tests.
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The Canadian stand-up comedian died from cancer on Tuesday. He was best known for his deadpan humor and work on television shows including Saturday Night Live.
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Relief payments moved 11.7 million people from poverty in 2020, according to new Census Bureau data.
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Business and residential customers of Piedmont Natural Gas could see their rates go up Nov. 1 under an agreement the company reached last week with customer groups and the state's utility consumer advocate.
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This week's guest on SouthBound is Adia Victoria, a singer from Nashville by way of South Carolina. She explores a spooky, moody brand of roots music on her new album, “A Southern Gothic.”
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Photo courtesy of Petrov./The sights you see, the people you meet, the life experiences that shape your hours, days, and years. How would you paint a picture of your day-to-day? If you were to ask Petrov, named one of Charlotte's most promising up-and-coming bands, you may find that the best kind of journal is a musical one (or, at the very least, one that is soundtracked by dreamy rock music).
CORONAVIRUS
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The art installation, called In America: Remember, will be on display at the National Mall for more than two weeks. It honors the more than 660,000 lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States.
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COVID-19 has torn through the largely rural and racially diverse community. In the past two weeks, 37 people have died from the disease. That represents more than 10% of those who have died from COVID-19 in the county since March of 2020.
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WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD/Woody Marshall/News & Record / via Gov. Roy CooperHalf of all South Carolinians eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine are now fully inoculated. The milestone announced Thursday by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control comes as a recent spike in cases driven by the delta variant has begun to decline.
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French law had set a Sept. 15 deadline for the country's 2.7 million health care workers to get vaccinated. The ones who didn't get a jab were suspended, the country's health minister says.
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