Lars Lonnroth
Lars Lonnroth is a journalism and political science student at Mercer University in Georgia. He's interning at WFAE.
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CMS is hiring around 331 new teachers for next school year. Also, the district's special education program is trying to bring on new staff while also implementing new positions to better assist teachers and students.
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South Carolina leaders are moving to implement the state’s so-called Fetal Heartbeat Act, which bans abortions when cardiac activity is detected in a fetus. Lawmakers also express interest in curtailing abortion even further when the legislature convenes again.
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Lyft Cash allows riders to turn physical cash into Lyft ride credits at various retail stores. The ride share app hopes this will help the 7.1 million households that don’t have bank accounts get where they need to go.
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Juneteenth of the Carolinas celebrates 25 years. Here’s what Juneteenth means to festival attendees.People gathered in the Plaza Midwood neighborhood this weekend to celebrate Juneteenth, the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, found out they were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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With the Smithville Revitalization Plan, community members hope to breathe new life into an aging Black neighborhood, bringing new residents while also maintaining affordability and history.
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A North Carolina family was on a road trip through the west as flooding trapped them in the small town of Gardiner, just outside of Yellowstone National Park.
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Temperatures are set to be in the upper 90s most of this week. Until at least Wednesday, Mecklenburg County is running a cooling center.
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As protesters demand changes to gun laws, a bipartisan group of senators announces consensus on gun reform policies.
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The U.S. National Whitewater Center is opening new locations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. It also bought the Gravel Map app. Whitewater says that these moves are in hopes of connecting people to nature in new places and new spaces.
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COVID-19 cases in Mecklenburg County have been slowly rising since a number of springtime festivities like Easter, Memorial Day and spring break. Now, the county has entered the CDC's yellow zone for COVID-19 spread in their community level tool.