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Ivanka Trump, daughter of and adviser to President Donald Trump, paid a visit to the NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresville on Wednesday to lend her support to the organization's mission.

The NASCAR Technical Institute provides students with training in the automotive and computer numerical-control machining industries. It opened in 2002.

The 2020 Republican National Convention will be held Aug. 24-27 in Charlotte, officials announced Monday, giving organizers less than two years to raise $70 million for the event and prepare the city for tens of thousands of visitors.

Monarch of Stanly County has been awarded a $1.6 million federal grant to help combat mental illness and drug addiction. If successful, the award could nearly double next year.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House approved more than billion dollars in federal assistance for the Carolinas following Hurricane Florence.

Moore Montessori Community School has been awarded a $400,000 grant from a U.S. Department of Education program for new charter schools.

Moore County’s third charter and first public Montessori school opened last month in Southern Pines with about 90 students in kindergarten through second grade. The school plans to serve grades K-6 by 2022.

This week, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) traveled across the eighth district to meet with Emergency Management officials and other local leaders, learn more about response and recovery efforts, and talk with constituents in shelters about the impact of Hurricane Florence.

As the state’s death toll from Florence climbed to 27 on Wednesday, residents in waterlogged Stanly County pushed forward.