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STANLY COUNTY, N.C. - The North Stanly High School cheerleading team is off probation after a political controversy.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association put the North Stanly High School cheerleading team on probation last month for taking part in a political message at a game.
Students and cheerleaders apparently posed for photos with a "Trump 2020: Make America Great Again" flag last month and the photo circulated on Facebook.
A football game was even abruptly canceled because of safety concerns.
SALISBURY — Rowan Little League’s softball world champions have a date in Washington — at the White House on Friday, Oct. 11.
The team won the Little League Softball World Series in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 14. The girls returned home to a victory parade in downtown Salisbury and a celebration at their home ballpark at Salisbury Community Park.
Like the rest of the country, North Carolina's congressional delegation remains divided on the topic of impeachment. Predictably, those to the left of the aisle are supportive, and those to the right are largely resistant.
However, at least one North Carolina Republican, Rep. Virginia Foxx, has said while she doesn't support "partisan speculation," she does support "good faith efforts that get to the bottom of the whistleblower's allegations." Foxx is a member of the House Oversight Committee, and one of House's more moderate Republicans.
SALISBURY — As U.S. House Democrats announced the opening of an impeachment inquiry Tuesday, Reps. Ted Budd, R-13, and Richard Hudson, R-8, whose districts include parts of Rowan County, said they continue to support President Donald Trump.
Budd called the impeachment inquiry “another fishing expedition” to remove Trump as president. Hudson said Democrats are on “a political vendetta.”
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA — Angelina Morales was born just nine days before 9/11, and lost her father less than two years later, from the war on terror that would follow.
She was almost two years old when her father, Army Staff Sgt. Orlando Morales, a Green Beret, was killed in Afghanistan on March, 23, 2003 in the town of Gereshk in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.
LUMBERTON — Sen. Thom Tillis has added his name to the effort to get the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina full federal recognition.
On Tuesday, the Republican signed on as a co-sponsor of Senate legislation that aims to make long-sought recognition a reality. The legislation, titled the Lumbee Recognition Act, was introduced to the Senate by North Carolina’s other Senate delegate, Richard Burr, on May 8. To date, Tillis is the only co-sponsor.
Legal scholars are blowing the whistle on a North Carolina school district and the state’s high school sports sanctioning body following a free speech controversy.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association placed North Stanly High School’s cheerleading squad on probation after some of its members posed with a banner promoting President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election bid before the Aug. 30 football game, The Stanly News & Press reported. Someone shared a picture of the teen Trump supporters on Facebook and the image went viral.