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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.
Two mothers of North Stanly High School cheerleaders have spoken out about their views on the President Trump campaign flag displayed during a recent North football game.
Jessica Stamper, mother of one of the cheerleaders shown in a now viral photograph from a football game holding a “Trump 2020 ‘Make America Great Again’ banner, wants to “set records straight as to how innocent and quickly this all happened.”
Cheerleaders at a North Carolina high school are on probation after posing with a Trump 2020 banner at a football game last month — a decision that has sparked criticism and debates about student rights to free speech.
The cheerleaders at North Stanley High School in New London, N.C., were placed on probation by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association for the rest of the football season — a step the organization described as a warning, not a punishment, because the squad was not suspended and will not be prevented from performing at upcoming football games.
Cheerleaders from a North Carolina high school were placed on probation after picture of them posing with a Trump banner during a football game surfaced on social media, the Charlotte Observer reports.
On Monday, Stanly County Schools announced that the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) had placed the cheerleading squad from North Stanly High School on probation for the remainder of the season. Because the NCHSAA “has not defined the terms of the probation,” the team can continue cheering, officials said.