Published: 2020-07-24 18:14:00Updated: 2020-07-24 18:21:38PolitifactNCTags:By Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporterThe novel coronavirus outbreak has prompted renewed attention on controversial comments Thom Tillis made in 2015.Tillis is the Republican incumbent running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina. He faces a challenge from Democrat Cal Cunningham in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country.A new TV ad from Majority Forward PAC takes the senator’s old comments and presents them in the context of the pandemic. The ad highlights Tillis’ comments on regulation and hand washing....…Published: 2020-07-24 18:14:00Updated: 2020-07-24 18:21:38PolitifactNCTags:By Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporterThe novel coronavirus outbreak has prompted renewed attention on controversial comments Thom Tillis made in 2015.Tillis is the Republican incumbent running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina. He faces a challenge from Democrat Cal Cunningham in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country.A new TV ad from Majority Forward PAC takes the senator’s old comments and presents them in the context of the pandemic. The ad highlights Tillis’ comments on regulation and hand washing....WW…

Published: 2020-08-05 14:10:00Updated: 2020-08-05 22:26:51WRAL InvestigatesTags:By Cullen Browder, WRAL anchor/reporter — Protestors marched in Winston-Salem Wednesday after the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, responding to a judge's order, released two videos showing the events that led to the death of county jail inmate John Neville.WRAL News is part of a media collaborative that petitioned the court to release the video.According to the autopsy report, Neville, 56, died on Dec. 4, 2019, from a brain injury that was caused by positional and compressional asphyxia during prone restraint,...…Published: 2020-08-05 14:10:00Updated: 2020-08-05 22:26:51WRAL InvestigatesTags:By Cullen Browder, WRAL anchor/reporter — Protestors marched in Winston-Salem Wednesday after the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, responding to a judge's order, released two videos showing the events that led to the death of county jail inmate John Neville.WRAL News is part of a media collaborative that petitioned the court to release the video.According to the autopsy report, Neville, 56, died on Dec. 4, 2019, from a brain injury that was caused by positional and compressional asphyxia during prone restraint,...WW…

Published: 2020-10-08 14:11:00Updated: 2020-10-08 19:40:16Health TeamTags:By Matthew Burns, WRAL.com senior producer/politics editor, & Keely Arthur, WRAL reporter — North Carolina tallied its third-highest one-day number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday, as the spread of the virus starts to inch up again after several weeks of stability.The 2,428 new cases trail only the totals reported on two days in mid-July, when viral spread in the state was at its peak. The rolling average of new cases has risen to 1,784 a day over the last week, the highest average since Aug. 3.Dr. David...…Published: 2020-10-08 14:11:00Updated: 2020-10-08 19:40:16Health TeamTags:By Matthew Burns, WRAL.com senior producer/politics editor, & Keely Arthur, WRAL reporter — North Carolina tallied its third-highest one-day number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday, as the spread of the virus starts to inch up again after several weeks of stability.The 2,428 new cases trail only the totals reported on two days in mid-July, when viral spread in the state was at its peak. The rolling average of new cases has risen to 1,784 a day over the last week, the highest average since Aug. 3.Dr. David...WW…