Published: 2020-06-30 15:13:00Updated: 2020-06-30 17:42:29EducationTags:By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter, and Randall Kerr, WRAL Investigates producer — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will pay a $1.5 million fine and implement a list of other steps to settle claims that the institution violated a federal law governing the disclosure of crime on campus.In August 2019, the U.S. Department of Education concluded after a six-year investigation that the university had failed to properly disclose crime statistics, appropriately warn the campus community of public...…Published: 2020-06-30 15:13:00Updated: 2020-06-30 17:42:29EducationTags:By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter, and Randall Kerr, WRAL Investigates producer — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will pay a $1.5 million fine and implement a list of other steps to settle claims that the institution violated a federal law governing the disclosure of crime on campus.In August 2019, the U.S. Department of Education concluded after a six-year investigation that the university had failed to properly disclose crime statistics, appropriately warn the campus community of public...WW…

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: 2020-05-19 19:12:00Updated: 2020-05-19 23:14:20State NewsTags:By Mandy Mitchell, WRAL enterprise reporter, and Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter — A new scorecard created by public health and crisis experts tracking each state's fight against COVID-19 says North Carolina isn't yet meeting reopening criteria established by the White House.Gov. Roy Cooper is eyeing Friday as the start of Phase Two of his plan to ease restrictions on gatherings and businesses. The move would lift a statewide stay-at-home order for most residents and reopen restaurants, salons and gyms at...…Published: 2020-05-19 19:12:00Updated: 2020-05-19 23:14:20State NewsTags:By Mandy Mitchell, WRAL enterprise reporter, and Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter — A new scorecard created by public health and crisis experts tracking each state's fight against COVID-19 says North Carolina isn't yet meeting reopening criteria established by the White House.Gov. Roy Cooper is eyeing Friday as the start of Phase Two of his plan to ease restrictions on gatherings and businesses. The move would lift a statewide stay-at-home order for most residents and reopen restaurants, salons and gyms at...WW…

Published: 2020-05-12 18:25:00Updated: 2020-05-14 17:46:11State NewsTags:By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter — One of the lead University of Washington researchers whose team is now predicting more than 4,400 deaths in North Carolina from COVID-19 through early August says state leaders are moving too quickly to reopen.published Tuesday sharply increased the statewide number of expected coronavirus deaths, a fourfold rise over past projections. Just two days before, the model from the university-based independent research center put the forecast number of cumulative deaths in North...…Published: 2020-05-12 18:25:00Updated: 2020-05-14 17:46:11State NewsTags:By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter — One of the lead University of Washington researchers whose team is now predicting more than 4,400 deaths in North Carolina from COVID-19 through early August says state leaders are moving too quickly to reopen.published Tuesday sharply increased the statewide number of expected coronavirus deaths, a fourfold rise over past projections. Just two days before, the model from the university-based independent research center put the forecast number of cumulative deaths in North...WW…

Published: 2020-05-12 18:25:00Updated: 2020-05-14 17:46:11State NewsTags:By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter — One of the lead University of Washington researchers whose team is now predicting more than 4,400 deaths in North Carolina from COVID-19 through early August says state leaders are moving too quickly to reopen.published Tuesday sharply increased the statewide number of expected coronavirus deaths, a fourfold rise over past projections. Just two days before, the model from the university-based independent research center put the forecast number of cumulative deaths in North...…Published: 2020-05-12 18:25:00Updated: 2020-05-14 17:46:11State NewsTags:By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter — One of the lead University of Washington researchers whose team is now predicting more than 4,400 deaths in North Carolina from COVID-19 through early August says state leaders are moving too quickly to reopen.published Tuesday sharply increased the statewide number of expected coronavirus deaths, a fourfold rise over past projections. Just two days before, the model from the university-based independent research center put the forecast number of cumulative deaths in North...WW…

Published: 2020-04-21 19:06:00Updated: 2020-04-21 20:11:28State NewsTags:In late March, Mary Wyatt was concerned about her husband Frank. They’d been married 66 years and had moved around the country together as he pursued his military career, and then worked in the state of Florida. Now they were retired in Cherokee County.Mary Wyatt called the doctor, who was alarmed about his condition.“He was running a fever and he was so sick,” she said of her husband. “The doctor said to bring him to the emergency room immediately.”They ran every test imaginable on him, including one that checked for...…Published: 2020-04-21 19:06:00Updated: 2020-04-21 20:11:28State NewsTags:In late March, Mary Wyatt was concerned about her husband Frank. They’d been married 66 years and had moved around the country together as he pursued his military career, and then worked in the state of Florida. Now they were retired in Cherokee County.Mary Wyatt called the doctor, who was alarmed about his condition.“He was running a fever and he was so sick,” she said of her husband. “The doctor said to bring him to the emergency room immediately.”They ran every test imaginable on him, including one that checked for...WW…

Published: 2020-08-06 17:08:00Updated: 2020-08-06 18:22:17EducationTags:By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter, and Randall Kerr, WRAL investigative producer — After a nearly 4-year legal fight, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has released the names of 15 students sanctioned for sexual misconduct through its secretive disciplinary process.The release of the records comes three months after the state Supreme Court, , sided with a coalition of North Carolina media organizations that sued the university after it denied a 2016 public records request for the information. The...…Published: 2020-08-06 17:08:00Updated: 2020-08-06 18:22:17EducationTags:By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter, and Randall Kerr, WRAL investigative producer — After a nearly 4-year legal fight, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has released the names of 15 students sanctioned for sexual misconduct through its secretive disciplinary process.The release of the records comes three months after the state Supreme Court, , sided with a coalition of North Carolina media organizations that sued the university after it denied a 2016 public records request for the information. The...WW…