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HENDERSON — The Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments held its annual awards ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Leo Kelly, chairman of the Kerr-Tar Board of Directors, presided over the meeting, which was held virtually via Zoom. The Kerr-Tar Annual award presentations were as follows: • Outstanding Board Member Award: Jimmy B. Clayton, Person County, presented by Danny Wright of Vance County; • Outstanding Municipal Elected Official: Wayne Aycock, mayor of Norlina, presented...

Social distancing and other contagion protocols are difficult behind bars, but an investigation by WFAA and The Marshall Project showed that the spread of COVID-19 behind bars was also due to the Texas Department of Criminal Justices lackluster response, potentially exacerbating outbreaks and putting surrounding communities at risk. The agencys website lists the prisoners who have died from the virus. Below is a list of those people, including Campos.  Among the list are four people who offici...

because of what it means for the national defense strategy. every dollar we corral matters especially because of impending cuts and financial restraints. the budget shapes not only our discussions on force, size, structure, and capability, and ultimately determines whether the war fighters have the tools and equipments they need to do their jobs. this is the prism through which i view discussions about audit readiness and why im pleased to be having this discussion today. before we get...

here are the phone lines. if you would like to send a message by twitter, the addresses cspanwj. we will start with a story in the middle east with the unrest with a number of countries. we will begin by looking at the front page of the new york times. david kirkpatrick, we learned this during a late-night phone call. lets look at hillary clinton and some comments she had to make yesterday. >> this video is disgusting and reprehensible. it appears to have a deeply cynical purpose to de...

He was a star on the high school basketball court, rather. big star, but he was actually living a lie. the young man many thought was a high school student wasnt, and he fooled a lot of people. eddie garcia, cnn affiliate kosa in odessa has more. >> reporter: for more than a year he successfully convinced school officials, students, even law enforcement that he was 16-year-old jerry joseph, an immigrant from haiti. >> i cant imagine not playing basketball right now. >> he flew under the radar in...

pictures of the growing disaster in the gulf. b.p. just released them. cnn had requested this video weeks ago. finally, after a lot of pressure, we get to see it. you can see the oil and the natural gas pouring from the broken well. the natural gas is the lighter colored stuff you see coming up there. the mineral management service, the government agency in charge of inspection, said it checked our rigs and those quick inspections turning up only minor issues. they point to multiple fa...