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By Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter Enfield, N.C. — The grandmother looked at a borrowed tablet and cried. The local school system provides free internet now, so that wasnt the problem. The problem, Evelyn Parker said, was she didnt have the first idea how to help her 9-year-old grandson or the 16-year old she serves as guardian to log on for online school. Thank God, she said, for the learning pod at First Baptist Church. Like churches, libraries and community centers across North C...

70 homes shot this year, and the city of Kalamazoo wants to help fix them Updated Dec 17, 2020; Posted Dec 16, 2020 Facebook Share KALAMAZOO, MI — Kalamazoo city commissioners talked further about how to spend $100,000 on efforts to reduce gun violence in the community. Discussion among city leaders during a Monday, Dec. 14, City Commission work session touched on frightening examples of how the issue is being felt in the city, from the regular sound of gunshots to residents feeling unsafe ...

Of that 2008 obama as opposed to the 2010 obama which is nmore doom and gloom and we need to know things are going to work out. >> a young politician that young people are connecting with? i think if obama gets back in the spirit people will connect with him. probably mike huckabee is who is having fun out there and he goes off the book a lot and i think that is something that people spread to each other on facebook, they like talking about that kind of thing. >> eric cunningham, many thanks for...

he says gadhafis chief of staff invited him and the white house and congress knows about it. lets talk about this with nic robertson. do you think weldon can make something happen? >> reporter: well, this is really what the libyans have been waiting for, some diplomatic contact with the united states. they are very angry with the europeans and have been quite angry with the united states. the record speaks for itself. we have heard from gadhafi. he seems to be toning down that rhetoric...

Date line special. >> eric, do you think its about intimacy? that its not about sports. >> i feel like if youre -- if theres something about wrestling a girl that you think is sinful, then thats not wrestling. i dont know what it is but thats not wrestling. >> i know what it is. >> its not boxing. yeah. bad question. it is wrestling. its obviously a very physical sport but its not boxing. it isnt cage match fighting. its about control and trying to pin somebody. i think overall it might be -- i ...

We have to leave it there. eric cunningham, founder of news parody site and amy holmes, host of the radio talk show americas morning news. great match, guys. >> thank you. time now for the help desk where we get answers to your financial questions. ryan mack is the president of optimum capital management and doug flynn a certified financial planner and founder of flynn zito. thanks for being here today, guys. our first question is i work for a global company and i may move to the uk are or ind...

Time now for our under reported story of the week. a high school wrestler from iowa gives up his chance to become a state champion by refusing to wrestle a girl. joel northrup, a home schooled sophomore, is calling his decision to forfeit the match a matter of faith. and he says he doesnt think its, quote, appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. amy holmes and eric cunningham are here to grapple over the story. take this on. im going to start off, eric, with you here. tell us abou...

demonstrators, a few hundred of them were trying to move back into pearl square. he heard the gunshots when we were not at the location. when we arrived there, we were talking to a man who was covered in blood. he said it was from the person who was standing next to him who had been shot in the head, saying that the military standing there was using live ammunition, and an ambulance worker was telling us four had been killed in the initial barrage of gun fire, and as we were having the...

Good idea, bad idea? amy, ive got to start with you. >> well i wonder if mayor bloomberg thinks hes the mayor of new york or singapore? hes going to put caning on the books here. tobacco is a legal thing. a pack ofis $13. if you go a private club in new york, a high entrance fee, you can smoke inside. its people who want to take a work break, loading docks in the middle of the night and take a smoke break, the neem will really suffer. >> eric? >> i feel like the ban is more in parks, and i feel ...

Times so we can enjoy the good ones. it comes from the love that binds us. thats what makes a family. now, with the next fou hours well he has plenty of testimony how damaging having gay parents is by kids. not once have ian confronted who realized independently i was raised by a gay couple. you know why? because the sexual orientation of my parents have had zero effect on the content of my character. thank you very much. now to the best, most under covered storied of week, new york citys ban ...