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A N.C. Senate bill that would significantly expand the state’s newborn safe surrender law cleared its second committee step Tuesday.

A bill that would significantly expand the state’s newborn safe surrender law has made it to the N.C. Senate floor for a vote.

A N.C. Senate bill that would significantly expand the state’s newborn safe surrender law cleared its first committee step last week.

A $25 million gift to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will fund a new center built around reducing youth suicides.

Established in 1949, May is observed as Mental Health Awareness Month across the United States.   Here in New Hanover County, mental health continues to be a topic reverberating throughout our community. It is an issue our Board of Commissioners has committed to addressing, and in just the past year the county has doubled the amount of licensed clinical therapists in New Hanover County Schools. We now have 35 mental health experts to help address the needs of our students. We have also...

It’s heartrending when a child dies — for that child’s family and for all of us who learn of the death.

COVID-19, learning loss, stress, mental health, Mental health crisis, school counselors, school psychologists