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A number of roads across the Charlotte area will be closed as the North Carolina Department of Transportation begins construction projects. Starting June 1, crews will begin replacing the Stanly County bridge on Bethany Road over Town Creek. The existing bridge, built in 1954, will be replaced with a 70-foot long cored slab structure. The contractor will have until the end of September to complete the project. Detours will be in place along U.S....

Yusuf Khan and his mother Nadia Shaik. The bill is designed to get more Texans — especially people of color — registered as potential donors. University of Houston senior Yusuf Khan testified in favor of the measure earlier this legislative session, detailing his mothers experience with the bone marrow registry. The night before Yusuf Khan’s high school graduation, he overheard a phone call. “I was up at night and was walking down my hallway and heard my stepdad on my phone and said ou...