Former state Senator Marc Basnight died Monday at age 73. File photo
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Former state Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, a Manteo native and the coastal region’s champion throughout a storied legislative career, died Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. He was 73.
A private burial service was held for the family due to COVID-19. A memorial will be held when its safe to gather together to celebrate his life and love for our state. His obituary is on Twiford Funeral Homes Outer Banks website.
Basnight was first elected in 1985 to represent Senate District 1, which today includes Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington.
BOONE â Two Appalachian State students are among 21 charged in relation to a drug distribution ring on the campuses of Appalachian State University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Duke University, announced the Department of Justice at a Thursday, Dec. 17 press conference.
âThis is a large drug network and supply chain fueling a drug culture at fraternities and within these universities and around these universities and towns,â said Matt Martin, U.S. attorney for the middle district of North Carolina. âThese are 21 hardened drug dealers.â
Martin said the investigation is ongoing. App State spokesperson Megan Hayes said the university is âcooperating fully with law enforcement in this investigation.â
If You re Allergic to This, You Should Wait to Get the COVID Vaccine
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A Duke University Drug Ring?! Inside The Case Rocking Campuses In North Carolina
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Knowledge and faith. and thousands of pounds of cocaine! Guess Duke University needs to update their motto (what s the word for coke in Latin?). While no one who has ever been to college, or seen a movie about college, or read a book about college, should be so shocked that kids are experimenting with illegal substances at school, a new report from North Carolina names over 20 people, including students at Duke and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, as part of an insane drug ring distributing more than $1.5 million worth of marijuana, cocaine, and other substances on campus.