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Cooper lifts all gathering, distancing limits and most mask requirements in NC WSOCTV.com News Staff Remaining six feet apart, limiting capacity at family gatherings and wearing a face covering almost everywhere have all become a part of life, but that’s all over in North Carolina. In a major step toward returning to pre-pandemic life, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Friday that the state is completely lifting all mandatory capacity, gathering limits and social distancing requirements, effective immediately. Today, Gov. Cooper announced a big step forward in our fight against the ...

11 hours ago in Local Photo: WNAX The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced last week they were awarding fifty million dollars to NPPD to rebuild Spencer Dam. That was destroyed in the flooding of March 2019. NPPD Spokesman Mark Becker says that dam had been out of service and they were negotiating to sell it before it was destroyed… Becker says they followed FEMA procedure after the flooding… Becker says the plan is to clean up the area around the dam… The surge from the dam caused damage downstream around Niobrara and into Lewis & Clark Lake. ...

One year later, ‘Raise the Age’ law getting mixed reviews Mark Becker © BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock Jacqueline Lewis said it was a mother’s intuition that told her that her son was gone. Her son, 30-year-old Cinquay Ferrer, was shot and killed on the street in front of their north Charlotte home just two nights before Christmas. One of the men police charged with killing Ferrer was only 16 years old. Lewis said she was heartbroken when she learned that someone so young was involved in her son’s murder, but what really hurt was finding out that under a new law, the man wa...

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