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Charges dismissed for two men accused of toppling UNC's Silent Sam statue The district attorney said the decision was based on having to prioritize cases piling up in the court system since it was shut down by the pandemic. Author: Associated Press Updated: 7:54 AM EST January 28, 2021 HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Prosecutors have dismissed charges against two men who appealed their convictions in the 2018 toppling of a Confederate statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Orange-Chatham District A...

Updated: 12:24 PM EST Jan 28, 2021 Associated Press Prosecutors dismissed charges against two men who appealed their convictions in the 2018 toppling of a Confederate statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall says the decision was based on having to prioritize cases piling up in the Orange County court system since it was shut down by the COVID-19 outbreak in March, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported.Raul Arce Jimenez and Shawn Birchfield-Finn, along with three others, were charged with inju...

Anonymous accusations came from an activist group North Carolina State University announced Monday that it had cleared an employee accused of a number of accusations lodged against him by a local activist group. Activist group Move Silent Sam had accused Chadwick Seagraves, an IT desktop support manager, of doxxing leftist activists, supporting white supremacy through Proud Boys membership and using his position to obtain personal data on students. Move Silent Sam successfully lobbied for University of North Carolina to remove a Confederate soldier statue in 2019. Seagraves had also been accu...

What Does the Fraternity Drug Bust Mean for Chapel Hill? Kevin Guskiewicz UNC Interim Chancellor (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill) An eleventh-hour announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice and Orange County Sheriff’s Office right at the end of 2020 dropped a bomb on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. It reverberated across the country. Twenty-one people were indicted for moving serious weight in a small college town with fewer than 60,000 residents. They’re accused of selling over a thousand pounds of marijuana, a few hundred pounds of cocaine, and other narcotics at...

‘I categorically denounce white supremacism and, as a patriotic American, I abhor the concept of fascism and authoritarianism of any sort’ An IT manager for North Carolina State University is defending his reputation against charges of white supremacy from a local activist group. He also faces allegations from a socialist activist group leader that he posted personal information online and encouraged harassment. Chadwick Jason Seagraves, a desktop support manager for the public university, told The College Fix that accusations against him of white supremacy and membership in the Proud Bo...