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DaiQuan Dickerson, 20, of Red Lion, maintained that he is innocent of charges including first-degree murder and vowed to appeal.

Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods has promoted Greg Rex from director of construction to vice president of construction and a member of the management team.

A multiracial lawsuit demanding the removal of a Confederate monument in Iredell County, North Carolina, offers a historic family twist. One of the residents supporting the move is a descendant of Robert E. Lee. The Rev. Robert Wright "Rob" Lee IV of Statesville, a fourth great-nephew of the Confederacy's commanding general, is among a group of residents and organizations calling on Iredell ...

The Confederate Monument outside the historic Iredell County Courthouse. The Iredell County Commissioners voted to remove the monument in March, but then reconsidered, prompting the lawsuit. “A glorified symbol of White Supremacy stands guard over the Iredell County Government Center, a place where the government is supposed to serve all of Iredell County’s residents,” said Rev. Curtis Johnson, President of the South Iredell NAACP, in a statement on the suit Tuesday. “That is totally unacceptable, as the Commissioners recognized in their March Resolution. The Monument must go . . . p...

By Ben Gibson | Statesville Record & Landmark The battle over the Iredell County Confederate Memorial is in a new phase after a group of plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding the county remove the statue. In the press release, the group said the Iredell County Commissioners' vote to begin the removal process — before seemingly backtracking — was one of the reasons the lawsuit was filed. "In fact, on March 3 of this year, the Iredell County Board of Commissioners voted to remove the Confederate Monument, admitting in their Resolution that the monument 'occupied a p...