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By Mark Starling New COVID Vaccine Coming To NC (Raleigh, NC) -- A new COVID-19 vaccine is on its way to North Carolina. The FDA just gave emergency approval for Johnson & Johnson's single dose vaccine, which is shipping out nationwide this week. North Carolina is expected to receive anywhere from 30-to-60-thousand doses initially. More than a-million-and-a-half vaccines have been distributed statewide so far. General Assembly Taking On School Bill After Veto (Raleigh, NC) -- North Carolina's General Assembly is taking up the school re-opening bill again this week. Governor Roy Coope...

Local COVID-19 metrics have dropped to where they were before the holidays, but it's no time for residents to let their guard down, says Public Health Director Stacie Saunders.  In a community update Feb. 23, she said that metrics are improving, but the community needs to keep practicing the three Ws. "While we are seeing improvements in cases, this is not the time to cut back on the preventive measures that matter so much right now," Saunders said. "Help us continue to fight back COVID-19 with wearing your mask, washing your hands and keeping your distance." The county's current rate of 1...

  The state’s highest court last month upheld an N.C. Court of Appeals decision that had reversed a trial court decision in favor of the defendants. The defendants had argued in Henderson County Superior Court that the plaintiffs’ lawsuit made claims that were barred by a state Supreme Court precedent limiting similar claims of emotional harm from a wrongful death. “In this tragic case, the facts are undisputed,” the Supreme Court said in the opening line of a 19-page opinion supporting the case brought by the child’s parents. On Oct. 26, 2015, Angel Newman dropped off her 2-year-o...

DSDHA reveals plans to demolish and replace Holborn tower block 1/3 Source: DSDHA has unveiled plans to knock down a 17-storey Travelodge hotel in the heart of central London and replace it with a taller scheme The practice said redeveloping 1960s Selkirk House on High Holborn with a new 21-storey tower would improve the ‘blight and severence’ of the area’s post-war planning. Advertisement Camden Market owner Lab Tech hired the architect to draw up plans for a new scheme containing 20,000m 2 of offices units and homes. The tower centrepiece will be a stepped office building with communa...

Amid the throng of 140,000 trade exhibitors and shoppers at the show in the spring of 2019, a team of North Carolina industrial recruiters sought out Pratt & Whitney representatives and had a moment to chat. Word had gotten out that a major net engine maker was looking to site a major new plant, and the economic development team from the Tar Heel state knew that landing the company would be big.  "It was more of a ‘fit and feel’ situation, as much art as science,” Chris Chung, president of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina and a leader of the recruiting team in Par...