"I'm the first person to see him and when I saw him, I thought it was a dummy gun, but then I saw the bullet clip in his hand and the bullets were shining," the pastor told CNN.
Here’s a trend I’d like to see take off in 2016 – minding your own business. In the social media era, that may be impossible, but it has become more and more obvious that folks are getting their entire lives off watching and commenting on the perceived downfall of others. Case in point: North Carolina […]
Maleah Williams was outside her apartment playing with Christmas gifts alongside friends when shots rang out in the complex.
The family of 11-year-old La’Darious Wylie is celebrating his life after he died saving his 7-year-old sister in a fatal hit-and-run in North Carolina.
High school football is huge in the south, especially in North Carolina. In 1964 in the small town of Hickory, history was made when the all-Black Ridgeview Panthers went undefeated, winning all twelve games in that season. What makes the Panthers’ run even more astounding is that their opponents never once scored on them. Ridgeview […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A shark bit a 68-year-old man several times Wednesday in waist-deep water off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, officials said, the seventh in a record-breaking year of shark attacks for the state’s coastal waters. A hospital spokeswoman had no report of his condition Wednesday afternoon. The man suffered wounds to his ribcage, […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After a third-grader tearfully recounted how another boy had called him “gay” during gym class, teacher Omar Currie chose to raise the issue during story time by reading his students a fable about a prince who falls in love with another prince, ending with a happily-ever-after royal wedding. That decision in […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two brothers wrongfully imprisoned for three decades in the killing of an 11-year-old girl say pardons will help them move on “with not just a clear conscience, but a clear name.” It will also help them adjust to life on the outside with hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation. The […]
(DALLAS – May 7) Tom Joyner, the nationally syndicated radio personality and philanthropist, is set to give the commencement address at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C. Joyner, host of the Tom Joyner Morning Show and founder and chairman of the Tom Joyner Foundation, is scheduled to deliver his words of inspiration at 8 […]
A solider gave his 8-year-old son a yearbook photo to remember when he surprised him in the most adorable way possible. Army Corporal James Bass surprised his…
NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — A frantic and bloodied mother whose three sons were killed in a knife attack jumped from an upstairs window and ran across the street for help, according to neighbors. A couple, who, like the suspect and victims, were Burmese refugees, was startled Tuesday night by pounding on their door by […]
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…
