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A 16-year-old North Carolina student suspended for using the term “illegal alien” in class is officially taking legal action against the school district for “harsh punishment” and “false accusations of racism.” According to the student’s mother, Leah McGhee, in April, an English teacher at Central Davidson High School in Lexington gave a vocabulary assignment that involved the word “alien.” In …

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is cautioning professors and faculty members against withholding students’ final grades after students expressed concerns some professors were going to do so in an apparent protest against the university. After anti-Israel demonstrations sprang up on the campus, university administrators took action to restore order on the campus. Students who participated in the …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Officer Joshua Eyer was honored Friday with a procession and memorial in downtown Charlotte. “What a beautiful experience it has been to see this community come together in support of the ones who chose every day to protect us, even though most of us don’t deserve it,” Charlie Sardelli, Eyer’s best friend of 15 …

It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century’s worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. But when asked at a news conference about the lightning speed of the changes, the Rev. Effie McAvoy took a longer view. “Oh, it didn’t take days, honey,” she said. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH VOTES TO LIFT …

The bereaved wife of Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas M. “Tommy” Weeks, who was among four law enforcement officers killed last week in a shootout at a wanted suspect’s Charlotte home, spoke of her husband’s killer before hundreds gathered for his Monday memorial service, including U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. “This tragedy was the result of someone who did not have …

FIRST ON FOX: The conservative, “woke-free” beer company that launched last year hoping to rival Bud Light will host an event Tuesday at a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill fraternity house to celebrate the actions of the students who defended the American flag from anti-Israel protesters on campus earlier this week. Dubbed the “Frat Boy Summer Kickoff,” the event will …

A pilot and his passenger avoided injury Wednesday evening when their single-engine Cessna made an emergency landing on a beach in New York. Video footage shows the Cessna 152 coming in to land on Cedar Beach in Mount Sinai, Long Island, at around 7:30 p.m. as the sun is setting over the horizon. The plane, with its propeller spinning slowly, …

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at988 or 1-800-273-TALK(8255). North Carolina authorities are reportedly investigating the death of Mica Miller, the 30-year-old wife of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Pastor John-Paul Miller. Robeson County officers reportedly located Miller’s body on April 27 in the Lumber …

Charlotte, North Carolina law enforcement and the community are grieving after four officers were killed and four others were wounded during a shootout earlier this week. Tunnel to Towers founder Frank Siller said on “Fox & Friends” that the organization will help the families of the fallen officers by paying off their families’ mortgages. “All of them are married. All …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A routine law enforcement operation in Charlotte, North Carolina, that left four officers dead is “highly unusual,” according to a former U.S. Marshals task force member. A deputy U.S. Marshal, two North Carolina Department of Corrections officers and a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) officer were fatally shot in the line of duty on Monday afternoon in east …