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Unbridled stupidity doesn’t take time off for the holidays. Thanks to a mid-pandemic church event, a North Carolina town is being forced to worry about a spike in wholly avoidable COVID-19 cases during an already stressful holiday season. According to NBC News, a “holiday celebration” at First Baptist Church in Hendersonville has now led to at […]
North Carolina authorities reportedly pepper-sprayed a group of peaceful demonstrators marching for voting rights. According to News & Observer, the incident took place Saturday in Alamance County where about 200 people participated in the “I Am Change Legacy March to the Polls” in downtown Graham. The crowd began marching at the AME Church and made their way to the county courthouse, where a voting rights […]
A man who was indicted on charges of child pornography may have been plotting to assassinate Joe Biden prior to his arrest. According to court documents made public on Thursday, 19-year-old Alexander Hillel Treisman was taken into custody back in May after bank employees reported a suspicious white van parked in front of the building. Officers had the vehicle towed after […]
Fort Bragg’s official Twitter account was deactivated Wednesday afternoon, following a series of lewd messages posted to the page. Twitter users noticed that around 4:30 p.m. ET, the military base’s verified account began responding to another account featuring adult content. User @Quinnfinite10 had shared a post about an individual who had complained about the pubic hair displayed on her OnlyFans page. […]
COVID-19 continues to become one of the world’s biggest medical mysteries as it claims the life of a seemingly healthy North Carolina teenager. Appalachian State University sophomore, Chad Dorrill, died on Monday after contracting COVID-19, The Charlotte Observer reports. His mother, Susan Dorrill, stated in a now-private Facebook post that her son didn’t exhibit any known symptoms […]
Throughout The South, people are tearing down statues commemorating Confederate leaders. Now, the citizens of Durham, North Carolina have an appropriate replacement for these monuments. On Saturday, graffiti artist JEKS shared his completed mural of North Carolina’s own, J. Cole. According to JEKS’ Instagram post, the mural was done in collaboration with iconic hip-hop photographer, Jonathan Mannion, turning one of Mannion’s […]
On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced that they would be transitioning from in-person classes to virtual classes, effective August 19, after reporting 135 new positive COVID-19 cases just a week into the fall semester. Those 135 positive tests (composed of 130 students and five employees) came about as a result of four clusters, […]
On Tuesday, Michael Jordan (well, more accurately, Michael Jordan and his crew) reeled in a 442.3 pound marlin and, in doing so, gave us one of the few opportunities we’ll ever have to provide you with fishing content. What a moment. The massive fish was pulled in during the second day of the Big Rock blue […]
A pug named Winston has become the first known U.S. canine to test positive for the novel coronavirus. According to WRAL, the virus was detected this month during a study at Duke University. Winston’s owners, the McLean family, participated in the school’s coronavirus research study at the beginning of April, after the parents began exhibiting mild symptoms in mid-March. Researchers determined […]
In a scene far more in line with the WWE’s brand of wrestling than, say, the type of wrestling you would see at high schools worldwide, a pissed off dad stormed the mat to tackle his son’s opponent after his kid was violently hurled to the ground with an illegal move. Here, check it out. […]
