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Following North Carolina's expansion of Medicaid, many in the state's Spanish-speaking community found accessing reliable and culturally sensitive information about Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act difficult. The new health hotline, NC Salud, is designed to help.

There were five gun-related homicides in Winston-Salem last week. And early Monday morning, there was a drive-by shooting into a house occupied by multiple children under the age of 10. 

The Board of Commissioners also approved a resolution to put a quarter-cent sales tax increase on the ballot this November.

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders are appealing portions of a federal judge's order this month that blocked several state laws that restrict how abortion pills can be dispensed.

A Gastonia man is being charged with murder after a shooting in Winston-Salem left an 18-year-old dead and three others injured.

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a North Carolina masking bill that previously removed a pandemic-era exemption that allowed people to mask in public for health reasons. That provision was later changed after pushback to include language that protects masking for health purposes. But Cooper said his veto of the bill Friday was mostly for a different reason. Cooper and Democrats objected to a campaign finance provision tacked onto the end of the bill that could allow wealthy donors to give money to federal political committees that can then donate to state parties.

The deal with Risant is subject to regulatory approval. Neither party disclosed the financial terms of the agreement. 

N.C. A&T's newly appointed chancellor James Martin II says he wants to "keep his foot on the gas" when it comes to expanding programs and opportunities for students at the nation's largest HBCU.