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North Carolina Student Charged With Bringing Guns On Campus
A North Carolina university student has been arrested on charges of bringing guns on campus and threatening mass violence.
The High Point Police Department said in a statement officers responded Tuesday to reports of a student with two firearms in a High Point University dorm. University officials say another student reported him.
The police news release says 19-year-old Paul A. Steber, a freshman from Boston, was charged with two felony counts of having a gun on campus and a charge of making threats of mass violence.
State Worker Raises Get Final Approval By NC Legislature
The North Carolina General Assembly has sent four state employee and law enforcement pay bills to Gov. Roy Cooper's desk.
The measures finalized on Wednesday with House votes are part of a Republican strategy to move portions of the two-year state budget Cooper vetoed in June that are likely to receive broad stand-alone support.
Cooper hasn't said whether he'll sign the legislation, which gives 2.5 percent annual raises to rank-and-file state employees, troopers, correctional officers and State Bureau of Investigation agents. Correctional officers also would get pay incentives for working in certain prisons.
Bill Carrying Out Approved Victims' Rights Amendment OK'd
The General Assembly has agreed to legislation that carries out a new amendment to North Carolina's constitution expanding rights of crime victims.
The Senate agreed unanimously on Wednesday to changes made by the House in the measure, which provides details to implement the amendment also known as "Marsy's Law."
Last year, voters approved the amendment that gives crime victims a right to updates on court proceedings and to be notified if the person accused of the crime is released from custody. This year's measure lays out which additional crimes trigger those rights and the process by which a victim can assert those rights.
Judge Says Student With Down Syndrome Didn't Get Appropriate Education
A North Carolina judge has ruled in favor of a couple who argued that Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools didn't do enough to help their special needs daughter.
Quinn Cronin, who has Down Syndrome, entered Whitaker Elementary School last year as a six-year-old kindergartener. Soon after though, she was in private school.
Her parents say the public school system didn't support their child's presence in a traditional classroom.
Now an administrative law judge has agreed with the family, saying the school interfered in their plans for Quinn to learn beside peers without special needs.
Her father, McNeil Cronin, says testimony showed school administrators had pre-determined that Quinn should be moved.
School system officials released a statement saying the district has more than 1,400 professionals in the Exceptional Children division who work to help students with special needs.
North Carolina House Rivals Agree Gun Laws Need Look
The debate between two main candidates in the country's only still-undecided congressional district touched on how to tackle gun violence.
Democrat Dan McCready and Republican Dan Bishop agreed Wednesday night that action is needed to tackle mass shootings across the country, including one at Charlotte's public university campus in April that killed two and wounded four.
Bishop says he doesn't rule out prohibiting some deadly weapons and is willing to at least debate red-flag laws. Those laws allow police and family who see potential deadly trouble to ask a judge to temporarily order a person's guns confiscated.
McCready said he "absolutely" wants red-flag laws. He says he also would require everyone who buys guns to undergo background checks, eliminating a loophole that requires the checks for purchases at stores but not private sales.
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