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Advocates: Judges' Redistricting Order Shouldn't Be Delayed
Advocacy groups and voters who've successfully sued so far in throwing out North Carolina's congressional districts because of partisan gerrymandering say federal judges shouldn't delay their order directing the legislature to draw new lines by next week.
Republican legislative leaders have asked both the three-judge panel that ruled against them and the U.S. Supreme Court to block the rewrite order while similar Wisconsin and Maryland cases are settled by Supreme Court justices.
Common Cause, the League of Women Voters and others on Friday told the three judges GOP lawmakers are making arguments nearly identical to those the judges rejected earlier. The groups say evidence is overwhelming against the Republican gerrymander.
Wake Forest Baptist Receives Alcohol Addiction Research Grant
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has received $8 million from the National Institutes of Health to study alcohol addiction. The grant will cover five years of research.
Scientists will study both humans and animals to better understand the brain before and after alcohol addiction.
Dr. Jeff Weiner is the co-director of the new center. He says this will be the only center in the country to focus on why some people are more vulnerable to alcohol addiction than others.
Weiner says less than 20 percent of people with alcoholism seek treatment. And of those that do, about 80 percent relapse in the first year.
He hopes the center's research will help develop better, more specialized treatments for alcohol addiction.
Barbecue Event In Lexington Cancelled
A well-known Lexington barbecue cook-off is cancelled for this year, a casualty of a massive fire that destroyed a historic furniture plant.
The Barbecue Capital Cook-off has been held in an area next to the city's former Lexington Home Brands furniture factory.
A massive fire destroyed the building in December. Now cook-off organizers say the clean-up won't be complete in time for the event, scheduled for late April.
Organizers say they'll bring the spring cook-off back in 2019.
3 Injured In Shooting After Suspects Break Into Home
Three people are recovering from wounds after criminals burst into and shot up a North Carolina home.
Police aren't saying whether the people hurt were the residents or those invading the home in Archdale, about 15 miles south of Greensboro. Two of those injured have been released.
Police say there was a fight and bullets flew inside the home after two people burst inside Sunday night.
Booty And Books: New Evidence Of Pirates' Interest In Both
Dead men tell no tales, but there's new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Blackbeard's flagship harbored books among the booty.
Researchers have discovered shreds of paper bearing legible printing that somehow survived three centuries underwater on Blackbeard's sunken vessel. After more than a year of research that ranged as far as Scotland, they identified them as fragments of a book about nautical voyages published 1712.
The conservators presented their findings at the annual meeting of the Society of Historical Archaeology in New Orleans.
Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, ran aground in Beaufort in 1718, and volunteers with the Royal Navy killed Blackbeard in Ocracoke Inlet that same year.
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