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By A 1-Vote Margin, City Leaders OK Bid For GOP Convention
The vote was close, but city leaders in Charlotte have agreed to make a bid to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.
After a public discussion period Monday with more than 100 speakers and nearly one hour of debate among themselves, the Charlotte City Council voted 6-5 in favor of hosting the event.
Mayor Vi Lyles, Charlotte's first black female mayor, had led efforts to secure the convention, despite critics who decried the attempt because of President Donald Trump's statements denigrating minorities, Muslims, women and the LGBTQ population.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Receives $8 Million Research Grant
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has received a new $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The funding will be used to study the relationship between several things: Type 2 diabetes, being overweight or obese, and dementia and Alzheimer's.
The goal is to collect additional data on research that's been ongoing around the country since 2001.
Dr. Mark Espeland, professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, says the study is crucial because we're in the midst of a diabetes epidemic.
New Report Highlights Growing Compensation For Public University Executives
A new report shows that compensation continues to climb for public university executives.
The survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education finds UNC President Margaret Spellings is the 13th highest paid public university president in the United States. N.C State Chancellor Randy Woodson is not far behind, ranking 19th.
Spellings was paid just over $977,000 in 2017, while Woodson was compensated about $826,000.
The News & Observer reports Woodson's salary was inflated because of the terms of his contract, which allows for an annual stipend paid through a special University Leadership Fund at N.C. State, as well as performance bonuses.
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt was further down the list, ranking 67th with a total pay of just over $604,000.
Child Hit By Falling Bullet In Winston-Salem
Police say a child in Winston-Salem suffered minor injuries when someone apparently fired a gun into the air and the youngster was hit by a falling bullet.
Winston-Salem police said in a news release that the shooting happened late Saturday afternoon.
Police did not identify the child or release the age or gender. The news release said the child was hit in the head by a "falling projectile" that fell through a canopy covering a backyard swimming pool.
Winston-Salem police note it's illegal to fire a gun in the city limits.
Police Department Fires 2nd Captain In Part Of Beating Probe
Asheville's police chief has fired one of her captains for the second time in just three months.
Chief Tammy Hooper said she fired Capt. Mark Byrd on Friday because he lied and tried to undermine her and other police leaders.
The Citizen-Times of Asheville reports that Hooper said Byrd was dishonest about the timeline into the investigation into a police beating of a pedestrian in August.
Byrd's lawyer wrote back that he will fight the firing, saying it was intimidation and harassment and that Hooper leads a police department with severe management issues.
Hooper fired Capt. Stony Gonce in May, saying he tried to intimidate a lieutenant investigating the beating.
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