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House Delays Override Vote On Cooper's NC Budget Veto
Republicans leading the North Carolina House have delayed a vote to attempt to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the GOP's state budget bill.
The override vote scheduled for Monday evening was put off until at least Tuesday.
House Republicans had been counting heads leading to Monday's session for enough Democratic support or absences. Minority Leader Darren Jackson said earlier Monday he was confident enough Democrats would uphold Cooper's veto.
Bill To Expand Medicaid In NC Surfacing In House Committee
House Republican leaders say it's time to debate Medicaid legislation originally designed to cover hundreds of thousands of low-income adults in North Carolina, even as Senate counterparts remain against expansion.
The House Health Committee scheduled a meeting Tuesday to discuss an expansion measure, which as initially written would place premium and work requirements upon recipients. Hospitals — not state taxes — would cover North Carolina's financial share.
Cooper Signs Bills Addressing Drug Dealers, Financial Skills
Legislation designed to give North Carolina prosecutors a new tool to convict drug dealers and to require public schools to teach more financial education is now law.
One bill makes it a felony to illegally sell drugs that result in an overdose death, punishable by up to 40 years in prison. Supporters say the "death by distribution" law will help fight the opioid epidemic, but critics say it will deter people from calling 911 during an overdose.
Another new law requires high school students to pass a personal finance and economics class to graduate. Some teachers worry this will detract from other instruction, but supporters believe financial literacy is critical to real-world success.
Runoff Voters To Decide GOP Nominee In Race To Succeed Jones
A primary runoff for the special election in an eastern North Carolina congressional district will decide the Republican nominee in the race to succeed the late GOP Rep. Walter Jones Jr.
Voting precincts are opening Tuesday in 17 counties that compose the 3rd District. Voters are deciding between Joan Perry of Kinston and Greg Murphy of Greenville. Both are physicians. They were the top two vote-getters in the 17-candidate GOP primary in April.
The winner advances to face Democrat Allen Thomas and two other candidates in the September general election. Jones died in February after 24 years in Congress.
Pool Worker Ordered Confederate Items For July 4th
Independence Day revelers at a Forsyth County pool were given wristbands adorned with a Confederate flag, which the county says wasn't recognized by the employee who placed the order.
Sage Magness tells The Winston-Salem Journal that she was visiting the Tanglewood Park pool over the Fourth of July weekend and was given a Confederate wristband. She later complained to the county.
Deputy county manager Damon Sanders-Pratt says the employee who ordered the wristbands to mark the holiday mistakenly thought they were patriotic and didn't understand what the "Stars and Bars" pattern symbolizes.
County parks and recreation officials said the wristbands were disposed of. Sanders-Pratt says the county has other wristbands to use at the pool.
Lawsuit: NC Prison Leaders Ignored Problems Before Slaying
North Carolina lawyers have two weeks to argue that the state's prison system and a half-dozen managers aren't responsible for a prison guard's fatal beating her father blamed on unaddressed problems including chronic understaffing and insufficient training.
Slain Bertie Correctional Institution Sgt. Meggan Callahan's father accuses the state Department of Public Safety and its administrators in a federal lawsuit of inattention to troubles that meant none of the four other guards who should have responded to a fire helped her.
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