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Funeral Set For Former US Sen. Kay Hagan
A service to remember former North Carolina U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan will be held this weekend in the city where she lived for decades.
Hagan family spokeswoman Sadie Weiner said Tuesday that Hagan's funeral service will be 2 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Greensboro. The church service is open to the public and will be followed by a visitation with the family.
Hagan died Monday at age 66.
Former Forsyth County Sheriff Ron Barker Dies
Former Forsyth County Sheriff Ron Barker has died.
Barker served as sheriff from 1990 to 2002.
The Thomasville native was a graduate of Wake Forest University.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports Barker started out as a science teacher and sports coach before entering law enforcement. He helped start the department's first homicide division and draw attention to crime prevention.
Relatives say Barker died Tuesday after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 86.
North Carolina Absentee Ballot Rule Changes Get Final Oks
North Carolina legislators have finalized changes to mail-in absentee ballot rules in response to a state investigation of a congressional race last year that led to a new election.
A compromise bill given unanimous approval on Tuesday by the state Senate also would restore permanently early in-person voting on the last Saturday before state elections. The House followed later with near-unanimous backing of the bill, which now goes to Gov. Roy Cooper's desk.
Multiyear Rate Option Sought By Duke Energy In NC Scuttled
Legislative allies of the nation's largest electricity company have given up this year on a proposal to let Duke Energy and other utilities seek multiyear rates from North Carolina state regulators.
House and Senate members who fashioned the negotiated bill weeks ago withdrew it on Tuesday, replacing it with a measure omitting the option for utilities to seek a key component of electricity rates for up to three years.
What's left is a provision to let utilities use bonds to pay for storm recovery costs.
Warren To Hold First North Carolina Campaign Event Next Week
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is holding her first campaign event in North Carolina next week.
The campaign announced on Tuesday that the Massachusetts senator will hold a town hall-style meeting Nov. 7 at Raleigh's Broughton High School.
A campaign spokesman also said more events would be announced soon for Warren in North Carolina, where Republican Donald Trump won the state's electoral votes by 4 percentage points in 2016.
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