RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 12 -- North Carolina Community College System issued the following news on Oct. 11, 2023: North Carolina community colleges and the North Carolina General Assembly are expanding a pilot program that provides career pathway opportunities to individuals with intellectual and development disabilities. In the budget passed earlier this month, the General Assembly approved nearly $4 million in recurring funds to create statewide regional support networks that help stud  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 12 -- McGuireWoods, a law firm, issued the following news release: McGuireWoods has bolstered its public finance team with the arrival of associate Connor Crews, who returns to the firm's Raleigh office after spending more than three years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Government, the nation's largest university-based training, advisory and research organization for public officials. At McGuireWoods, Crews works on all aspects of public f  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Oct. 12 (TNSres) -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: For the past couple of decades, tens of thousands of people living in rural Sri Lanka have been devastated by kidney failure due to unclear causes, also known as CKDu. Similar incidences of mysterious kidney diseases have emerged in tropical farming communities around the world. A massive field study of the wells supplying drinking water to the Sri Lankan communities, conducted by  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Oct. 12 -- LPL Financial LLC, a company that provides support from independent financial advisors to financial institutions, issued the following news release on Oct. 11, 2023: LPL Financial LLC announced today that financial advisors Jared West CFP(R), CPM(R) and Sandy Brown have joined LPL's employee advisor channel, Linsco by LPL Financial, to launch West Wealth Advisory Powered by LPL Financial. They reported having served approximately $390 million in advisory, b  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 12 -- The North Carolina Department of Commerce posted the following news release on Oct. 11, 2023: Today, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) awarded a $10 million grant to The Industrial Commons, an industry focused nonprofit in western North Carolina. The grant will help build a 40,000-square-foot green textile manufacturing hub in Burke County. "North Carolina has a rich legacy in textile manufacturing and innovation," said Governor Roy Cooper. "This inv  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 12 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2023: Today, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) awarded a $10 million grant to The Industrial Commons, an industry focused nonprofit in western North Carolina. The grant will help build a 40,000-square-foot green textile manufacturing hub in Burke County. "North Carolina has a rich legacy in textile manufacturing and innovation," said Governor Roy Cooper. "This investment  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 12 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: A new study of the microbial ecosystem in sourdough finds that using different types of flour fosters distinct bacterial communities, and that these differences contribute to the variation of sourdough aromas and flavors. "People bake sourdough all over the world, and our previous research shed light on the tremendous variation in the types of microbes found in sourdough starters, an  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news: Wiley Nickel, Jeff Jackson and Don Davis have remained silent about the antisemitism from North Carolina Democrats. Yesterday, House Democrats walked out of a vote to support Israel and Senate Democrats refused to condemn the barbaric acts of the Hamas terrorists. As former state legislators themselves, Nickel, Jackson and Davis have an obligation to set an example and speak out against antisemiti  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Oct. 12 -- The University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health issued the following news: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science (TCORS) $18.6 million to further research into tobacco product regulations. The center is led by Kurt Ribisl, PhD, Jo Anne Earp Distinguished Professor and ch  more

MORRISVILLE, North Carolina, Oct. 12 -- Raleigh-Durham International Airport issued the following news release on Oct. 11, 2023: Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority leaders joined dignitaries and regional business leaders Wednesday in a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new primary runway at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU). "As the signature project in the Airport Authority's Vision 2040 master plan, the new runway will stretch more than two miles and connect the Triangle to destinations  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 12 (TNSres) -- Wake Forest University issued the following news: The Americans most threatened by eviction: Young children (https://zwly9k6z.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F10%2F02%2Fupshot%2Fevictions-children-american-renters.html/1/0100018b15ad5429-41003ca8-14ea-4613-ba76-b4a067298b10-000000/FzsVeF33iRRnQtggMOJAcpreIzU=342) By Emily Badger, Claire Cain Miller, Alicia Parlapiano | The New York Times About a quarter of Black  more