CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, March 20 -- Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, issued the following news release: The STEM Careers Coalition - an alliance of industries and non-profit organizations partnering with Discovery Education to ignite student curiosity by creating equitable access to STEM content and career connections - today announced the availability of a new suite of free digital learning resources. Designed to ignite all students' curiosity in STEM, this new c  more

CHERRYVILLE, North Carolina, March 20 -- Gaston County issued the following news: Next week, N.C. Department of Transportation contract crews will start a project to replace the bridge on Carol/Milo Neal roads over Gilliam Creek. Contractor R.E. Burns & Sons Co., Inc recently earned the $961,839 contract. The road is scheduled to close Monday, March 25 and remain closed through the end of October. During the project, a posted detour will take drivers along Mary's Grove and Mary's Grove Church  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 20 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today asked Congressional leaders to give U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) approximately $300 million in funding to install equipment CBP already has to detect fentanyl in vehicles entering the United States. CBP has the equipment but cannot install it without additional funding. "I urge Congress to provide the funds to stop th  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 20 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein obtained a preliminary injunction against Canary General Contracting and Design and its operator Steven Sand and owner Khuneary Kim. This month, Attorney General Stein sued Canary for running an unlicensed general contracting business and defrauding homeowners in Charlotte. The injunction bars the defendants from performing or collectin  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 20 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Waste Management is accepting public comment on a draft Solid Waste Permit for a horizontal and vertical expansion at the Union County Construction and Demolition Debris Landfill. A public hearing is scheduled for April 3, 2024. The landfill, located at 2135 Austin Chaney Road in Win  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 19 -- Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: Today, Lt. Governor Mark Robinson pressed the Biden Administration to be more forthcoming with answers regarding the recent arrest of a potential terrorist suspect in Gates County, North Carolina. Following the arrest of a suspect after an hours-long standoff in Eure, North Carolina last week, the Gates County Sheriff's office reported receiving notice from U.S. Im  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 20 -- The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources issued the following news release: The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is pleased to announce that 10 individual properties across the state have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The following properties were reviewed by the North Carolina National Register Advisory Committee and subsequently nominated by the North Carolina State Historic Prese  more

ELON, North Carolina, March 20 -- Elon University issued the following news release: Elon University has selected Sarah Bunnell as the new director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) following a national search. Bunnell will lead the team at the center, which promotes effective, evidence-based and inclusive pedagogies and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She begins the new role on July 1. "Dr. Bunnell brings a long record of strong teaching, scholarship,  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, March 19 (TNSres) -- The University of North Carolina School of Medicine issued the following news release: A landmark study, led by Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD, professor of neurology and associate director of UNC's Biomedical Research Imaging Center, could alter how researchers interpret results from functional magnetic resonance imaging. The brain is an incredibly complex and active organ that uses electricity and chemicals to transmit and receive signals between its s  more