by WSIC News | Feb 3, 2023 | WSIC State News
Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) has co-sponsored the No Budget, No Pay Act. The bill would prohibit lawmakers from being paid if Congress fails to pass the annual budget resolutions and appropriations bills by the start of the Fiscal Year (October 1st). The legislation was...
by WSIC News | Feb 3, 2023 | WSIC State News
There was a heated exchange Wednesday at the organizational meeting of the US House Judiciary Committee over whether or not the Pledge of Allegiance should be recited at the beginning of US Senate House sessions. Rep. Deborah Ross, D-North Carolina 02 quoted a Supreme...
by WSIC News | Feb 3, 2023 | WSIC State News
This week, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues, introduced a bill establishing a bipartisan, bicameral joint select committee on Afghanistan to conduct a full investigation into President Biden’s failed and tragic withdrawal of U.S. forces from...
by WSIC News | Feb 2, 2023 | WSIC State News
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has awarded Balfour Beatty a $242.35 million design-build contract to deliver improvements to Interstate U.S. 70 between the Havelock Bypass and east of Thurman Road in Craven County. The project will upgrade the...
by WSIC News | Feb 2, 2023 | WSIC State News
Videos circulating on social media appear to show the principal at Anson High School putting a student in a headlock choke-hold, and now the Wadesboro Police Department tells WSOC TV it’s looking into the incident. The incident happened Tuesday and started between two...
by WSIC News | Feb 2, 2023 | WSIC State News
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com), a global industrial leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion products, has acquired the assets of American Roller Bearing Company (ARB), a North Carolina-based manufacturer of industrial bearings. ARB’s...