SUPPLY, N.C. — A day after confirming he wouldn’t be a candidate for Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday at a public event that he’s excited that Democrats “have a lot of great options for her to choose from.”
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Michigan women take down No. 6 North Carolina in Jumpman Invitational
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dealing with a top-10 group on a giant stage, the Michigan ladies made a serious assertion within the Queen Metropolis.
The Wolverines beat sixth-ranked North Carolina on Tuesday evening, 76-68, within the opening recreation of the inaugural Jumpman Invitational.
Michigan improved to 11-1 because of red-hot taking pictures within the first quarter and a robust end. Leigha Brown completed with a game-high 25 factors. Laila Phelia added 20.
The Wolverines went to the Elite Eight in final season’s NCAA Match, and up to now look each bit like a group able to making one other deep run.
They actually did on Tuesday, making 12-of-16 pictures within the opening quarter to determine management contained in the Spectrum Middle, house of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets. An early second-quarter flurry pushed Michigan’s result in 23.
North Carolina acquired inside six late within the fourth, however Michigan did sufficient to shut it out.
It was girls first on the Jumpman Invitational, which options two nights of doubleheaders among the many first 4 colleges to signal sponsorship offers with Jordan Model in basketball and soccer. The Michigan males will play North Carolina on Wednesday evening (7 p.m., ESPN), with Florida and Oklahoma matching up within the different two video games.
On Tuesday, Juwan Howard and the Michigan males’s group confirmed up within the second quarter, after a group dinner, to help the ladies.
They noticed a Michigan group proving it’s nonetheless a nationwide drive, even with out program legend Naz Hillmon. Michigan’s offense was on hearth a lot of the primary half. The protection was sturdy all through, limiting the Tar Heels to 32 % taking pictures. Brown completed 9-of-15 from the sphere and added eight rebounds and 4 assists, hitting a number of huge pictures late to seal the win.
Michigan’s main scorer on the season, Emily Kiser, completed with 9 factors on 3-of-10 taking pictures. Freshman Chyra Evans tallied seven factors and 9 rebounds.
North Carolina fell to 9-2, with its different loss coming to a different Massive Ten group, Indiana. Deja Kelly matched her season common with 15 factors however made simply 2-of-13 pictures, largely attributable to Phelia’s protection.
Michigan resumes Massive Ten play on Dec. 28 at Nebraska. Michigan, presently ranked nineteenth, will probably be greater by then.
Tuesday’s recreation acquired slightly dicey for Michigan late. On one North Carolina possession, Deja Kelly drew a foul, Brown was hit with a technical, and Carolina made a 3. The end result was 5 factors and Michigan’s lead was minimize to 62-53 with 8:17 left. The margin was once more single digits, with Michigan struggling towards North Carolina’s zone protection, earlier than Brown hit a pull-up jumper to beat the shot clock. Maddie Nolan adopted together with her first 3. Michigan led by 13 with 5:38 to go.
The margin was all the way down to eight, the smallest it had been because the first quarter, when Brown delivered once more, burying a foul-line jumper off the dribble.
Kiser scored subsequent, with Michigan’s protection ensuring there was no wild comeback.
The primary half went largely Michigan’s manner. Phelia’s wide-open nook 3 made it 58-39 with 5:27 left within the third earlier than Michigan had one other dry spell. Carolina made it attention-grabbing — a layup and 5 Deja Kelly free throws minimize Michigan’s result in 12 and introduced the pro-Tar Heel crowd to life. However Brown’s sturdy rebound in site visitors and lengthy outlet to a streaking Phelia resulted in two made free throws. Michigan led 60-48 getting into the ultimate quarter.
Brown scored Michigan’s first 5 factors of the second quarter, together with an acrobatic left-handed end for an and-one. Freshman Alyssa Crockett drained two 3s — the microphones on the basket amplifying the swishes — to cap a 12-0 run and make it 47-24 Michigan halfway via the second quarter.
North Carolina went 5 minutes with no level earlier than an 8-0 run. Kiser, who needs to be one of many school basketball’s leaders in costs taken, drew one on two consecutive possessions. Nonetheless, it was Michigan’s flip to go chilly. They, too, went 5 minutes with no level. Evans’ layup within the closing seconds ended the drought and made it 49-32 at half.
Michigan dominated the primary quarter. Brown match a long-range cross via a good window to Evans for a fast-break layup to cap a 6-0 spurt and provides Michigan an 11-6 lead.
The Wolverines outscored North Carolina 23-9 over the ultimate 4 minutes of the primary quarter to take a 35-20 lead. Brown and Phelia mixed for twenty-four within the first, outscoring North Carolina’s total group.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Republican-led House quickly overrode three of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes on Wednesday.
The House votes, largely along party lines, sent the overrides to the Senate, which does not meet this week. Veto overrides require supermajorities from both legislative chambers to become law. Since gaining supermajorities last year, GOP lawmakers have blocked all of Cooper’s vetoes.
The first bill allows the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles to issue title certificates for all-terrain and utility vehicles, and expands the types of roads accessible for modified utility vehicles to include all roads with speed limits of 55 mph or less. Cooper said in his veto statement that the law would endanger people on state highways because off-road vehicles don’t have as many safety features.
The second piece of legislation changes several laws involving tenancy, notaries and small claims court. What mostly prompted Cooper’s veto was a prohibition against local ordinances that aim to stop landlords from denying tenancy to people whose rent money comes mostly from federal housing assistance programs.
The last bill, among other things, blocks state agencies from taking payments in central bank digital currency, which is similar to cryptocurrencies, but with value determined by a country’s central bank. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve would be liable for the currency’s value, and the agency is still studying whether it can manage its risks to the cost and availability of credit, the safety and stability of the financial system, and the efficacy of monetary policy.
Cooper called the legislation “premature, vague and reactionary,” and urged the Legislature to wait to see how it works before passing laws to restrict it.
There are two more vetoes that still require action from both chambers. Lawmakers are scheduled to reconvene in early September.
Thousands of school buildings in North Carolina, including many in Wake County, do not have carbon monoxide detectors.
On Wednesday, state schools leaders will look at how to address that. Talks are happening inside the state education building about ways to keep your student safe.
On Wednesday, we’ll get a breakdown of what it would take to install carbon monoxide detectors in schools.
State education leaders will be reviewing a report Wednesday afternoon. It shows most North Carolina schools don’t have them.
In Wake County, about 200 school buildings don’t have the devices. That’s more than a third of school buildings in the county. It would cost about $2.1 million to get them installed. It would cost $40 million to install them in schools across the state.
Nikki James Zellner with CO Safe Schools said not having these detectors puts children at risk.
“We think that we’re protected when we’re going into these establishments,” she said. “We think that our children are protected, but in reality, we’re relying on institutional standards that haven’t really been updated in a significant amount of time.”
Cooper, barred by term limits from seeking reelection this year, had been among roughly a dozen potential contenders that Harris’ team was initially looking at for a vice presidential pick. He’s been a surrogate for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid and now for Harris.
“I am going to work every day to see that she is elected,” Cooper told WECT-TV. “I believe that she will win, and I look forward to this campaign because she has the right message and she is the right person for this country.”
In making his decision, Cooper confirmed Tuesday that he was concerned in part about what Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson could do if he left the state to campaign as part of the Democratic ticket. The state constitution says that “during the absence of the Governor from the State … the Lieutenant Governor shall be Acting Governor.” Robinson is running for governor this fall.
“We had concerns that he would try to seize the limelight because there would be a lot, if I were the vice presidential candidate, on him, and that would be a real distraction to the presidential campaign,” Cooper said.
Cooper pointed to when he traveled to Japan last fall on an economic development trip. As acting governor at the time, Robinson held a news conference during his absence to announce he had issued a “NC Solidarity with Israel Week” proclamation after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack inside the country.
Cooper also said Tuesday that he informed Harris’ campaign “early in the process” that he would not be a candidate, but that he didn’t reveal publicly that decision at first so as not to dampen enthusiasm for Harris within the party.
“My name had already been prominently put into the media and so I did not want to cause any problems for her or to slow her great momentum,” he told WRAL-TV while in Supply, located about 160 miles (258 kilometers) south of Raleigh. Cooper said he announced his decision when “there had begun to be a lot of speculation about the fact that I was not going to be in the pool of candidates, and in order to avoid the distraction of the speculation.”
Tuesday’s event at Green Swamp Preserve celebrated a $421 million grant for projects in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland to reduce climate pollution. The money will be used to preserve, enhance or restore coastal habitats, forests and farmland, Cooper’s office said.
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