North Carolina
NC Groups, Voters Urge Justices to Avoid Redistricting Case
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Related Press
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina advocacy teams and voters who this 12 months persuaded state courts to overturn the legislature’s congressional redistricting plan requested the U.S. Supreme Court docket on Friday to keep away from listening to arguments on whether or not such courts should be curtailed in reviewing U.S. Home maps.
Attorneys representing the state additionally joined with outdoors attorneys to file 4 authorized briefs with the justices urging them to reject a petition from Republican legislative leaders to take up the problem.
By means of their very own personal attorneys, the GOP lawmakers already requested the court docket to formally rule on whether or not a provision within the U.S. Structure delegating to state legislatures the way of holding U.S. Home elections signifies that state judges cannot void congressional district traces created by the Basic Meeting.
The authors of Friday’s filings say the Supreme Court docket already has dominated earlier than that some decision-making on congressional redistricting will be delegated by a state’s residents. The identical holds true when the North Carolina legislature handed legal guidelines twenty years in the past setting in place the authority of courts to evaluate redistricting plans that they accredited, the attorneys wrote.
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State legislative leaders petitioned the justices in March, per week after the U.S. Supreme Court docket refused to stop a congressional map adopted by a panel of three trial judges and upheld by the state Supreme Court docket from getting used on this 12 months’s elections.
However 4 of the U.S. Supreme Court docket justices signaled they have been open to revisiting the scope of state courts’ capability to change congressional maps sooner or later. It is unclear when the court docket will determine whether or not to take up the case and maintain oral arguments. A choice might have broad results on elections and redistricting nationwide. Main races have been held this week primarily based on the court-imposed maps for the 14 districts.
The map, which will likely be used for this 12 months solely, took place after the state Supreme Court docket in February struck down congressional boundaries accredited by the GOP-controlled legislature. In a 4-3 choice, the court docket’s Democratic justices declared the traces have been partisan gerrymanders that violated the state structure. The legislature tried its hand at a substitute plan, however the trial judges stated it wasn’t ok and made changes.
The unique map accredited by the legislature in November probably would have resulted in 10 seats for Republicans and 4 for Democrats. The court-ordered plan provides Democrats a great likelihood to win at the least six seats this fall.
Attorneys for the legislative leaders wrote that the U.S. Structure makes clear that congressional redistricting rests solely with state legislative our bodies. A 1916 U.S. Supreme Court docket choice discovered that the Elections Clause doesn’t repeal restrictions imposed by the folks in state constitutions “to which state legislatures owe their existence,” reads the transient from the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters. The group was amongst those that challenged the Basic Meeting’s authentic map within the fall.
“The U.S. Structure doesn’t grant impunity to a state legislature for violations of its state structure just because the laws pertains to congressional elections,” wrote attorneys representing Widespread Trigger, one other litigant. Attorneys representing the state come from a division led by Democratic Lawyer Basic Josh Stein.
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3 men charged in connection with woman’s death at Cook Out restaurant in North Carolina
Two men have been charged with murder in the death of 29-year-old Davicia Jean Ann Lee at a Cook Out restaurant in Durham, North Carolina, last month. A third is facing a weapons charge.
Two men have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman at the fast-food restaurant Cook Out in North Carolina.
Twenty-three-year-old Alexander Kenyon Carlton Jr. and 19-year-old Calvin Jerade Spence Jr. have been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 29-year-old Davicia Jean Ann Lee late last month in Durham, the Durham County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release on Friday.
A third man, 18-year-old Jamari Treyvon McKnight, is charged with one count of going armed to the terror of the people, which basically means terrorizing someone with a weapon like a gun.
USA TODAY could not immediately find attorneys representing the three men.
The shooting occurred just after 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the Cook Out on South Miami Boulevard, according to the sheriff’s office. When deputies arrived at the scene, they found Lee dead.
The sheriff’s office called the shooting “an isolated incident” that happened after shots broke out following a fight, WNCN-TV reported.
Arrests made in fatal shooting of Davicia Jean Ann Lee
Detectives arrested Spence and Carlton on Thursday and took them to the Durham County Detention Center without bond on charges of carrying a concealed gun, felony conspiracy, going armed to the terror of the people and first-degree murder, the sheriff’s office said.
McKnight was also taken into custody and arrested Thursday night on misdemeanor going armed to the terror of the people, according to the sheriff’s office. The Morrisville police arrested him and he is currently being held in the Wake County Detention Center until his first court appearance, the agency added.
The investigation into Lee’s homicide is ongoing, while all findings are now in the process of being turned over to the Durham County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution, according to the sheriff’s office.
The USC Trojans are in pursuit of flipping two class of 2025 recruits, Nela Tupou and Alex Payne. Can the Trojans flip one or both of these players before national signing day?
Nela Tupou Player Profile
Nela Tupou is a 6-4, 220 pound tight end/defensive end out of Folsom, California. He is rated as a three-star recruit and ranked as the 43rd-best ATH in the class of 2025 per 247Sports.
Tupou committed to the Utah Utes in February of 2024, but he just recently visited USC last weekend for the Trojans’ 28-20 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
On3 is now predicting that Tupou will likely flip this commitment from Utah to USC.
Alex Payne Player Profile
Alex Payne is a 6-5, 265 pound offensive tackle out of Gainesville, Florida. He is rated as four-star recruit and ranked as the 16th-best offensive tackle in the class of 2025.
Payne committed to the North Carolina Tar Heels in January of 2024, but he as well as Tupou, visited USC last weekend.
In 247Sports recruiting analyst Tom Loy’s updated crystal ball prediction, he had Payne flipping his commitment from North Carolina to USC. Loy has a good track record of predicting where recruits will end up as his all-time hit rate for predicting recruits’ final destinations is 81.64 percent.
USC Bolstering Up Offensive Line to Go Along With Weapons
One of the glaring holes for the USC Trojans this season has been the offensive line. For USC to bounce back next season, they will have to get much better in the trenches. This has been exposed in their first season in the Big Ten. Landing Tupou, who can both be a factor in the run blocking scheme as a blocker, and Payne, one of the top tackle prospects in the country, would go a long way for next season and the future of the program.
Barring a flurry of transfer portal decisions, the Trojans will have an abundance of skill position talent coming back next season.
Freshman running back Quinten Joyner has been the second best back this season behind senior running back Woody marks.
Four of the Trojans five leading receivers are sophomores. Makai Lemon, Zachariah Branch, Ja’Kobi Lane, and Duce Robinson all have shown flashes of potentially being a number one wide receiver next season.
Add in the Trojans starting sophomore quarterback Jayden Maiava and they have one of the youngest teams in the Big Ten. If USC continues to address the offensive line in the last days of the 2025 recruiting cycle and in the transfer portal this offseason, the Trojans could be a dangerous team next season.
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Sledding in Haw Creek Dec. 9, 2018
The Tracey family enjoys the snow in Haw Creek with some sledding.
Angeli Wright, Asheville Citizen Times
Some school systems in Western North Carolina are closed Friday, Nov. 21, due to winter weather.
- Avery County Schools: Closed, remote learning day.
- Graham County Schools: Closed, workday for staff.
- Madison County Schools: Closed, optional teacher workday.
- Mitchell County Schools: Closed, remote learning day.
- Watauga County Schools: Two-hour delay.
- Yancey County Schools: Closed, remote learning day.
This story will be updated
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