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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No. 25 North Carolina to test mettle vs. Blake Hinson, Pitt
There have been indicators that No. 25 North Carolina is getting right into a groove, and now after a greater than every week layoff, the Tar Heels have one other likelihood to indicate their enchancment.
North Carolina will start the sizable portion of its Atlantic Coast Convention schedule by visiting Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon.
“I really feel like we’re in an incredible state of affairs and our group is unquestionably battle-tested,” Tar Heels guard Caleb Love stated. “It is good for us when our again is towards the wall and the way we struggle again. Something thrown at us, we will overcome it.”
North Carolina (9-4, 1-1 ACC) has gained 4 video games in a row. Pittsburgh (9-4, 2-0) shall be enjoying its ACC residence opener.
The Tar Heels have displayed a extra intense nature in latest video games.
“Motivating them to be at their finest,” coach Hubert Davis stated.
The Tar Heels started the season at No. 1, however they have been all the best way out of the rankings by early December following a four-game shedding streak. They spent three weeks out of the ballot.
North Carolina ahead Armando Bacot has raised his degree the previous couple of video games, averaging 27 factors in these two outings.
“I feel he has been at his finest,” Davis stated. “He is enjoying with a starvation and a thirst. He is actually enjoying laborious and getting the ball in the correct place. He has been actually particular, not simply offensively however defensively as effectively.”
Pittsburgh’s Blake Hinson obtained co-ACC Participant of the Week honors for his efforts final week in an 84-82 victory at Syracuse. The switch from Mississippi racked up 25 factors and 13 rebounds to spice up his team-leading averages in each classes (17.2, 7.4).
The Panthers, who additionally personal an ACC highway victory at North Carolina State, are driving a three-game successful streak.
“No one got here right here to be simply 2-0 (within the ACC),” Hinson stated. “That is what I envisioned after I signed as much as play ACC basketball.”
Pittsburgh has racked up 10 or extra 3-point baskets in 5 of its previous seven video games. The Panthers will flip consideration to defending the defensive glass after Syracuse had 15 offensive rebounds.
“We’ve to be higher there,” Pittsburgh coach Jeff Capel stated. “… We have continued to work and get higher.”
The one widespread opponent for the groups is Michigan, which beat Pittsburgh 91-60 on Nov. 16 in New York after which misplaced to North Carolina 80-76 final week in Charlotte, N.C.
The Tar Heels pulled out an in depth recreation towards Ohio State on Dec. 17 earlier than upending Michigan in one other tight contest.
“We belief each other to go forward and make a big-time play when it issues,” North Carolina guard RJ Davis stated.
Pittsburgh gained the one assembly final season, topping the host Tar Heels 76-67 in a Feb. 16 recreation that on the time put North Carolina’s postseason prospects in severe jeopardy. After that consequence, the Tar Heels misplaced solely as soon as extra till falling within the nationwide championship recreation to Kansas.
Amongst Pittsburgh gamers from final season’s matchup, solely John Hugley IV and Jamarius Burton performed within the recreation in Chapel Hill.
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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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