North Carolina
North Carolina judge sends prospective juror to jail for refusing to wear mask in mask-optional courthouse
A North Carolina decide despatched a potential juror to jail after he refused an order to put on a masks, regardless of there being no mandate on the books.
“I by no means thought I might present as much as jury obligation and find yourself behind bars. So it occurred,” Gregory Hahn informed Tucker Carlson on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Decide Charles Gilchrist, who was first nominated to the bench by former Democratic Gov. Bev Purdue, remanded Hahn to custody after he refused the decide’s order to place a masks on. The Harnett County Courthouse in Lillington reportedly doesn’t have a masks mandate. Carrying masks, Hahn stated, was elective on the courthouse, and North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper lifted his statewide mandate months in the past.
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Hahn, who’s reportedly a Navy Veteran who served as a member of the President’s Honor Guard at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery, famous there have been 98 jurors and that clerks informed the pool that Gilchrist personally required masks in his courtoom.
“We have been in [an assembly room] for about 20 to half-hour, shoulder-to-shoulder, with three-quarters of us not sporting masks,” he recalled.
“So the virus — if there was virus on the market – contaminated us anyway. So I used to be known as after they known as roll name, I made eye contact with the clerk and she or he stated, ‘I want you to return over right here for not sporting the masks.’”
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After being summoned to the bench, Hahn recalled telling Decide Gilchrist that Cooper dropped the state mandate Might 4, and that Harnett County does not have one.
Gilchrist knowledgeable Hahn the penalty for contempt might be a $500 effective and 30 days in jail. When Hahn refused to placed on a masks, he was ordered to spend 24 hours on the Harnett County jail.
“It was the worst 24 hours of my life. I used to be refused to make a cellphone name to my minor youngster who’s dwelling,” he stated.
“I requested to be excused since I wasn’t even chosen for jury obligation but; it was nonetheless orientation. He may have exempted me. There was 98 those that confirmed up for jury obligation and I believed I used to be simply going to be in a holding cell for twenty-four hours.”
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As a substitute, that night, he was requested to placed on an orange jumpsuit and given a group of toiletries.
Dropping monitor of time and in a cell with one other inmate, he recalled being known as exterior by jail authorities and passing guards watching “Monday Evening Soccer.”
Hahn stated he due to this fact was capable of contend it was nighttime, after which they put him in a solitary cell till the following afternoon.
Host Tucker Carlson stated the decide “seems like an entire lunatic,” hoping that he might be pulled from the bench after the incident.
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“You’d have been higher simply promoting fentanyl to kids as a result of that is now allowed,” the host stated, including that Gilchrist seemingly singled Hahn out due to the present governmental behavior of attempting to separate the disobedient from the obedient.
“I can inform simply by taking a look at you. You are in all probability not a Biden voter. And my guess is I am simply guessing right here. My guess is that the decide may really feel that, too. Do you assume they could have had one thing to do with it? You are not obedient.”
North Carolina
School closings, delays in Western North Carolina, Wednesday, Jan. 15
Amazon van slides off a road snowy Knoxville street
Video captured the moment an Amazon van slid off a snowy road in Knoxville.
Some school systems in Western North Carolina are closed or operating on delays Wednesday, Jan. 15, due to winter weather impacts.
- Avery County Schools: Two-hour delay.
- Cherokee County Schools: Two-hour delay.
- Clay County Schools: Closed, optional workday.
- Graham County Schools: Two-hour delay.
- Jackson County Schools: Two-hour delay.
- Macon County Schools: Franklin area closed, remote learning day. Highlands School, three-hour delay. Nantahala School, two-hour delay.
- Madison County Schools: One-hour delay.
- Mitchell County Schools: One-hour delay.
- Swain County Schools: Two-hour delay.
- Transylvania County Schools: Two-hour delay.
This story will be updated
North Carolina
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North Carolina
FEMA extends transitional housing program for North Carolina residents displaced by Hurricane Helene
FEMA is extending its Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) Program to Jan. 25 for residents of North Carolina, according to a Monday announcement.
The program, which was set to expire on Tuesday, funds temporary housing, like hotel or motel rooms, for thousands of people displaced from their homes by Hurricane Helene.
The federal assistance gives households extra time to find alternative housing solutions or to make repairs to their homes.
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More than 3,000 families are eligible for the program’s extension, according to FEMA.
The agency said people checking out of their temporary housing on Tuesday are returning to habitable homes or have withdrawn from FEMA assistance.
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More than 10,000 households accepted temporary shelter in hotels participating in the TSA program following the aftermath of the hurricane, FEMA said last month, but most have since moved to longer-term housing.
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Each county also has its own shelters and nonprofits to assist people who are not eligible for FEMA’s program.
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