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May 2024

Posted inEnvironment

Charlotte the Stingray Isn’t Pregnant After All

by Assembly Staff May 31, 2024July 1, 2024

Owner tells WLOS: “This was not a scam. This was not anything made up, but people do that. People have their own thoughts.”

Posted inSports

Is the Long Reign of UNC Women’s Soccer Over?

by Matt Hartman May 31, 2024June 5, 2024

There are several signs of trouble in Anson Dorrance’s famed program.

Posted inPolitics

Mayor For Life

by Johanna F. Still May 30, 2024January 17, 2025

Wilmington’s Bill Saffo has sailed through more than two decades in public office.

Posted inCulture

Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies Rises From the Ashes

by Ren Larson May 29, 2024June 12, 2024

The center has named a new director and restarted some programs.

Posted inEnvironment

What Is Really Going On With Charlotte the Stingray?

by Emily Cataneo May 28, 2024February 24, 2025

A Hendersonville aquarium blew up the internet with the announcement of a “miracle” pregnancy.

Posted inHigher Education

UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Promises Rules for Recording Professors

by Jeffrey Billman May 24, 2024February 5, 2025

After The Assembly reported that administrators had secretly recorded a professor’s lectures, the provost promised new policy.

Posted inFood

An Alamance Hot Dog Legend At a Crossroads

by Hanna Raskin May 24, 2024April 27, 2025

Zack’s Hotdogs is a case study in what happens when a decades-old restaurant changes hands.

Posted inCourts

The Moore County DA is Under Fire—From His Wife

by Michael Hewlett May 23, 2024May 24, 2024

The wife of the district attorney for Moore and Hoke counties alleges he’s been terrorizing her since she asked for a divorce.

Posted inFood

Here’s the Beef

by Kathleen Purvis May 22, 2024April 27, 2025

State measures taken to address the shortage of local meat during the pandemic have had a longer shelf life than anyone imagined. 

Posted inPolitics

No Place Like Home

by Evey Weisblat May 20, 2024April 27, 2025

After the state abruptly closed a Fayetteville veterans home, years of problems came to light.

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