Updated December 15, 2020 6:24 p.m. EST
By Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
Dunn, N.C. One young man mourns his 4-year-old son while another sits in jail, accused of the abuse that claimed the child s life.
Tracey Jackson said that he had custody of his 4-year-old, Jaylen Boykin, two years ago and had been living in Delaware.
Jackson says that his son s personality was adorable. Everybody that met him fell in love with him. He was a character. He really was. He was like an adult in a child s body.
At the urging of the Harnett County Department of Social Services, he agreed to let his son spend some time with his mother, Kimberly Boykin.
Updated December 10, 2020 6:32 p.m. EST
By Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
Fayetteville, N.C. As Cape Fear Valley Medical Center waits for its first shipment of a coronavirus vaccine, the hospital has put up tents in the emergency room parking lot, anticipating a surge in patients.
The tents went up late Wednesday and early Thursday, and Fayetteville firefighters spent the day ensuring they were properly secured. In order for us to maintain social distancing [and] keep our patients safe, we re opening up the tents here so we can have overflow, usually waiting space right now for folks to be able to wait, said Dan Weatherly, the hospital s chief operating officer.
By Sarah Krueger, WRAL Durham reporter, & Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
Hillsborough, N.C. Three weeks after state health officials started cataloging the spread of coronavirus in individual counties through a color-coded alert system, only 18 of North Carolina s 100 counties remain in the lowest yellow zone, including Orange County.
While nearly half of the state is now in the red zone, with critical levels of viral spread and another third are rated orange with substantial spread, Orange County and the others still shaded in yellow on the map have managed to maintain better control of the virus locally as the number of infections and hospitalizations soar statewide.