HENDERSON â Longtime Vance County high school basketball coach Wilton Baskett passed away Saturday at the age of 62, leaving behind a storied legacy that includes 402 wins, six regular season championships, six conference tournament titles and four conference Coach of the Year awards.
Vance County menâs basketball coach Chad Wilson was stunned to hear about the sudden passing of his mentor and said that he would not be in his current position without the guidance and encouragement Baskett offered when he worked with him as a player and an assistant coach.
âCoach Baskett really shaped a lot of who I am not just as a coach, but as a man,â Wilson said. âHe taught me how to carry myself and how to just be a good person in society.â
2021 Starts With An Attack On The U.S. Capitol
It was a grim week in the United States of America. It began with the revelation that President Trump had pushed a top Georgia official to overturn the state s presidential election results. By Wednesday, the president was riling up supporters at a rally outside the White House, scores of whom marched down the street and stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress was in the process of certifying the election that Trump lost.
Five people died.
Now authorities have begun to file charges against insurrectionists as calls for Trump to leave office by way of resignation, the 25th Amendment or a second impeachment grow louder, even with just 10 days left in his term. Meanwhile, the president is becoming increasingly isolated, as tech giants limit his use of major social media platforms, fearing his words could incite more violence.
A composite photo of former Gov. Pat McCrory (left) and current Gov. Roy Cooper (right) during the final gubernatorial debate on October 18, 2016.
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A group of congressional Republicans this week attempted to overturn election results in a handful of states, using baseless claims of fraud surrounding absentee mail ballots.
Their efforts did not include North Carolina because President Trump narrowly won the state.
But some of the issues cited in states like Pennsylvania over expanded absentee mail ballots were also at play in North Carolina. The 2020 fight over mail voting in North Carolina capped off a years-long fight over voting access and allegations of fraud.
On Wednesday, supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented effort to stop the counting of votes for the electoral college. Where do we go from here? We sit down with reporters and analysts and get their reaction.
Congress had to interrupt its count of electoral college votes on Wednesday when a mob smashed windows and rushed into the building. Lawmakers huddled under their seats and donned gas masks while police tried to push back the rioters.
As authorities regained control of the situation, Congress resumed its count overnight. On Thursday morning, it formally certified Joe Biden’s victory with 306 electoral votes, compared to 232 for Trump, paving the way for Biden’s inauguration on January 20.
A sombre Biden called the Capitol riots an unprecedented assault on American democracy. Even if few would have guessed the situation would devolve into what it did, the scenario wasn t entirely unforeseeable either, said Thomas Gift, associate professor of political science at University College London.