WFAE A line of cars waiting for gasoline stretches into the street Tuesday in Hemby Bridge, southeast of Charlotte.
I’ll admit it. The other day I was making fun of all the people waiting in line for gas. At one point Charlotte had more empty gas pumps than anywhere else and I tweeted that we were the panic capital of America, the Usain Bolt of panic, so far ahead that we could run the last stretch backwards and still win.
“The whole thing’s gonna be over in a few days,” I said.
My wife – my loving, wise wife – replied: “That’s what they said about the pandemic.”
WFAE There was gasoline at this ExxonMobil station in south Charlotte but also a long line of cars waiting for it.
If you ve been slacking on social etiquette over a year of social distancing, now’s a good time to brush up. In the biggest step back toward “normal” since the coronavirus pandemic began, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week that fully vaccinated Americans can ditch their face masks in most situations.
It didn’t take long for North Carolina to embrace the new guidelines. On Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper lifted the state’s indoor mask mandate for most situations and fully eased capacity limits on businesses. The move came as more than half of North Carolina’s residents have gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and after 14 months of a pandemic that’s claimed more than 12,800 lives in the state.
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NPR A week after the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr., protesters continue to march in the streets of Elizabeth City, shouting, “Release the tape - the WHOLE tape!”
This week began with all eyes locked on North Carolina as the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. by Pasquotank County deputies became the latest flash point in a seemingly endless stream of news and outrage over the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police.
A lawyer for the family, who viewed a 20-second snippet of body camera video on Monday, called the fatal shooting during an arrest an execution. An independent autopsy showed Brown was shot five times, including in the back of the head, and the FBI began a civil rights probe into the case. The local prosecutor said deputies were hit by the car Brown was driving as the shooting unfolded, and a Superior Court judge denied requests to immediately release body camera footage to the public, saying he thought it could hinder the investigation. Family mem
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