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Dean's List: In a first, UNC System board officer roles to be held entirely by women

Dean's List: In a first, UNC System board officer roles to be held entirely by women
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Senate approves bill requiring sheriffs honor federal immigration requests to hold people in jail

The state Senate moved quickly to pass legislation requiring local sheriffs to hold people they arrest at the request of federal immigration agents. Republicans supporting the bill say requiring sheriffs to hold people they arrest and whose legal status they cannot determine for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to pick up would make communities safer. Opponents […] The post Senate approves bill requiring sheriffs honor federal immigration requests to hold people in jail appeared first on NC N ....

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NC Senate votes to override Cooper's veto of gun rights bill

NC Senate votes to override Cooper's veto of gun rights bill
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She married at 13. Why she's asking NC lawmakers to end child marriage

RALEIGH, N.C. At age 13, Judy Wiegand says community leaders gave her “suggested guidance” to marry the 16-year-old father of her unborn child. It was the 1970s. She remembers violence, difficulty raising her child, and her own childhood being taken from her, she testified to a North Carolina House judiciary committee on Tuesday. Now 57, Wiegand hoped those memories would stay in her past. . ....

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North Carolina senators proposed changes to child marriage laws


Danielle Battaglia
The News & Observer
RALEIGH, N.C. Senators walked back a proposed bill that would ban child marriages in North Carolina, but amended it to match the state s laws on statutory rape.
Senate Bill 35, in its original form, would have banned anyone under 18 from marrying.
When we first filed this bill, one of the things we were looking at is the fact that North Carolina has become a destination place for marriage for folks who are marrying children and for sex trafficking, Sen. Danny Britt said. What we wanted to do was come up with a bill that would take us off that list and protect these children. ....

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