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This week Dunham didn’t wish to give an estimate as to when the emails would be turned over, but she said her work in federal aviation safety has been very time consuming in light of the recent Boeing 737 crashes.

Dr. John Marshall Kilimanjaro, Sr., professor, civil rights activist, and founder of the longest continually published weekly newspaper in Guilford County, The Carolina Peacemaker, has died at the age of 88.

The students said the congressional map in place for the 2016 and 2018 elections — a map drawn by Republicans in Raleigh and ruled unconstitutional by federal judges last summer — unfairly splits the state university of 12,000 students.

A bipartisan group of House members want to change how the state grades schools. Schools now are awarded a letter grade based on achievement and growth. The grades are weighted 80 percent for achievement and 20 percent for growth. Schools that have low student achievement and continuously fail to meet growth are labeled low performing. Critics of the 80/20 school performance formula have long argued the model stigmatizes schools that predominantly serve economically disadvantaged students.

Barnes said that Rogers’ statement regarding the destruction of documents and removal of computers was “a lie” and he said it was one of several that Rogers told that night. “The only things I took out of there were personal items,” Barnes said. He said that no departmental records or documents or computers were removed. He also said that, if Rogers had actually bothered to check before making his false claims, he would know that. The former sheriff also said that he wasn’t going to let the accusation stand and said Roger’s was clearly trying now to go after his reputation.

The press has fallen into “gotcha” journalism with a “fad” trend of fact-check stories, he said at the end of his speech. “Fact-checking is substituted oftentimes for efforts to connect the dots and provide context about the larger truth,” he said.