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NHHS/NHCS
Local
New Hanover High School lockdown lifted, looking for suspect
Rachel Keith
NHHS was on lockdown for a suspected gun on campus this morning.
President Joe Biden came to Wilmington on May 2 to announce $3 billion in funding to remove lead pipes from the nation's water systems.
Kelly Kenoyer
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WHQR
Local
President Joe Biden visits Wilmington to announce funding to replace lead pipes
Kelly Kenoyer
Boosterthon at one of the district's schools. These raise thousands of dollars for schools.
Wrightsville Beach Elementary/NHCS
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Wrightsville Beach Elementary/NHCS
Local
A closer look at NHCS parents' groups, and the significant differences in their fundraising capacity
Rachel Keith
The Newsroom
  • Granny Flats: The secret solution to the housing crisis
    The affordable housing crisis is national in scope, but it’s uniquely painful in the South because of low wages and surging demand. So what are some creative solutions to this rapidly growing and intractable problem? Backyard cottages? Flipping hotels into rental housing? Or building out job training programs? We asked smart people in the housing space what they consider the most effective strategies to improve housing with help from the New Hanover Community Endowment.
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A group of about a hundred mostly middle-aged protestors stand and sit on the grass outside Leland town hall. They're solemnly watching a speaker, who's just out of frame to the right. One of the protesters holds a sign that reads, "No land purchase, no salary increases, no $1,500,000 fire truck, no 55 foot tall buildings."
  1. Leland town council to vote on new budget in two weeks
  2. Editor's Note: Questions about Woody White's rebuke of DEI elicit muted responses, and a little snark
  3. DEQ submits Human Health Risk Assessment on 1,4-Dioxane
  4. National Bike Month: Vision Zero, and a new tool evaluates media coverage of bicycle and pedestrian deaths
  5. Nearly every house in Wilmington could be allowed an ADU starting in May
  6. Checking the record: NCDEQ never held Chemours accountable for missing its 'barrier wall' deadline
  7. CFR: Interesting housing updates; the future of DEI
  8. Former CFCC department chair: 'Who's behind the wheel?'
  9. CFCC employees cited pressure to fabricate information prior to accreditation warning, compliance staff 'nonrenewed'
  10. A new technology to remove PFAS from drinking water is undergoing a pilot in Wilmington
  11. The question of Master's pay for North Carolina teachers
  12. CFPUA could be a guide for how utilities can meet the EPA's new drinking water standards
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
  1. Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Little Women
  2. STNL! Featuring: The Benny Hill Ensemble
  3. Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Rissi Palmer and September Krueger
  4. Comedian Meghan Cook on her origins in stand-up, and advice for aspiring comics
  5. Cape Fear Conversations: Health Equity
  6. Docutime Film Festival celebrates its 20th year
  7. Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Grahamland Amusements
  8. Cinematique Presents: The Beast
  9. Cinematique Presents: Problemista
  10. Cinematique Presents: Wicked Little Letters
  11. Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Dorothy Gillespie documentary
  12. Robert Bellamy, aka ScaleHamHawk da Poet, talks about his work, his muse, and his name
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
  • The Cape Fear Rundown podcast is written and produced by Camille Mojica.
    CFR: Interesting housing updates; the future of DEI
    Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Kelly joins us to talk about a joint city and county homelessness meeting, and then Ben joins us to go over diversity, equity and inclusion and it's potential fate locally.
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National News
  1. Woman denies being an 'outside agitator' in Columbia University protests
  2. The perspectives of protesters at the University of Texas at Austin
  3. Is it easy for migrants to enter the U.S.? We went to the border to find out
  4. After a serious car accident, a man pulled over — and continued to help for days
  5. 'I did not feel like a human': Brittney Griner tells NPR about detention in Russia
  6. Sierra Nevada records snowiest day of the season from a brief but potent storm
  7. Some campuses are going virtual and canceling commencement as protests continue
  8. How a genetically modified purple tomato was mistakenly identified as non-GMO
  9. Driver dies after crashing into White House perimeter gate, Secret Service says
  10. Mystik Dan wins the Kentucky Derby by a nose
State News
Cumberland County Schools celebrates Native American Senior Students during the Eagle Feather Ceremony at Grays Creek High School on May 4, 2023. Photo: Tony Wooten
  1. Native American tribes across the U.S. attend graduation feather ceremony in North Carolina
  2. BPR Weekly News Round-Up: Buncombe Co. budget, Malvern Hills pool, Indigenous justice
  3. Slavery by another name: New NC historical marker acknowledges post-Civil War convict laborers
  4. There's still a final challenge to NC's photo ID voting law. The federal trial starts Monday
  5. NC Republican congressional candidate drops out just days before runoff election
  6. More than $480K raised for UNC-Chapel Hill frat party, but who is behind the GoFundMe?
  7. UNC Chapel Hill social justice hub ‘closed indefinitely’ by administrators after pro-Palestine protests
  8. Bittersweet joy as Methodists in Charlotte repeal LGBTQ bans
  9. NC voucher expansion debate highlights starkly different approaches to education spending
  10. UNC faculty discuss next steps following protests on campus
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