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Daughtry bows of NC-13 race; Knott will face Pierce Raleigh The runoff for the Republican nomination in the 13th Congressional District race is over before it began. Kelly Daughtry announced last Thursday on her Facebook page that she was suspending her campaign for the seat, meaning Brad Knott will face Democrat Frank Pierce in the general election. Knott conceded that former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Knott — which labeled Daughtry as a “RINO” and “no friend of MAGA” — made victory “no longer feasible.” She endorsed Knott in the post. Daughtry received more than a quarter (27.4%) of the votes in the 14-candidate primary in March, while Knott was second at 18.7%. She will still appear on the May 14 ballot. Rep. Wiley Nickel, the Democratic incumbent, did not run for reelection for his seat after redistricting tipped the new district to lean Republican. The new district is made up of Caswell, Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Lee and Person counties along with parts of Granville and Wake counties.
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Rivalry renewed Hurricanes defenseman Jalen Chatfield skates away following Rangers center Mika Zibanejad’s goal in New York’s 4-3 Game 1 win Sunday in the teams’ second-round NHL playoff series in New York. The Hurricanes and Rangers played Game 2 after press time Tuesday at Madison Square Garden, and Carolina will host Game 3 and 4 on Thursday and Saturday, respectively, at PNC Arena.
NC officials, candidates react to Biden’s Title IX change
High Point man charged with mailing threat to Georgia rabbi Macon, Ga. A High Point man has been charged in federal court with mailing a threatening postcard to a Georgia rabbi who had been outspoken in supporting a new state law that defines antisemitism. Ariel Collazo Ramos faces up to five years in prison if he is convicted of mailing threatening communications, federal prosecutors for the Middle District of Georgia said in a news release last Thursday. A grand jury indicted Ramos, 31, last month, according to court records, and the document was unsealed following his arrest. The indictment accuses Ramos of mailing a postcard in February to Elizabeth Bahar, the rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Macon. Written on the postcard, the indictment said, was a reference to the poison gas Nazis used to kill more than 1 million Jews during World War II as well as the words “Jews are rats.” It was not immediately known if Ramos had an attorney to represent him, and U.S. District Court records did not list one. The indictment said Ramos operated an online business from his home that sold “candles, postcards, and other products depicting racial, white nationalist themes.”
Republicans slammed the changes; Democrats failed to respond
Charlotte nonprofit details migration journeys, crossings Camino has received more than $560 million in federal funds By A.P. Dillon North State Journal
aid through multiple humanitarian projects he led in many countries, including Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, and the United States,” Camino’s website says. The group’s report, The Migrant Experience: A Journey of Hope, was published on Mar. 28, 2023. “Findings are presented in the sequence of a migrant’s journey to the US; pre-migration, pre-border crossing, crossing the border, post-border crossing, and settling in N.C.,” the report says. Per the report’s summary, the Camino team conducted a multisite study at the U.S.-Mexico border, collaborating with organizations on both sides, and examined partnerships with Border Servant Corps (BSC) and a Juarez migrant shelter by analyzing “de-identified data.” BSC operates various largescale shelters for asylum-approved migrants along the border through partnerships with
RALEIGH — A report by a Charlotte-area nonprofit engaged in assisting migrants offers details about migration journeys to the U.S. border with Mexico as well as a look at the partnerships, transportation and migrant demographics involved. The nonprofit is called Camino and focuses on Hispanic and Latino communities. The group’s website says it offers a “wide range of services, including but not limited to, general healthcare, behavioral therapy, upward mobility, professional development, and education.” The founder and CEO of Camino and Camino Church is Rusty Price. “Since Camino’s founding in 2003, Price has helped provide over $150,000,000.00 in See MIGRANTS, page A2
By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH —The Biden administration’s U.S. Department of Education finalized its Title IX rule change last month, adding “gender identity” as a protected class, opening the door for transgender women to play on women’s sports teams and use women’s spaces in schools. Republican North Carolina elected officials and candidates running for top state offices oppose the changes. “The Department of Education has placed Title IX, and the decades of advancement and protections for women and girls that it has yielded, squarely on the chopping block,” Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC-05), a Republican, said
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum on May 12, 2023, in San Diego.
See TITLE IX, page A3
Discrimination complaint against NCORR settled Black applicants claimed they were rejected from the ReBuild NC Homeowner Recovery Program By A.P. Dillon North State Journal
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in a statement. “This final rule dumps kerosene on the already raging fire that is Democrats’ contemptuous culture war that aims to radically redefine sex and gender. “The rule also undermines existing due process rights, placing students and institutions in legal jeopardy and again undermining the protections Title IX is intended to provide. Evidently, the acceptance of biological reality, and the faithful implementation of the law, are just pills too big for the Department to swallow — and it shows.” N.C. Rep. Dan Bishop (R08), who is leaving Congress to run for N.C. attorney general, said if he’s elected, he will join other state attorneys general in fighting the rule. “I certainly will join in and I’ve already checked with some colleagues who are sitting Republican attorneys general, and I know that there are plans to challenge this
RALEIGH — Legal Aid of North Carolina has settled a housing discrimination complaint against the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency, which oversees the program helping hurricane victims return to their homes. “Legal Aid of North Carolina is proud to announce this resolution, which reduces unnecessary barriers for owners in heirs’ properties to access crucial disaster relief funding, while also preserving the existing homeownership structure and keeping these properties in the family,” A.D. Skaff, supervising attorney
with Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Fair Housing Project, said in a release. “We hope that these revised policies can serve as a model for other disaster relief programs in North Carolina and CDBG-DR funded programs across the country.” Legal Aid of North Carolina is a “statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.” Per Legal Aid’s complaint, See NCORR, page A2
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