The Juvenile Reentry Employment Program serves Pitt, Pamlico, Craven and Carteret Counties and is a statewide model for reentry programs. Through vocational training and a network of nonprofits that provide housing and transportation, the goal is to reduce participants' likelihood of returning to the justice system.
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North Carolina will become the 39th state to offer access to medical marijuana with a dispensary run by the Eastern Band of Cherokee in Western N.C.
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Drier than normal conditions are expected to continue over North Carolina through much of May, according to long-term forecasts.
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The budget law enacted by the Republican-controlled General Assembly had planned for a slight decline in revenue from this fiscal year to the next, in part due to tax cuts, but new forecasts show an anticipated surplus of $413 million.
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Marines are famously meticulous about their uniforms. But for more than a year, they haven't always been able to wear the ones they're supposed to.
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Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department" is out today. But there's more to Swift than just her music. NPR's All Things Considered examines her cultural impact.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with hall of fame broadcaster Ernie Johnson, host of Inside the NBA, about the new faces of the NBA chasing championship hopes in this changing of the guard post-season.
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It's bound to catch some attention when a new Lennon-McCartney collab drops in 2024 — only this time, it's not John and Paul but their youngest sons, Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney.
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Arch-foes Israel and Iran are firing missiles at each other. But the unprecedented attacks on each other's territory appear — for now — not to have sparked an all-out war.
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After getting pushed out of late night by cancellation of his TBS show, O'Brien has been freed to fully entertain people exactly how he wants. His new special for Max, Conan O'Brien Must Go, is out.
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The modern study of starvation was sparked by the liberation of concentration camp survivors. U.S. and British soldiers rushed to feed them — and yet they sometimes perished.
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During his decades-long career, MacNeil reported on the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1986 and 1995.
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Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.