NC State Wire

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina legislature neared final approval on Thursday of its annual farm bill, which includes the creation of a streamlined method for hog farms to receive environment permits to convert liquid waste into consumer natural gas.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper named on Thursday a longtime legislative lobbyist and environmental policy adviser as his next secretary for the environment, after the state Senate did not confirm his previous choice.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina government budget proposal heavy on capital projects, saving reserves and tax cuts and distributes over $5 billion in federal COVID-19 aid received preliminary approval on Thursday from the state Senate.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ These North Carolina lotteries were drawn Thursday:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:

HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — A mother and her 3-year-old child were killed in a collision on a North Carolina road, the N.C. State Highway Patrol said.

The patrol said a car driven by Allison Faith Presley, 20, of Indian Trail, crossed the center line on N.C.

GRAHAM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been arrested after authorities say he shot at a deputy, a sheriff’s office said.

The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release on Wednesday that a deputy responded to a call late Tuesday night about a man with a gun at a location on old N.C.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ These North Carolina lotteries were drawn Wednesday:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Powerball" game were:

13-20-40-51-63, Powerball: 1, Power Play: 3

(thirteen, twenty, forty, fifty-one, sixty-three; Powerball: one; Power Play: three)

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A bipartisan effort to legalize marijuana for medical use in North Carolina got a legislative committee hearing on Wednesday. But it's unclear whether enough legislators are ready now to alter their views on pot to make it law.

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man is accused of killing his girlfriend, taking her body to Tennessee and asking a friend to help him dispose of it, police said.

High Point police said officers were called to check on Gianna Rose Delgado, 19, after getting information that she was assaulted, news outlets reported.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina would end offering supplemental benefits from the federal government to the state's unemployed in roughly a month under legislation finalized Wednesday by Republicans in charge of the General Assembly.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Local school leaders — and not state officials — would decide for next school year whether students and workers in K-12 schools must wear face coverings for protection from COVID-19 in legislation approved Wednesday by the House.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to charges that she stole money from her employer, the third time in a decade that she has been accused of embezzling funds from her job, prosecutors said.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's unemployment rate fell for the eighth consecutive month in May, the state Department of Commerce announced on Wednesday. The reduction appeared largely connected to a decline in the number of people actively seeking work.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina state government budget proposal written by Republicans that also would cut taxes by several billion dollars this decade cleared the chamber's finance committee on Wednesday.

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Members of the Lumbee Tribal Council are calling for a Gaston County high school to remove a mascot and logo that they call an inaccurate and derogatory representation of Native American people.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ These North Carolina lotteries were drawn Tuesday:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:

ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:

01-26-48-51-59, Mega Ball: 25, Megaplier: 4

(one, twenty-six, forty-eight, fifty-one, fifty-nine; Mega Ball: twenty-five; Megaplier: four)

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has told the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a letter that she will not join the faculty at its journalism school without tenure, a report said Tuesday.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Senate Republicans pushed their North Carolina government budget proposal through the chamber's largest committee Tuesday, rejecting Democratic critiques that the measure spends too little now and serves as a vehicle to sting the GOP's political rivals.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislation that would raise the minimum age to get married in North Carolina from 14 to 16 cleared a House committee on Tuesday.

The measure, which was approved unanimously by the Senate last month, also would prevent the young person's spouse from being no more than four years older.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A man has been arrested and charged in a North Carolina city’s fourth fatal shooting within a week, police said Tuesday.

Durham police said in a news release that its officers responded to a call of a shooting on Monday afternoon.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League has apologized to a Black player for a North Carolina team for a broadcast that misidentified a boy at her game as her 9-year-old son.

LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been charged in connection with a road rage incident in which a woman was shot in the face, a sheriff's office said.

In a news release, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said deputies dispatched to a location on U.S.

PINK HILL, N.C. (AP) — A 9-month-old infant drowned in a bathtub at home on Sunday, according to a North Carolina sheriff’s office.

The Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that deputies went to a home in Pink Hill in response to a call about a child not breathing.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ These North Carolina lotteries were drawn Monday:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:

01-13-32-38-42

(one, thirteen, thirty-two, thirty-eight, forty-two)

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were: