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A 3-year-old boy died after a lawnmower accident in Tabor City on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. 

<b>TABOR CITY, N.C.</b> — A 3-year-old boy died after being run over by a lawnmower in Tabor City on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

Mario Lewis Jr. was riding in the lap of an adult driving a riding lawnmower off West 3rd Street, Horry County coroner Robert Edge said. The adult stopped the mower and briefly got off. In that moment, Mario fell off, and the mower rolled forward over him.

Mario died of head injuries at Loris Community Hospital in Loris, S.C., Edge said.

No charges have been filed. Tabor City police were investigating the death.

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A Chatham County family says their dream home was built so poorly, they've been told by structural engineers it would be better to tear it down and rebuild rather than repair it.

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A 10-year-old boy was killed in a crash in an Apex neighborhood on Monday. Ayaan Vachery was riding a scooter through his neighborhood when he was hit by a vehicle.

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A top Republican state senator opened up to the public, and fellow lawmakers, about his belief that marijuana saved his life by allowing him to get through chemotherapy for cancer. He's sponsoring a bill to legalize medical marijuana, which just had its first state House hearing.

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A top priority for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the bill would let the nonprofit company move assets to a newly created holding company that would be further from regulators' reach.

Blue Cross reform bill easily clears NC legislature

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North Carolina Senate Bill 512 deals with nine boards and generally shifts appointments, and thus influence, from the governor to the General Assembly's majority party.

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Snakes are coming back into some people's yards. Falyn Owens with the NC Wildlife Resources Commission explains a few ways you can coexist with snakes.

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Daytime Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings are held at 3 p.m. daily. They can be seen as live or on-demand video.

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The House Education Committee will hold a discussion about Senate Bill 636, which aims to strip the NCHSAA of more of its authority to oversee high school sports in North Carolina.

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The House Health Committee will debate a bill to legalize medical marijuana — an important sign of life for the bill after being ignored last year despite its broad bipartisan support in the Senate.

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Caleb Love has two years of college eligibility remaining. After announcing he would leave North Carolina, he had initially committed to Michigan.

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N.C. High School Athletic Association Commissioner Que Tucker was at the legislative building in downtown on Raleigh on Tuesday, this time to speak out against the latest bill that seeks to diminish the organization's ability to manage high school sports in North Carolina.

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The N.C. High School Athletic Association has released the schedule and locations for the final state championship events of the 2022-2023 school year.