Name: Nifong's Full Statement At Criminal Contempt Hearing
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Description: Former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong makes a statement, in which he offers an unqualified apology, at his preliminary hearing on possible criminal contempt charges.

President Joe Biden landed in the Triangle on Tuesday to kick off his administration's Investing in America tour in an effort to revive American manufacturing.



President Joe Biden kicks off Investing in America Tour in Durham, tours Wolfspeed facility

Joe Biden speaks at Wolfspeed in Durham

Officials are still planning the district's first phase of physical security projects, which would go before the school board in the fall.

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Brandan Bryant is wanted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, attempted murder and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Rocky Mount police search for man suspected of Sunday morning shooting outside nightclub

Rocky Mount police said they have warrants for Brandan Bryant, 35, for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, attempted murder and possession of firearm by a felon. Photo courtesy of Rocky Mount Police Department.

The family of a fallen Raleigh police officer has been blessed with a mortgage-free home.

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Police believe the stabbing stemmed from a workplace confrontation that happened between two men Monday

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Former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong makes a statement, in which he  offers an unqualified apology, at his preliminary hearing on possible criminal contempt charges.

Nifong's Full Statement At Criminal Contempt Hearing

Mike Nifong

You have to see it to believe but on Monday, the wedding officiant was none other than the stuffed "Cocaine Bear" at the Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington.



Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today to bear witness the happy couple Alexander Venturino and Armando Elizondo of Pike County. The efficient y'all look so good. I could eat your faces off the cocaine bear himself. The whole thing started when Griffin Van Meter, the owner of Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall saw the movie Cocaine Bear in theaters and decided to make the main character nicknamed Pablo Escobar. The story new mascot we put out there that cocaine bear was interested in marrying people and they reached out to us and the rest as they say was Booger Sugar History Escobar swamped out his white bricks for a black top hat as Alexandra and Armando both dressed in wedding, appropriate white stuff, exchanged vows and Cokie, the bear even came back to celebrate the nup jewels. I like it a lot. It's nice. The bear is pretty cool. It's only bear like that as the first couple to tie the knot in front of cocaine bear. They say this will definitely be a story to tell the grandkids by all the cocaine I ate in blue. I now pronounce you husband and wife. Y'all may eat each other's faces? Well, is it N?

'Cocaine Bear' officiates wedding in Kentucky

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Meteorologist Amy WTH in the W r severe weather center, a pretty nice day out there today, but we do have some rain that is headed in our direction. We'll have scattered showers moving in after the evening commute later on tonight. So just a 20% chance for rain from five o'clock to seven o'clock, a 30% chance for rain by eight o'clock and a 40% chance for some showers by nine o'clock. So here's a look at future cast again. Most of the evening commute will stay dry with the exception of southern parts of Virginia. So maybe Mecklenburg County and Virginia getting a few showers during the evening commute by eight or 8 15, some scattered showers moving in from the north and west. We have widespread move in after 10 o'clock tonight and while you're sleeping, we'll have widespread rain, maybe a few isolated thunderstorms, but we do not anticipate anything severe. And by four or five o'clock Wednesday morning, the rain starts to move out of the area so we shouldn't have the rain during the morning commute, but the roads will likely still be wet as far as how much rain we could get with the system moving in tonight, anywhere from about 4/10 to maybe three quarters of an inch of rain. So some decent rain headed our way overnight tonight, maybe helping to wash away some of the pollen. We'll go with an 80% chance for rain overnight. Tonight, we do not have rain in the forecast, Wednesday or Thursday, Friday, late Friday night, we have a 30% chance for rain and then a 40% chance for some scattered light rain showers through the day on Saturday, especially the first half of the day. Temperatures are in the upper sixties for today. Low sixties Wednesday. So it is cooler heading into Wednesday, 70 for the high Thursday, mostly sunny Friday. We have the Durham Bulls home opener. It looks like most of the game is going to be dry, but maybe at the very end, there could be some light rains. You might want to take the light jacket just in case 78, the high Friday, Saturday, it is going to be windy and it is going to be warm with a high of 81. Some light rain possible, especially the first half of the day and then it's cooler Sunday, plenty of sunshine. But our high temperature just 67°.

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In visit to Durham, President Joe Biden talks about his administration's focus on jobs, economic growth. Biden toured a Wolfspeed facility in Durham on Tuesday.

President Biden talks about job growth, economic progress in Durham

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Good afternoon. I'm Tina Selon Cash with the daytime lottery drawing for Tuesday, March 28 2023. The first Carolina pick three number today is one second pick three. Another one. Third winning number is nine and our pick three. Fireball number is two. Joining me for this afternoon's drawing is our auditor from Thomas and Gibbs. Now it's time for the Carolina pick four. So check your tickets. Here we go. Good luck. First winning number five. Second winning pick four is three. Third winning number one. Our fourth pick for today is nine and our pick four. Fireball number is seven. The North Carolina Education lottery has contributed over $9 billion to education and thanks for your support. Get the winning numbers every day at three and again at 11 22 every night. Thanks for playing.

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President Joe Biden is expected to highlight a workforce preparation partnership between Wolfspeed and Durham Technical Community College, which has graduated 161 students since 2020.

I recuse myself. So you guys have any questions for me? Great. We appreciate everything you've done for this. No, no, but the bill pass and the work that's coming in here for us. I mean, literally, we've created, you know, millions of jobs. I mean, we, we looked at 800,000 manufacturing jobs. That's more manufacturing job. We've created any prison in an eight year term. It because you guys, you guys stuck with me. It not a joke. You guys stuck with me and we came over the last line.

Joe Biden tours Wolfspeed in Durham

Air Force One lands at Raleigh-Durham International Airport as President Joe Biden arrives in the Triangle to tour a Wolfspeed facility in Durham and talk about job growth.

<p>Yes we I would say wait till it taxes on hold hold on I think I can do audio until it's a taxi. You just then obviously yeah they were so bad. It was like he got caught in the door somehow so I guess. Ok forward what? Mhm. Yes. Hey man I was trying to get you. There was an on this when you did I was trying to tell them. Yeah he did win. Ok. Ok I got you um yeah John can show me year as you mentioned that stay home ho chi 12 O Newscast brief message and we got yeah idea important attendance there in the Toyota announcement in in that respective trip. This telling me the only will be out in. No last September was a $5 billion investment and no that's correct. Ok. Yep I can hear you. Do you guys want me out of the shot or in the shot? Mic check 12, check, check 12 mic, check 12 on channel two, check check 12 in I Yeah I'm gonna just stay to the back I think so that we don't miss that shot. I was just telling them. I'm saying what? Because no out never the LA well, as you can see, he just, he got off the plane. OK. Just let me know. Yeah. And hey, it's Valerie Foi, right? Fox, the congresswoman pushing, pushing. I just wanted to make sure the pronunciation was correct. Keith gave me a yes. Valerie Foy and Wiley Nicco I believe also got off the plane with him. Oh, on more. Ok, Michelle, you can see the President Biden right there talking to Governor Cooper right now to his left are the members of Congress from this area. Valerie Foy and Wiley Nickel. They rode on Air Force one. They flew down here with the president from Washington on this trip where they will go over to Wolf Speed to talk about the Chips Act and the production of chips and the manufacturing that's happening, the investment going on here in our region. You can also see here on the tarmac just outside of Air Force one, the mayor of Durham Elaine o'neill, as well as the county commissioner chairwoman Brenda Howard. And they've been talking with the president here for a good five or six minutes or so. Air Force one landed about 15 minutes, 20 minutes or so ago. Taxied its way over here. It looks like they are getting ready to move on their way. They will head over to wolf speed about five miles from here. That's about an eight or nine minute drive for most of us, but of course, they clear the roads for the president. So it will be a lot faster there. He will to the facility that manufactures semiconductor chips and they will talk about all of the investments going on here in our area. But once again, you can see President Biden, he got off Air Force one wearing his signature avi haters sunglasses, walked down the steps of Air Force one to be greeted here by Governor Roy Cooper. So again, we're getting ready for the motorcade to take off from here. You can see the beast as they call it right in front of the president. That is the motorcade car that he will get in to make his way over to wolf speed. Governor Roy Cooper walking his way now along with our members of congress from the area of Valerie, you see there, they'll be riding over to wolf speed. It looks like Governor Cooper is getting in the motorcade in the presidential limousine with the president. So they will obviously have some things to discuss on that trip over to wolf speed. We will have continuous coverage from the site there. Sarah Krueger is over there and we will have updates for us throughout the afternoon. Michelle. Thank you other members of the traveling.</p>

President Joe Biden arrives at RDU to kick off tour

Air Force One leaves Joint Base Andrews for Raleigh-Durham International Airport as President Joe Biden heads to Durham on Tuesday, March 28.

Air Force One leaves for RDU

More than 100 guns and 11 kilos of fentanyl were seized in an Aryan prison gang drug trafficking bust.

Authorities collected large amounts of guns, drugs and money in this operation. One of the defendants is accused of distributing those drugs here in the South South. Just one part of an international operation. Good morning. Local state and federal officials gathered in Tacoma this morning to announce a major victory. I'm extremely proud to say, thank you to our state federal partners. We needed this and we appreciate our partnership with you. Thank you agents seized massive amounts of drugs, guns and money last Wednesday in a multi state takedown operation in Washington and Arizona indicted 27 defendants. Us. Attorney Nick Brown says the operation was the result of months of investigation into a drug ring with connections to the Aryan family, a white supremacy group active in Washington state prisons. Brown called the operation insignificant. Approximately 1.9 million doses of fentaNYL and more than £230 of methamphetamine, acting DEA special agent Jacob Galvin says that's enough fentaNYL to kill everyone in Seattle and Tacoma and poison an additional 500,000 people. Us Attorney Brown said he's not only concerned with the drugs coming from Mexico but the guns that are going to Mexico. Brown says 225 firearms were seized throughout the course of this investigation. Robert Hammer of Homeland Security says many of those weapons could have made their way to Mexico to land in the hands of cartels. Brown says that's unacceptable to see all these weapons as special agent Hammer said go down to Mexico where the cartels are engaged in daily violence and people are dying on a daily basis. And knowing that those weapons are principally coming from the United States of America is a significant problem that we have to address. Tacoma police chief Avery Moore says this kind of collaboration with federal authorities is vital in combating crime just because you can't see what's going on, doesn't mean nothing is going on. We are constantly committed to our goal to make this city the safest in the country and this is one step towards that.