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The Roadmap of Need highlights swaths of the state with big challenges. In the Charlotte region, Union County stands out as having unusually good conditions while spending relatively little on public education.
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Mecklenburg County tax assessor Ken Joyner told county commissioners on Wednesday that the line between the two counties is in dispute because the maps they’re using don’t match. The problem first surfaced in 2001.
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The Union County school board unanimously approved a new calendar Tuesday morning that starts classes on Aug. 9, almost three weeks earlier than the Aug. 28 date set by the state's school calendar law.
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The Union County school board voted Monday morning to follow state requirements to quarantine students exposed to COVID-19, but district staff still won't take part in contact tracing. Union County is one of three North Carolina districts that doesn't require masks.
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North Carolina's top health official, Dr. Mandy Cohen, told the Union County school board it could face "legal action" if it doesn't change the district's quarantine rules by Friday. But the board has no plans to meet.
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Students and staff who don't have a positive COVID-19 test or symptoms should "return to work or school immediately," the district said.
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Authorities have arrested and charged a man wanted for months in a shootout that left a popular North Carolina teacher and another man dead. The Alamance County sheriff’s office says the U.S. Marshal Service arrested Gar-yon-ded-weh Stepney on Monday.
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The Union County Sheriff’s Office said the helicopter was reportedly cropdusting fields when it became tangled in power lines.
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Union Academy Addresses Safety, Retaliation And Employee Screening After Teacher's Death In ShootoutUnion Academy Charter School held a special board meeting Thursday to explain how it’s handling security and background checks after a teacher died in a shootout that law officers say involved a stash-house robbery.
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When Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson described last week’s shootout that killed a Union County charter school teacher, he referenced Mexican drug cartels and called the incident “almost like an old Western shootout."