Archive for author: righttime_admin

By Jessie Butner Roxboro Courtier-Times Uptown Roxboro sat quietly under Friday’s abysmal gray and cloudy chill all afternoon – with the exception of 117 N. Main Street. Inside, a crowd of people, con...

By Jaymie Baxley  When people qualify for Medicaid after a medical emergency, the program can currently reach back up to three months to pay for care they received before they applied — a safeguard th...

By Rachel Crumpler Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and another in an attack at Bertie Correctiona...

By Anne Blythe Many health care systems talk about three main pillars of care for treating cancer patients: medical, surgical and radiation oncology. It turns out that having state-of-the-art radiatio...

By Jennifer Fernandez During Isabella Avila’s freshman year at Union Pines High School in rural Moore County, a member of the senior class died in a car accident.  Then, during her sophomore year, a f...

By Daniel Larlham Jr. Co-published with the Charlotte Ledger Medical providers in Charlotte and across the state say more patients are landing in emergency rooms with problems stemming from cannabis u...

By Katie Dukes EdNC North Carolina has had a net loss of 367 licensed child care programs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 12% of those losses occurred in the final quarter of 2025....

By Jaymie Baxley The clock is ticking for lawmakers in North Carolina — the only state in the nation without an approved budget — to settle on a plan to cover rising administrative costs for Medicaid....