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Michelle Mackonochie - familiar to WRAL viewers after five years as part of the morning news team - will anchor the 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. newscasts with Dan Haggerty, and the 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts with Gerald Owens. 

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DRAUGHON DRAWS: A sound, basic education?

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DRAUGHON DRAWS: Medicaid's Carolina cornucopia

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DRAUGHON DRAWS: New discovery- fossilized state budget

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025-- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist

DRAUGHON DRAWS: The Legislature delivers the death penalty... to the state budget

Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025-- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist

DRAUGHON DRAWS: Time to pass a complete state budget?

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DRAUGHON DRAWS: No state budget yet, but our work here is done!

After a weekend full of protests nationwide, some members of the state's Republican Party are calling on a Democratic lawmaker to resign because of something she posted online. 

A DOCUMENTARY AND MORE OF OUR REPORTING ON THE WRAL YOUTUBE PAGE. WE ARE FRESH OFF A WEEKEND FILLED THE PROTESTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND A BIG CELEBRATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C., FOR THE ARMY'S 200 AND 50TH ANNIVERSARY TODAY. SOME MEMBERS OF THE STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE CALLING ON A DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER TO RESIGN. >> WRL'S CARLY HAYNES REPORTS IT'S BECAUSE OF SOMETHING SHE POSTED ONLINE. >> THE PHOTO THAT'S GETTING ATTENTION IN PART BECAUSE OF WHO POSTED IT. NORTH CAROLINA REPRESENTATIVE JULIE VAN HASTEN A DEMOCRAT SHARED THIS PICTURE OF A NO KINGS PROTESTERS SATURDAY ASSIGN SHOWS A GUY A TEEN NEXT TO A DEPICTION OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HOURS LATER, VAN HAVE BEEN REMOVED. THE POST. SHE SAID THE SIGN WAS INAPPROPRIATE AND SHE CONDEMNS POLITICAL VIOLENCE. ANALYST DAVID MCLENNAN SAYS THE POST PERPETUATES A PROBLEM. IT'S NOT EVERYONE WHO SEES THAT SIGN OBVIOUSLY IS GOING TO COMMIT VIOLENCE. BUT >> IT JUST MAKES IT SEEM LIKE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NORMAL. AND THAT'S NEVER NORMAL. AN AXEL REPUBLICAN HOUSE SPEAKER DESTIN HALL CALLED THE BEHAVIOR DISGRACEFUL. >> SIMILAR MOMENTS HAVE HAPPENED ACROSS THE AISLE FOLLOWED BY WHAT ANALYSTS JASON HAAS OR LABELS A BLAME GAME. WE ARE IN SUCH A TIGHT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA IN WHICH ONE OR 2 VOTES CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE IN CONTROVERSIAL LEGISLATION WHEN TWENTY-TWENTY THE GOP CANDIDATE TO LEAD THE STATE'S SCHOOLS. MICHELE MORROW CALLED FOR A TELEVISED EXECUTION OF BARACK OBAMA. LAST JULY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR MARK ROBINSON SAID ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, SOME FOLKS NEED KILLING NORTH CAROLINA IS NOTICING A RECENT ILAN UNIVERSITY POLL SHOWED NEARLY THREE-QUARTERS OF STATE VOTERS WERE CONCERNED ABOUT VIOLENCE SHORTLY AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. TO OTHER PEOPLE SEE IMAGES LIKE WHAT WAS SHOWN IN THAT THE SOCIAL MEDIA POST. >> IT REALLY CAN BE PATIENT. IT CAN BE MORE. THE CATALYZE PEOPLE TO SAY, YES, SEE, THIS IS WHAT THE OTHER SIDE IS ALL ABOUT. >> CARLY HAYNES, WRAL, NEWS, RALEIGH. >> IT'S NOT CLEAR WHAT IF ANY DISCIPLINARY ACTION WILL COME FROM THE SOCIAL MEDIA POST, THE CHAIR OF THE NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC PARTY ISSUED A STATEMENT. IT READS THIS MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE OVER A PHOTO IN A REAL TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE RECENT TRAGEDY IN MINNESOTA RINGS INCREDIBLY

NC GOP calls for Democrat's resignation for social media post depicting severed Trump head

Jason Simmons will lead the North Carolina Republican Party for another two years. This comes as North Carolina Republicans met Saturday in Greensboro to elect a chair and vice chairs, which direct state party operations and play a critical role in fundraising, messaging and campaigning. 

CHILD ABUSE AND RESISTING A PUBLIC OFFICER. NEW TONIGHT, JASON SIMMONS WILL LEAD THE NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR ANOTHER 2 YEARS. SOUTH CAROLINA GOP THAT SATURDAY IN GREENSBOROUGH TO ELECT A CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR WHICH DIRECTS STATE PARTY OPERATIONS AND PLAY CRITICAL ROLES IN FUNDRAISING MESSAGING AND CAMPAIGNING. MEMBERS RE-ELECTED SIMMONS OVER CHALLENGER BROKE ME DOWN. SIMONS WON WITH 53% OF THE

Trump-backed Simmons sins second term as NC's GOP chairman

Scholars who study governments around the globe say a legal challenge over a contested seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is similar to attempts to weaken democracy in other countries. 