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Regulated sports betting and horse racing should begin across North Carolina in the first half of next year after Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Wednesday legislation that greatly expands ...
Early history. Gambling laws appeared in North Carolina as early as 1749, when the General Assembly adopted an English statute [ 3 ] that discouraged "excessive and immoderate" gambling by invalidating gambling debts greater than £100. [ 4 ] A 1753 law invalidated gambling debts of any amount, forbade gambling in public, and limited a gambler ...
In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial sexual relations. Some of these laws predated the establishment of the United States, and some dated to the later 17th or early 18th century, a century or more after the complete racialization of ...
Roy Asberry Cooper III (/ ˈ k ʊ p ər / KUUP-ər [1] [a]; born June 13, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving since 2017 as the 75th governor of North Carolina.A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 50th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017, and in the North Carolina General Assembly, in both the House, from 1987 to 1991, and the Senate, from 1991 ...
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed an independent authority to enforce a federal anti-doping law for the horse racing industry that was enacted in the wake of a series of thoroughbred fatalities ...
Stein has been North Carolina’s attorney general since 2017 after serving in the state Senate from 2009 to 2016. The progressive attorney and politician campaigned on a platform of lowering the ...
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, [6] was a coup d'état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. [7] The white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a ...
Josh Stein. Joshua Harold Stein (born September 13, 1966) [1] is an American lawyer and politician who is the governor-elect of North Carolina. [2] He has been serving as the 51st attorney general of North Carolina since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Stein previously served in the North Carolina Senate from 2009 to 2016.