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Wilmington city council members are weighing two funding requests for $100,000 each. At a board of council members meeting on Tuesday, city officials discussed requests from the New Hanover County Community Justice Center (CJC) and the Film Partnership of North Carolina.

The Australian folk band The Paper Kites has a new song called "When The Lavender Blooms." It offers some advice about how to appreciate the present moment.

Police still had no suspects in custody Sunday after a weekend shooting near an Ohio street festival wounded 12 people and sent attendees scrambling for cover in a busy Toledo neighborhood.

When the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, it took ownership of the Pribilof islands, home to the Russian-American Company's commercial fur-seal enterprise — and to the Unangax^ people who were forced to harvest the seals as "wards of the state." Indigenous residents continued to live under government supervision until 1983, when Congress finally transferred local control of the Pribilof Islands to the Unangax^ people themselves. From Theo Greenly of Alaska Public Media.

The hosts of the podcast 'When the World Comes to Texas,' Miranda Suarez and Ron Corning, talk about what they learned about Texas while reporting on the World Cup in their state.

Iran says it has closed the Strait of Hormuz again. The U.S. military says traffic is still flowing. NPR's Jane Arraf reports from Beirut.

"I get goose bumps," said school principal Jamie Cook, thinking about the community rallying to support the family. The three students and their mother were arrested by immigration agents.

Sketchers say making art together in urban environments allows them to create a record of a moment and to notice a little bit more about the city they see every day.

The ban allows private citizens to sue local government if they permit camping on public property. The legislation allows the creation of dedicated camping areas, as long as they don't impact businesses or residential areas. The bill doesn't provide any funding for dealing with homelessness.

In addition to several inches of snow across much of North Carolina, Stein warned about potential overwash on the Outer Banks and wind chills well below zero degrees Fahrenheit in western North Carolina.