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A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
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On this day in 2020, The News & Observer published the story of North Carolina parents receiving $355 stimulus checks to help offset costs from their children’s virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taxpayers who lived in the state for the entirety of 2019 and had at least one qualifying child on their tax form. Checks were scheduled to be sent out by December 15 of that year.
Then-Senate leader Phil Berger, an Eden Republican, said that he knows the $335 amount isn’t enough to pay off a mortgage but could pay for a babysitter and dinner out for parents along with other costs related to virtual learning.
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In 1926, Victory Yarn Mill in Gastonia and its superintendent were named in a $60,000 lawsuit filed by two former employees. Both allege that they were nursing a patient with rabies, or hydrophobia, when they were bitten by said patient. The plaintiffs also allege that they were in a “semi-hydrophobic” state.
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