Gary D. Robertson, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., speaks to supporters and the media at his primary election night watch party in Hendersonville, N.C., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

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Edwards ousts Cawthorn in NC GOP primary

by Gary D. Robertson Associated PressMay 18, 2022

RALEIGH, N.C. — First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his Republican primary race Tuesday to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, after the pro-Donald Trump firebrand’s personal and political blunders translated into voter unhappiness.Cawthorn called…

Darryl Hutchinson, facing camera, is hugged by a relative during a funeral service for his cousin Lydia Nunez at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Los Angeles, July 21. Nunez died from COVID-19. Southern California funeral homes are turning away bereaved families because they’re running out of space for the bodies piling up during an unrelenting coronavirus surge.

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Fauci: Vaccinations ramping up

by Gary D. Robertson Associated PressJanuary 3, 2021

FILE - In this March 28, 2017, file photo, North Carolina House Democratic leader Darren Jackson holds up a copy of HB 186, which was a compromise bill to replace HB 2, in Raleigh, N.C. The NBA All-Star Game is set for North Carolina this weekend after the league delayed Charlotte hosting the event for two years because of the state’s “bathroom bill.” (Chris Seward/The News & Observer via AP, File)

NBA All-Star Game arrives after ‘bathroom bill’ changes

by Gary D. Robertson Associated PressFebruary 12, 2019

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, Leslie McCrae Dowless poses for a portrait outside of his home in Bladenboro, N. C. N.C. Board of Elections Executive Director Kim Strach warned in a January 2017 letter obtained by The Associated Press that those involved in illegally harvesting absentee ballots in rural Bladen County would likely do it again if they weren’t prosecuted. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)

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Vote fraud case attempted last year

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, and Gary D. Robertson Associated PressDecember 22, 2018

Maura Walbourne sits in the front of a canoe looking in at her flooded Long Avenue home as David Covington wades through the wreckage in Conway, S.C. Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018 The Sherwood Drive area of Conway began to look like a lake on Sunday as homes were submerged deeper than ever in flood waters that have already set historic records. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP)

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Florence the week after: Thousands brace for more flooding

by Gary D. Robertson Associated Press, Martha Waggoner Associated Press, and Alan Suderman Associated PressSeptember 24, 2018

Gray water containing coal ask flows from a ruptured landfill at the L.V. Sutton Power Station in Wilmington, N.C., and flows toward Sutton Lake, near the Cape Fear River, Sept. 16, 2018. Duke Energy says it's initial estimate is that about 2,000 cubic yards (1,530 cubic meters) of ash were displaced at the landfill, enough to fill about 180 dump trucks.

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Florence pollution fears: Swollen rivers swamp ash dumps, hog farms

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, and Gary D. Robertson Associated PressSeptember 17, 2018

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 8, 2018, file photo, voters leave a polling place in Charlotte, N.C. On Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, judges affirmed their earlier decision striking North Carolina's congressional districts as unconstitutional because Republicans drew them with excessive partisanship. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

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Judges find NC congressional map still unlawful with partisan bias

by Gary D. Robertson Associated PressAugust 28, 2018

FILE - This Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, shows a Confederate monument honoring Henry Lawson Wyatt at the state Capitol in Raleigh, N.C. A North Carolina historical commission decided Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018, that this Confederate monument and two others should remain on the state Capitol grounds with newly added context about slavery, weighing in less than two days after another rebel statue was torn down by protesters at the state’s flagship university. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

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Panel rules on Confederate statues

by Martha Waggoner Associated Press, and Gary D. Robertson Associated PressAugust 23, 2018

State Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, speaks on the senate floor during a special session of the North Carolina General Assembly called to consider repeal of NC HB2 in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. North Carolina's legislature reconvened to see if enough lawmakers are willing to repeal a 9-month-old law that limited LGBT rights, including which bathrooms transgender people can use in public schools and government buildings. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)

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Repeal of N. Carolina ‘bathroom’ law collapses

by Gary D. Robertson Associated Press, and Emery P. Dalesio Associated PressDecember 21, 2016

FILE - In this March 20, 2015 file photo, Duke's Jahlil Okafor, left, shoots over Robert Morris's Rodney Pryor, right, during the second half of an NCAA tournament college basketball game in Charlotte, N.C. NCAA President Mark Emmert says it's up to the Atlantic Coast Conference and its members whether to follow the association's lead and pull events out of North Carolina because of a state law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people. In an interview Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, with The Associated Press, Emmert said the association expects to take a financial hit for moving seven championship events and tournament games out of the state on short notice, but how much is unknown. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

NCAA turns up pressure on North Carolina over bathroom law

by Jonathan Drew Associated Press, and Gary D. Robertson Associated PressSeptember 13, 2016