2020

## Events

* January 1st: 27-year-old killed in Salisbury Highway crash Wednesday morning
* January 8th: Mecklenburg Country approves funding of new voting machines
* January 13th: Gov. Cooper orders flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of Ft. Bragg paratroopers killed in Afghanistan.
* Februrary 6th: Severe storms sweep across North Carolina, bringing strong winds and some tornadoes.
* February 7th: President Trump remarks at the North Carolina Opportunity Now Summit.
* February 20th: Governor Cooper urges North Carolina residents to be prepared during winter storm.
* March 3rd: North Carolina identifies first case of Coronavirus.
* March 27th: Governor Cooper Announces Statewide Stay at Home Order Until April 29.
* April 29th: Governor Cooper issued a new executive order that restricted the number of customers inside grocery and retail stores, increased hygiene requirements of food service, and implemented stricter guidelines for long-term care facilities.
* May 12th: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported 23 meat processing plants were infected.
* June 24th: Cooper announced that face masks would be required in public places statewide starting June 26. In light of increasing case numbers and hospitalizations as well as high positive test rates, he also announced that the state would "pause" reopening.
* August 17th:  North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell says the state employees’ pension plan, also known as the North Carolina Retirement System, has rebounded from losses suffered during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, and now has more value than it did at the end of last year.
* September 4th: Gov. Roy Cooper eases some coronavirus pandemic restrictions
* September 8th: President Trump holds a Campaign Rally in Winston-Salem.
* September 10th: Woman shot to death In east Charlotte neighborhood
* September: Hendersonville deputy Ryan Hendrix killed in line of duty
* September 14th: NCDHHS officials urge North Carolinians to get vaccinated as flu season begins.
* September 14th: Car of Missing North Carolina man, Andy Banks Jr, found in Danville.
* September 16th: 2-year-old boy critically wounded in North Carolina shooting, police say.
* September 19th: At rally in Fayetteville, President Trump promises to nominate a woman to high court.
* September 19th: Oldest living US Marine celebrates her 107th birthday in North Carolina.
* September 20th: North Carolina couple married for over 50 years died minutes apart of Covid-19 while holding hands.
* September 21st: North Carolina Trump Parade Participants Shout 'White Power,' 'Confederate Lives Matter' at BLM Protester.
* September 24th: North Carolina man charged with more than 300 sex crimes against children.
* September 28th: KPD mourned the death of longest serving active duty officer in North Carolina.
* October 2nd: GOP Sen. Thom Tillis tests positive for coronavirus.
* October 10th: 2 women accused of assaulting man with Trump flag.
* October 12th: Man who couldn’t sleep buys North Carolina lottery ticket — and it pays off big time
* October 21st: N.C. maintains reopening guidance as COVID numbers worsen.
* October 24th: President Trump Campaigns in Lumberton, North Carolina.
* October 27th: Man charged with murder in North Carolina 3 months after finding girlfriend in tub
* October 29th: Amazon’s first physical store in North Carolina opens in Raleigh.
* November 3rd: Gov. Roy Cooper wins second term.
* November 6th: Kristin Cooper, the wife of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, apologized for flipping off a group of protesters outside the State Capitol on Sunday.
* November 7th: In Raleigh, one protest turns into a party while a second echoes claims of fraud.
* November 14th: Jamesville man killed in early morning Martin County crash.
* November 18th: New statewide COVID-19 county alert system announced for North Carolina.
* November 23rd: North Carolina man convicted in 2017 heroin death.
* December 14th: First shipments of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrive in North Carolina
* December 15th: Gov. Roy Cooper celebrates vaccine arrival, urges North Carolina residents to continue mask-wearing.
* December 19th: Charlotte North Carolina Doctor Sentenced to Prison Time for Conspiring to Distribute Prescription Opioids in Virginia.
* December 21st: 2 women face drug charges after mooning North Carolina McDonald’s employees.
* December 27th: North Carolina breaks half a million total confirmed COVID-19 cases.
* December 30th: Nearly 1 in 5 NC hospitals at least 90 percent full, federal data shows.
* December 31st: Burlington man charged for violating governor's executive order on New Year's Eve.

## Deaths

* February 16th: Robert B. Jordan
* December 28th: Marc Basnight