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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paid a visit to Fort Bragg on Thursday, observing thousands of soldiers march by as part of the 82nd Airborne Division’s All-American Week celebration.
Hegseth told soldiers that the Trump administration has their back and announced a pay raise for paratroopers and for expert paratroopers known as jumpmasters.
“For the first time, jumpmasters who have never been compensated additionally for that additional duty are going to receive an additional $150 a month in incentive pay,” Hegseth said.

Your Weather Planner

We'll be mostly dry right into the holiday weekend.

We'll see light winds at the start of Friday. Expect winds to pick up in the afternoon with gusts of 20 to 25 mph. Temperatures will peak in the middle to upper 70s across most of the area with highs in the lower 80s in the Sandhills.

Chances for rain return Sunday afternoon with scattered storms into Memorial Day as well.

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Around North Carolina

1. Family sues over 'cover-up' in fatal Raleigh crash, DA says troopers acted dishonestly

Hours after the Wake County district attorney said she would not criminally charge two State Highway Patrol troopers for their handling of a fatal crash, the family of Tyrone Mason filed suit in federal court. District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said a state investigation into Trooper Garrett Macario and Sgt. Matthew Morrison had concluded and that the two were not truthful about the October wreck. Mason's family sued Macario on Wednesday, accusing him of trying to cover up what happened before and after the crash.

2. Shootout, standoff ends after suspect shot by N.C. deputies

An hourslong standoff in Chatham County ended shortly after midnight Thursday when the suspect was shot by deputies, the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office said. The incident started around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday on Lambert Chapel Road in Siler City. Deputies serving an involuntary commitment order said the man started shooting from inside his trailer, “with hundreds of rounds discharged.” 

3. GPS app helps N.C. firefighters navigate during emergencies

Firefighters in Cornelius-Lemley, Matthews, Greensboro and Raleigh have been using the app, What3words, to navigate to the exact location of a person experiencing an emergency. The app divides the world into three-meter squares and assigns each location to three unique words. For example, the app identifies the address of Cornelius-Lemley Fire Rescue with the words, “eases.viewing.primrose.”

Around The Nation

1. House Republicans pass Trump's big bill of tax breaks and program cuts after all-night session

2. Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students

3. U.S. Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny

Editor's Pick - High school scholar feels space exploration can help solve problems on Earth

Logan Speight is the No. 1 ranked student in her school at The Dudley Early College Academy. Speight says a lot of our problems here on Earth can be solved with solutions that we find in space exploration. Speight has received a full academic scholarship to attend Spellman College.