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Ex-President Donald Trump left a bulletproof glass wall protecting him in his first outdoor campaign rally since surviving an assassination attempt to check on a fan experiencing a medical emergency. Trump was delivering remarks to supporters in Asheboro, North Carolina, when an attendee to stage left appeared to have a medical episode shortly before 3pm on Wednesday. The situation caught the Republican nominee’s attention and he looked over and called for ‘a doctor, please’. Claps rung out as Trump halted his speech and looked to his left for several minutes at the direction of the episode.

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, and Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance will deliver remarks on National Security in Asheboro, North Carolina on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, at 2:00PM EDT. Since weak, failed, and dangerously liberal Kamala Harris took office America has become a global laughingstock. From our wide-open border to the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to the Hamas-Israeli war to enabling the Iranian terrorist regime, this Administration’s weakness on the world stage has put America’s national security in jeopardy and brought us to the brink of World War III. Kamala Harris played a...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — A man is accused of keeping a woman “in sexual servitude” for five years, authorities in North Carolina said. Salvador Espinoza Escobar, 48, was expected in court Friday after being charged with one count of felony human trafficking, the Randolph County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. He was taken into custody Wednesday, the same day the investigation began.

ASHEBORO — A Friday afternoon accident at the Sunset Avenue overpass in Asheboro caused traffic to be rerouted in and around the area. The incident was reported at 1 p.m. when a dump truck driven by Jeffrey J. Friedmann of Winston-Salem was traveling northbound on Interstate 73/74. He had just left the McDonald’s construction site on Dixie Drive. Friedmann told officers he noticed that the dump bed of the truck was beginning to move, according to a report from the Asheboro Police Department. The dump bed of the 1995 Peterbilt truck struck the support beams of the overpass bridge, causing...