Woman sues

Project Veritas

RALEIGH (AP) — A trial over a lawsuit against right-wing group Project Veritas and its founder James O’Keefe is under way in North Carolina. At issue is how a woman who was struck in the face outside a 2016 Donald Trump campaign rally was portrayed in a video.

Jurors in Asheville were sequestered overnight to hear testimony Tuesday in Shirley Teter’s lawsuit. Police said the disabled woman was assaulted and knocked to the ground.

Project Veritas released a video a month later that described Teter as a paid Democratic operative aiming to provoke assaults by Trump supporters. Teter sued, saying that was untrue and the video sparked threatening online comments that caused her to fear for her safety.

Project Veritas has used disguises and hidden cameras to uncover supposed liberal bias and corruption.

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System seeks to halt

how board is picked

GREENVILLE (AP) — The UNC System has filed a motion seeking to halt changes to who appoints members to a North Carolina medical center board.

System spokesman Josh Ellis says in a statement that attorneys for the system filed documents in Orange County Superior Court on Monday seeking to temporarily halt Vidant Medical Center and return the selection process to its former status.

Originally, Pitt County appointed 11 members to the county-owned hospital and the UNC Board of Governors appointed the other nine, following creation of the Brody School of Medicine in 1975. In April, a change eliminated the UNC appointments and gave them to Vidant.

Ellis said Vidant was asked to refrain from the change, but refused.

WITN-TV in Greenville reports Pitt County declined comment because it just learned of the action.

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