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[ ![Trucks On A Road](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/news/2025/december/CDL/CDL-square.png) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/church-head-start-community-college-all-on-cdl-training-closure-list)

 Alan Wooten

An eastern North Carolina Baptist church, the Head Start program and a community college are among the entities with involuntary closures of CDL training programs in North Carolina, research from TCS shows.

 

 

 

 

[ ![Police Cruiser With Lights](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/news/2025/november/endofimmigration/endof-intro.png) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/enhanced-immigration-law-enforcement-ending-in-north-carolina)

 Alan Wooten

Federal immigration law enforcement enhancement, according to elected leaders in Charlotte and Raleigh, has concluded for now in North Carolina.

 

 

 

 

[ ![Downtown Charlotte](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/news/2025/november/messages_differ/messagesdiffer-intro.png) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/homeland-security-north-carolina-sheriff-and-mayor-messages-differ)

 Alan Wooten

Operation Charlotte’s Web “isn’t ending anytime soon,” says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin’s words Thursday was in response to reports citing Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden saying he had confirmed the end of the operation with the agency. Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles on Thursday echoed the sheriff.