THE SHELBY INDEPENDENT

By Alan Wooten | The Center Square file graphic | The Shelby Independent AFFECTS LOCAL – North Carolina has joined antitrust litigation filed in California seeking to block Nexstar’s $6.2 billion acquisition of rival Tegna, a move Attorney General Jeff Jackson says will send cable and satellite bills rocketing higher while local newsrooms are gutted.  The first-term Democrat says eight northeastern counties, and the markets around Charlotte and Greensboro have 2 million cons