All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2019 // North Carolina health officials have confirmed a second death from Legionnaires’ disease linked to a hot tub display at a fair. The Division of Public Health in the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services says...
Oct 8 2019 // President Donald Trump has approved a request from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper for public assistance for 14 counties affected by Hurricane Dorian. The major disaster declaration, approved Friday, allows impacted...
Oct 7 2019 // The North Carolina State Bar says it was the target of a ransomware attack this week. In a statement issued on Thursday, the organization says the attack late Monday infiltrated the network through a server and began...
Oct 7 2019 // North Carolina health officials say hot tub displays inside a building at a fair are likely to blame for an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease last month. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said on its...
Oct 7 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Rate Bureau have settled a legal dispute over a proposed premium increase for homeowners insurance rates, according to a statement from NCDOI.NCDOI has also...
Oct 7 2019 // Insured loss estimates for Hurricane Dorian will range from $500 million to $1.5 billion, according to catastrophe modeling firms Karen Clark & Co. and RMS.According to KCC, Dorian reached peak intensity of 185 mph...
Oct 4 2019 // Health officials in North Carolina say 116 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease since an outbreak was reported in September. The Asheville Citizen Times reports the N.C. Department of Health and...
Oct 4 2019 // The former chairman of North Carolina’s Republican Party admitted Wednesday that he broke the law by lying to federal agents about his role in an alleged effort to bribe the state’s top insurance regulator to...
Oct 3 2019 // A huge fire destroyed six homes and damaged a seventh home in a North Carolina beach town, and officials are trying to determine what sparked it.News outlets report the fire first broke out around 6 p.m. Sunday, and it...
Oct 1 2019 // A North Carolina jury has ordered three law enforcement officials to pay $8.3 million for violating a man’s civil rights when they beat and shot him while he was driving on his own property six years ago. WRAL-TV...
Sep 30 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Rate Bureau have settled a legal dispute over a proposed premium increase for homeowners insurance rates, according to a statement from NCDOI.NCDOI has also...
Sep 27 2019 // Health officials in western North Carolina say one person has died from Legionnaires’ disease and several others have been sickened.Kim Horton is a spokeswoman for the Henderson County Department of Public Health....
Sep 26 2019 // Health departments in two North Carolina counties are looking into multiple cases of Legionnaires’ disease at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said in a news...
Sep 25 2019 // Tanika Outlaw was working as the food and beverage manager at the Doubletree Hotel in New Bern last September when Hurricane Florence began shoving feet of water into the city’s downtown area.Ultimately, the storm...
Sep 25 2019 // Online insurance platform Policygenius plans to open a new technical and operations center in Durham County, North Carolina, according to a statement from Governor Roy Cooper.Policygenius’ new location plan calls for...
Sep 24 2019 // North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is seeking additional federal disaster assistance for counties affected by Hurricane Dorian.Cooper made the request to President Donald Trump’s administration Saturday. Cooper asked for...
Sep 23 2019 // Lawyers for the North Carolina insurance magnate charged with trying to bribe the state’s top insurance regulator say the case should be dismissed because he claims he was exercising his right to support elected...
Sep 18 2019 // North Carolina’s attorney general says he’s pursuing accountability from the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma with a pending lawsuit over their role in the country’s opioid epidemic.Attorney...
Sep 18 2019 // North Carolina Poison Control says nearly 75 children under age 5 have been poisoned by e-cigarettes and vaping products in 2019. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports the group said in a news release that nearly 150...
Sep 17 2019 // Catastrophe modeling firms Karen Clark & Co. and RMS have released insured loss estimates for Hurricane Dorian, ranging from $500 million to $1.5 billion.According to KCC, Dorian reached peak intensity of 185 mph while...