All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 11 2018 // Hurricane Florence’s potential for destruction also includes increased risks for the environment and public health as torrential rains could overwhelm the pits where toxic waste from power plants is stored....
Sep 10 2018 // Tuesday, Sep 11, 2018, 5:47 am— Florence continued to roll toward the U.S. East Coast, poised to become the strongest hurricane in almost 30 years to hit the Carolinas as more than 1 million people began fleeing a...
Sep 10 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of August.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
Sep 9 2018 // Updated Monday, Sept 10, 8:17 am —Top winds for Hurricane Florence grew to 105 miles (169 kilometers) per hour as it pushed westward toward the U.S. East Coast, a major threat to homes, agriculture and the waning tourist...
Sep 4 2018 // North Carolina’s Wildlife Commission says 29 people have died in boating accidents this year, making it the deadliest in the past 20 years. Commission officials tell the Asheville Citizen-Times that victims...
Aug 28 2018 // The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles has suspended the printing of new driver’s licenses after people noticed errors on new cards. The News & Observer reports the DMV has asked contractor IDEMIA to stop...
Aug 20 2018 // A federal jury decided Aug. 5 that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog farms for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors,...
Aug 20 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of July.Details of the incidents, as reported by NCDOI, are as follows: Monroe Man Charged with FraudGary Miller of...
Aug 17 2018 // A lawsuit filed against a North Carolina school system and its board of education says an elementary school in need of repairs was discriminated against because of race.The Winston-Salem Journal reports the lawsuit, filed...
Aug 13 2018 // A company is paying less than half the fine workplace safety officials assessed for a North Carolina construction accident that killed three workers and badly injured a fourth.News organizations reported the deadly 2015...
Aug 8 2018 // Jax, LLC, which operates a Golden Corral restaurant in Matthews, N.C., has agreed to pay $85,000 and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to a...
Aug 7 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of July.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
Aug 6 2018 // A federal jury decided Friday that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog farms for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors,...
Aug 6 2018 // Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL), a globally diversified financial services group providing insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance, will open an operational hub in Raleigh, N.C., and create 365 new jobs over four...
Jul 31 2018 // Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL), a globally diversified financial services group providing insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance, will open an operational hub in Raleigh, N.C., and create 365 new jobs over four...
Jul 23 2018 // Excess and surplus lines (E&S) insurance premium recorded by the 15 managing service offices in the United States increased 9.4 percent as of the 2018 mid-year point, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX)...
Jul 23 2018 // At least four people have been hurt after a fire started at an apartment complex in North Carolina’s largest city.The Charlotte Fire Department said firefighters were called around 4:30 a.m. Friday and had to call...
Jul 20 2018 // A fire caused heavy damage at a North Carolina scrap metal yard, forced evacuations from a nearby neighborhood and cut electricity to around 1,400 customers.Officials in Salisbury said in a statement the fire erupted...
Jul 19 2018 // North Carolina and federal health officials want to test whether neighbors of a chemical company are carrying little-understood industrial compounds in their bodies. North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human...
Jul 18 2018 // One man has died and another was hurt when a trash container fell off a forklift at a soup plant in North Carolina.The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets that 59-year-old Alex Radford of Laurinburg...