All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 15 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of David Maylon Pickett, Grifton, N.C.; he is charged with 13 counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent in Craven, Harnett, Lenoir, Pitt and Wayne...
Oct 13 2015 // For the first time since May 12, North Carolina is free of drought.A map issued Oct. 8 by the state Drought Management Advisory Council showed all 100 counties to be clear of any drought advisories. North Carolina received...
Oct 12 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin and fire service representatives opened the N.C. Department of Insurance Charlotte Regional Office Oct. 8.The office will provide Department of...
Oct 6 2015 // Claims are already starting to trickle in from the major storm that hit South Carolina over the weekend and that is now causing additional flooding problems in North Carolina.According to State Farm Spokesman Justin...
Oct 5 2015 // A concrete canopy collapsed Saturday on a group of band students who had gathered outside a North Carolina high school shortly before a competition, leaving 25 people injured, authorities said.Dr. Howard Bell of Iredell...
Oct 1 2015 // The weather outlook for the eastern U.S. is starting to resemble the plot of a 1970s disaster movie in which everything that could go wrong did.From the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast, the coastal states have been soaked by...
Oct 1 2015 // Duke Energy agreed Tuesday to pay North Carolina regulators $7 million to settle allegations of groundwater pollution at its coal ash pits and to perform accelerated cleanups costing millions of dollars at four sites.The...
Sep 30 2015 // Joaquin is forecast to become a major hurricane by Saturday as it strengthens in the Atlantic, triggering hurricane warnings and watches for the Bahamas. Its course after crossing the island chain is still uncertain, the...
Sep 29 2015 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage has opened a new full service brokerage office in Charlotte, North Carolina. This latest location is the third the company has opened in just nine months.According to Denis Brady, president of...
Sep 25 2015 // The North Carolina Labor Department has fined three companies in connection with the deaths of three workers killed when scaffolding fell at a high-rise construction project in downtown Raleigh, including one that was...
Sep 25 2015 // The actions of three whistleblowers from Park Ridge Hospital in Hendersonville, North Carolina have yielded what an attorney says is the largest ever settlement in a health care whistleblower case involving physician...
Sep 17 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of David Mark Blanton, 50, Leland, N.C., who is charged with six counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent, two counts of forgery of an instrument...
Sep 16 2015 // A judge on Monday rejected a bid by North Carolina’s environment agency to block Duke Energy from removing toxic coal ash from more plants than required under a new state law.Duke Energy has asked to add three power...
Sep 15 2015 // Drought conditions are getting worse in western North Carolina, according to the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor assessment released Sept. 10.Five counties in North Carolina are now considered to be in a severe drought....
Sep 14 2015 // Officials in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., plan to challenge new federal flood plain maps in a move that could save some residents thousands of dollars in insurance premiums. The StarNews of Wilmington reports the town’s...
Sep 10 2015 // Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law state regulations for ridesharing companies where potential customers use smartphone apps to hail drivers and complete cashless transactions.McCrory signed the legislation Sept. 4 at...
Sep 8 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has spoken out against a proposal by state lawmakers to eliminate funding for driver education through public high schools as a way to help close a deficit in the state...
Sep 7 2015 // 2 North Carolina Residents Accused of Insurance Fraud in Multiple CountiesNorth Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrests of Pamela Christine Liles, 31, and Travis Paul Randolph, 30, of Siloam....
Sep 4 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of William Jeffery Barnhardt, 65, of West End, Moore County; he is charged with two counts each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false...
Sep 4 2015 // Some legislators are once again trying to expand the number of certain erosion-controlling structures allowed by law along the North Carolina coast. This time, they’re trying to do it through the state...