All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 31 2015 // The North Carolina legislature gave its final OK to state regulations August 27 for ridesharing companies such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, a move supporters say will protect consumers and drivers of the mobile phone-based...
Aug 28 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrests of Pamela Christine Liles, 31, and Travis Paul Randolph, 30, of Siloam.Department of Insurance criminal investigators accuse Liles of insurance...
Aug 27 2015 // As 12-year-old Bonnie Sanders Burney soared over a 40-foot ravine at her sleep-away camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the tether attaching her to a dual zip line snapped – plunging her to her death.Her tether had been...
Aug 18 2015 // The Hilb Group LLC announced today that it acquired JWB Insurance Group, an independent agency in Wilmington, North Carolina. The transaction became effective Aug. 1, 2015. The terms of the deal were not...
Aug 14 2015 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc., a property/casualty insurance holding company in Clearwater, Florida, announced that its subsidiary Heritage Property & Casualty Company (Heritage P&C) was approved to write...
Aug 13 2015 // North Carolina’s largest health insurer says higher-than-anticipated costs after two years of selling federally subsidized coverage has forced it to seek premium increases even greater than it thought would be...
Aug 12 2015 // Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline closed its North Carolina factory on Tuesday after testing at a cooling tower found bacteria that causes deadly Legionnaire’s disease, a company spokeswoman said.The Legionella bacteria was...
Aug 10 2015 // Insurance brokerage Hub International Limited announced that it has acquired the assets of Triangle Insurance Services Inc., an independent insurance agency based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Terms of the acquisition were...
Aug 5 2015 // Officials in the City of Lexington, N.C., have declared a state of emergency after a break occurred in a 16-inch water main.The Dispatch of Lexington reports restaurants and other businesses closed on Monday. City offices...
Aug 4 2015 // Firefighters are working to contain a wildfire burning in the Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, North Carolina.The U.S. Forest Service said Sunday anyone traveling along Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 70 can...
Jul 27 2015 // A deal brokered between North Carolina lawmakers and ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft to place regulations on the app-based companies has passed the Senate and will go to the House.The Senate passed a bill July...
Jul 24 2015 // School districts in North Carolina may soon be barred for five years from suing their counties over the amount of funding they receive under a new provision approved by the state Senate. The Senate passed on July 22 a bill...
Jul 24 2015 // A coalition of environmental groups is supporting Duke Energy’s effort to dismiss part of long-running lawsuit over pollution leaking from the company’s coal ash dumps.The Southern Environmental Law Center...
Jul 23 2015 // The North Carolina Department of Public Safety says its Division of Adult Correction has reached a $2.5 million settlement with the estate of a man with mental illness who died of thirst after being held in solitary...
Jul 20 2015 // Police in Asheville, N.C., say a man involved in more than a dozen wrecks in three years is accused of deliberately causing the accidents and trying to collect insurance later.The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that...
Jul 20 2015 // A Raleigh, N.C., man has been charged with eight counts of insurance fraud, eight counts of obtaining property by false pretense, four counts of attempting to obtain property by false pretense and four counts of providing...
Jul 17 2015 // North Carolina lawmakers want the state Department of Labor to study zip line safety following a fatal accident at a YMCA camp in the mountains last month. The bill was amended recently after a 12-year-old girl died when...
Jul 10 2015 // Nails deteriorated by years of exposure to the sand, salt and moisture from the ocean gave way, causing a deck collapse that hurt 24 people as they posed for a picture at a North Carolina beachfront home, authorities...
Jul 8 2015 // A Raleigh, N.C., man has been charged with eight counts of insurance fraud, eight counts obtaining property by false pretense, four counts of attempting to obtain property by false pretense and four counts of providing a...
Jul 7 2015 // Investigators are trying to determine what caused a deck to collapse as a family was taking a group photo at their rented beach house in North Carolina.The collapse July 4 sent 23 people to the hospital, authorities said....