All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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....
Jul 7 2015 // State health officials say one person has died in connection with a salmonella outbreak at a North Carolina barbecue restaurant.The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced the death on its website, but...
Jul 6 2015 // Amendments proposed to the North Carolina Captive Insurance Act by the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI) were met with unanimous support from the N.C. General Assembly and signed into law on June 19, 2015,...
Jul 6 2015 // Unsuccessful 2014 U.S. Senate candidate Heather Grant says she’ll run for North Carolina insurance commissioner in 2016.Grant of Wilkes County said in June she will seek the Republican Party’s nomination for...
Jul 6 2015 // Moped owners may have a new item on their to-do lists in 2016 after getting their small-engine bikes registered with the state starting in July.The General Assembly gave its final approval in June to legislation requiring...
Jun 30 2015 // With scientists expecting the seas to rise about 3 feet over the next 100 to 150 years, a new study from the National Park Service says the two national seashores on North Carolina’s Outer Banks risk losing buildings...
Jun 26 2015 // Investigators with the Charlotte, N.C., Fire Department say a fire at a predominantly black church is a case of arson.A statement from the fire department said it took about an hour to get June 24 fire at Briar Creek Road...
Jun 25 2015 // Moped owners could have a new item on their to-do lists in 2016 after getting their small-engine bikes registered with the state starting next month.The General Assembly gave its final approval Tuesday to legislation...
Jun 24 2015 // Amendments proposed to the North Carolina Captive Insurance Act by the North Carolina Department of Insurance were met with unanimous support from the N.C. General Assembly and signed into law on June 19, 2015.Some of the...
Jun 23 2015 // A postal worker is dead after her passing vehicle was crushed by a falling tree owned by a North Carolina congressman. Multiple media organizations reported the 43-year-old female mail carrier died June 20 when the large...
Jun 18 2015 // A state appeals court has ruled that the University of North Carolina didn’t follow proper procedures when it suspended and ultimately fired a tenured physics professor convicted of smuggling drugs in Argentina.The...