All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2008 // Three former and current employees of the Camp Lejeune, N.C. Fire Department alleged that smoke detectors and fire alarms are not being inspected and maintained at the base, putting Marines and others at risk.The employees...
Jun 17 2008 // Firefighters will pump 6 million gallons an hour from two lakes to saturate a huge wildfire in eastern North Carolina that’s burned for more than two weeks.The fire, started by a lightning strike on private land,...
Jun 17 2008 // North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for a second time, to help pay the escalating costs of fighting the Evans Road Fire in three eastern North Carolina counties.The fire started...
Jun 16 2008 // A Southwest Florida man is the state’s first victim of the salmonella outbreak tied to raw tomatoes.State Health Department officials say the unidentified man got sick after eating tomatoes during a visit to New...
Jun 16 2008 // Fire officials warned people living near a massive wildfire at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern North Carolina that the blaze could smolder for months in the peat-filled soil.The fire burned about 30,000 acres in and...
Jun 13 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long said state officials arrested two Laurinburg men on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson and insurance fraud.Officials arrested William Angus McGirt, 71, and Franklin Lacy...
Jun 13 2008 // North Carolina officials arrested a Kinston woman for embezzlement and obtaining property by false pretense, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long.Department of Insurance investigators arrested Terri Lynn Spence,...
Jun 13 2008 // Lenoir Community College in Kinston hosted North Carolina’s largest hurricane evacuation exercise this year.The eastern North Carolina town suffered through hurricanes Fran and Floyd in the 1990s. The exercise,...
Jun 12 2008 // Winds whipped up an eastern North Carolina wildfire June 10, expanding its footprint by more than 10 percent and forcing the evacuation of 50 homes, officials said.Firefighters scrambled to strengthen or build about 20...
Jun 10 2008 // Fire crews plan to continue building containment lines around a massive wildfire that is burning in a sparsely inhabited rural area of eastern North Carolina. Spokesman Bill Swartley of the North Carolina Forest Service...
Jun 9 2008 // Fire officials warned people living near a massive wildfire at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern North Carolina that the blaze could smolder for months in the peat-filled soil.The fire burned about 30,000 acres in and...
Jun 9 2008 // Teenage drivers’ cellphone use edged higher in North Carolina after the state enacted a cellphone ban for young drivers, a new Institute study finds. This is the case even though young drivers and their parents said...
Jun 6 2008 // Authorities in eastern North Carolina are telling 39 homeowners to evacuate after a wildfire jumped containment lines. The blaze in the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge has burned up to 10,000 acres, or nearly 16...
Jun 6 2008 // North Carolina authorities cited more than 15,000 drivers and passengers for seat belt and child passenger safety violations during the “Click It or Ticket” campaign between May 19 and June 1 according to Gov....
Jun 5 2008 // A North Carolina Senate panel has approved a plan to send more than $29 million to the University of North Carolina system to improve campus security. The plan approved by a Senate judiciary committee June 3 would help the...
Jun 4 2008 // Amy Smith joined Raleigh, N.C.-based TriSure as an account manager in the firm’s property and casualty insurance division. In her new capacity at TriSure, Smith will serve as the first point of contact with clients....
Jun 2 2008 // Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C. have to register their vehicles and driving records as part of a new safety order meant to reduce traffic fatalities. The new safe driving program comes in the wake of a rash of accidents....
Jun 2 2008 // Friend and Colleague“We are devastated that all hope is lost, but we also find a sense of closure in knowing that we can lay to rest our dear friend and colleague with the dignity and respect she deserves.”...
Jun 2 2008 // The rapid pace of development along hurricane-prone coasts is adding a new level of urgency for forecasters to more accurately pinpoint potential storm impact zones, the director of the National Hurricane Center...
May 30 2008 // The North Carolina Medical Board will hold a public hearing next month on a proposal to post doctors’ malpractice information on its Web site.The News & Observer of Raleigh reported this week that the idea has...