Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. Poultry Industry Workplace Safety Prompts Federal Hearings Plans
Feb 19 2008 // U.S. Senate and House committees are planning hearings on worker safety in the poultry industry following a report by The Charlotte Observer on House of Raeford, congressional leaders and aides said. “All Americans...
N.C. Gov. Probes State’s Manufactured Housing Industry
Feb 15 2008 // North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley asked the head of the state’s manufactured housing industry group for information and help to ensure North Carolina residents living in manufactured homes are safe from any health...
People Flee as Fires in Rain-Starved Carolinas, Va. Burn Homes
Feb 12 2008 // Wind-whipped wildfires chased churchgoers from worship, forced hundreds of residents to flee homes and closed highways across the rain-starved Carolinas and Virginia on Sunday. Twelve small structures, including at least...
N.C. Debates Whether Residential Sprinklers Too Costly to Mandate
Feb 10 2008 // A North Carolina Firefighters’ group petitioning for mandatory safety measures in certain new residential construction believe a recent ruling by the state’s Building Code Council to hold-off pending further...
N.C. Workplace Deaths Dropped
Feb 10 2008 // The North Carolina Labor Department says workplace deaths dropped 29 percent statewide in 2007, down to 46 from 65 the year before. The leading cause of workplace death was being crushed, with those accidents having...
Officials Question Rates for N.C. High Risk Pool ‘Clean Risks’
Jan 27 2008 // North Carolina’s automobile insurance rates are among the country’s lowest, but a special pool covering motorists for hundreds of thousands of vehicles doesn’t work very well, industry officials told...
North Carolina Officials Say Workplace Deaths Dropped in 2007
Jan 23 2008 // The North Carolina Labor Department says workplace deaths dropped 29 percent statewide in 2007, down to 46 from 65 the year before. The leading cause of workplace death was being crushed, with those accidents having...
N.C. Young Agents Raise $70,000 to Fund Habitat for Humanity House
Jan 23 2008 // The Young Agents of North Carolina have raised $70,000 to fund the construction of a Habitat for Humanity house. The Young Agents are partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Wake County. During the past year, the...
Nearly 1M in Tenn. Drive without Insurance; Lawmaker Wants Change
Jan 18 2008 // Cardella Cummings’ car wreck left her dizzy and confused. Her insurance paid for the damage, but not because the accident was her fault. “I thought you had to have insurance because it’s the law,”...
N.C. Legislative Committee Examining Auto Insurance Rate Methods
Jan 18 2008 // North Carolina’s automobile insurance rates are among the country’s lowest, but a special pool covering motorists for hundreds of thousands of vehicles doesn’t work very well, industry officials told...
N.C. Holiday Traffic Safety Campaign Nets 4,367 Impaired Driving Arrests
Jan 15 2008 // North Carolina state and local law enforcement officers issued citations to 4,367 motorists for driving while impaired during the Holiday “Booze It & Lose It” campaign, according to Gov. Mike Easley. The...
N.C. Woman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud
Jan 8 2008 // West Virginia officials announced that a Raleigh County woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation benefits exceeding $3,800.00. On May 15, 2007, a Raleigh County Grand Jury indicted Angel...
Fire from Debris Burn Scorches 250 Acres after N.C. Burn Ban Lifted
Jan 8 2008 // A debris burn that apparently got out of control scorched approximately 250 acres in Washington County, N.C., on Sunday, just four days after the state temporarily lifted an outdoor burning ban. No injuries were reported...
North Carolina to Lift Burning Ban, Hoping to Fight Fire with Fire
Jan 3 2008 // North Carolina officials plan to temporarily lift the ban on open burning to allow people time to burn off forest debris that can fuel wildfires. North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary...
N.C. Building Council Rejects Firefighters’ Request for Home Sprinklers
Dec 23 2007 // The North Carolina Building Code Council declined to consider a request that sprinkler systems be required in new large or multistory homes, a setback for firefighters who sought the change following an October beach house...
N.C. Building Code Could Affect Insurance Rates
Dec 23 2007 // Some North Carolina coastal residents could see a spike in their insurance rates because of a recent decision by the North Carolina Building Code Council. The council toughened the coastal housing code for wind-borne...
N.C. Man Sentenced in Fires at 3 Greenville Churches
Dec 20 2007 // A man who pleaded guilty to setting fires at three Greenville, N.C., churches last year has been sentenced to 10 years to 12 years in prison. A Pitt County Superior Court judge sentenced 28-year-old Seth Parker Price of...
Only Way to Mainland, Bridge Safety Concerns N.C. Drivers
Dec 20 2007 // Catwalks on the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge have been repaired. Up next is the beginning of the nitty-gritty structural repair work on the only land link to North Carolina’s Hatteras Island. Contracts have been let on...
BMS Names New N.C.-Based Senior Vice President
Dec 20 2007 // BMS Intermediaries, the North American arm of the BMS Group named Christopher J. Farina as senior vice president. Farina was formerly a vice president at Axiom Re Inc. He will be based in Burlington, N.C., and will be...
N.C.’s Operation ‘Drive to Live’ Focuses on Teen Driver Safety
Dec 18 2007 // North Carolina state and local law enforcement officials alongside First Lady Mary Easley kicked off Operation Drive to Live last week. The N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety and the Highway Patrol...
