Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Man Accused of Causing Over 12 Accidents for Insurance Money
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...
North Carolina Man Charged with 8 Counts of Insurance Fraud
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...
North Carolina Looks to Regulate Zip Lines, Carnival Rides
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...
North Carolina Deck Collapse Caused by Deteriorating Nails
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...
North Carolina Man Charged with 8 Counts of Insurance Fraud
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...
Cause of North Carolina Deck Collapse that Injured 23 Under Investigation
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....
North Carolina Salmonella Outbreak Kills 1, Sickens Nearly 250
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...
North Carolina Approves Amendments to Captive Insurance Law
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,...
Ex-Senate Candidate Grant to Run for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner
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...
North Carolina Lawmakers Approve Insurance Requirement for Mopeds
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...
Study: North Carolina’s Outer Banks Risk Losing $2B to Rising Seas
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...
North Carolina Investigators Say Church Fire Was Arson, $250K in Damage
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...
North Carolina Lawmakers Approve Insurance Requirement for Mopeds
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...
North Carolina Approves Amendments to Captive Insurance Law
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...
North Carolina Congressman’s Tree Falls on Postal Service Vehicle, Kills Worker
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...
North Carolina Appeals Court Rules UNC Violated Tenure Rules in Professor Firing
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...
North Carolina High Court Rules Duke Energy Has ‘Years’ to Cleanup Coal Ash
Jun 16 2015 // North Carolina’s highest court ruled June 11 that Duke Energy has years to clean up leaking coal ash dumps as outlined by a new state law. The state Supreme Court overruled a lower court judge’s decision that...
Ex-Senate Candidate to Run for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner
Jun 15 2015 // Unsuccessful 2014 U.S. Senate candidate Heather Grant says she’ll run for North Carolina insurance commissioner in 2016. Grant of Wilkes County announced Friday she will seek the Republican Party’s nomination...
North Carolina Regulators Order Duke to Stop Spreading Groundwater Pollution
Jun 12 2015 // North Carolina environmental regulators ordered Duke Energy this week to stop the spread of groundwater pollution from coal ash dumps outside Wilmington after tests showed contamination in nearby drinking water wells. The...
North Carolina Legislators Override Governor’s Veto of Workplace Activity Bill
Jun 8 2015 // The North Carolina General Assembly cancelled Gov. Pat McCrory’s veto of a bill designed to give employers in the state legal recourse against people who deliberately get jobs to steal company secrets or record...
