Latest North Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Auto Insurance Rate Hearings Scheduled
Jun 27 2008 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance and state insurance industry officials will come together beginning June 30 to debate auto insurance rate hikes. The auto insurance industry, represented by the North Carolina...
North Carolina Senate Approves Motorist Liability Coverage Measures
Jun 26 2008 // A North Carolina bill passed through the Senate Commerce Committee on June 24 that would require insurers to notify consumers of their choice to buy more than the required minimum uninsured motorist and underinsured...
North Carolina Lawmakers Consider Restricting Pickup Bed Riding
Jun 26 2008 // A North Carolina House judiciary committee approved a plan to further restrict riding in open pickup truck beds. House Bill 2340 prohibits anyone under age 16 from riding in the flatbed of a pickup truck. Current law...
North Carolina Safety Group Opposes Lifting Truck Restrictions
Jun 25 2008 // Opening thousands of miles of North Carolina roadways to long tractor-trailers will jeopardize lives and overtax the state’s infrastructure, a safety group cautioned. Truck Safety Coalition state coordinator Jen...
Update: North Carolina Wildfire Costs Reach $4.9 Million
Jun 23 2008 // The cost to fight a massive wildfire in eastern North Carolina is going up. Fire command center spokesman Dean McAlister said June 19 the costs have reached $4.9 million. Officials battling the fire in and around the...
North Carolina Mortgage Insurance Firm Triad Guaranty Cutting 100 Jobs
Jun 23 2008 // A mortgage insurance company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina says it is cutting 100 jobs as the housing crisis continues. Triad Guaranty Inc. said 65 jobs will be eliminated in Winston-Salem, beginning June 30 because of...
Marines in North Carolina Investigating Fire Issues at Camp Lejeune
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...
Update: Firefighters Pump Lake Water to Douse North Carolina Blaze
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,...
North Carolina Gov.’s 2nd Request for Federal Aid Hits Home
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...
Salmonella Cases from Eating Raw Tomatoes Found in Florida, North Carolina
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...
North Carolina Wildfire Could Burn for Months
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...
North Carolina Officials Arrest 2 on Suspicion of Conspiracy
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...
North Carolina Woman Arrested for Alleged Insurance Fraud
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,...
North Carolina Holds its Largest Hurricane Evacuation Exercise
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,...
North Carolina Fire Grows by 10%, Homes Evacuated
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...
Crews Continue to Battle Wildfire at Eastern North Carolina Refuge
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...
Authorities Say North Carolina Wildfire Could Burn for Months
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...
Study: Teen Drivers Often Ignore Bans on Using Cellphones and Texting
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...
39 Homeowners Near North Carolina Wildfire Told to Evacuate
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...
North Carolina ‘Click it or Ticket’ Yields 15,000 Restraint Violations
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....
