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#1 Fire and Explosion at North Carolina Manufacturing Site Under Investigation
Sep 16 2025 // Authorities were investigating a fire and explosion at a Fiberon plant in North Carolina that injured four workers late last week. The Queen City News and other sites reported that the facility in New London, which makes...
#2 NC Postal Worker Pleads to Lying About Work While Gaining $500K in Benefits
Sep 23 2025 // A 74-year-old former postal worker in North Carolina is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to falsifying information about her post-injury employment and costing the federal workers’ compensation...
#3 NC Woman Faces 170 Felony Charges in Insurance Fraud Involving Stolen GLP-1 Drugs
Oct 10 2025 // A North Carolina woman has been busy over the last three years, illegally obtaining weight-loss medication, administering it to people, and defrauding insurance companies of more than $87,400, the state Department of...
#4 More NC Outer Banks Homes Collapse into Surf as Hurricanes Stay Far Offshore
Oct 3 2025 // Six unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks have collapsed into the ocean as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda rumble in the Atlantic, the latest private beachfront structures to fall as sea levels rise due...
#5 12th Home in 5 Years Collapses into Surf on North Carolina Outer Banks
Sep 19 2025 // A beachfront stilt home along the Outer Banks in North Carolina has collapsed into the surf, bringing the total number of houses claimed by the Atlantic Ocean to 12 in the past five years. The two-story, wood-shingled home...
#6 NC Judge Orders Insurers to Pay $50M in TV News Helicopter Crash Death
Sep 22 2025 // A North Carolina judge has ordered $50 million be paid to the family of a Charlotte TV station meteorologist who was killed in a helicopter crash three years ago after finding the companies that owned and operated the...
#7 All Injured in Deadly NC Waterfront Bar Shooting Released from Hospital
Oct 7 2025 // All six people hospitalized after a coastal North Carolina shooting last weekend that left three dead at a waterfront bar have been released, officials announced Friday. Southport officials initially said five people were...
#8 Stein Wants $13.5B From Congress for NC Hurricane Helene Recovery
Sep 18 2025 // North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Monday requested $13.5 billion more from Congress in recovery aid for Hurricane Helene almost a year after the historic storm, saying additional help is needed from Washington to address...
#9 On North Carolina Rivers, Cleanup from Helene Seems Never-Ending
Sep 26 2025 // Bracing himself against the current in waist-deep water, Clancy Loorham wrestles a broken length of PVC pipe from the rocky bottom of the French Broad River and peers inside. “I got a catfish in the pipe,” the...
