A pioneering black political leader in Charlotte has died. Long & Son Mortuary Service said Rowe Motley died last Friday at age 84. Motley was the first black commissioner in Mecklenburg County, serving in the 1970s. He was also North …
Paul Halter has joined workers’ compensation specialist Patriot National Insurance Group as regional vice president of the newly created Southeast region. In his new role, Halter will establish a Patriot National regional office in Charlotte, N.C. and will take responsibility …
Earlier in 2010, Colorado State’s Tropical Meteorology Project forecasted eight hurricanes to emerge from 15 named tropical storms in the Atlantic basin. Of those, four were forecasted to become major hurricanes. On August 29, Tropical Storm Earl was upgraded to …
Attorney General Tom Miller and ten other state attorneys general, have obtained judgments against the owners of a former Missouri company, barring them from ever again selling auto service contracts or engaging in telemarketing in Iowa and the other states. …
Frances Moore, of Moravian Falls,. N.C., an insurance agent and owner and operator of Fran Moore Allstate Agency, has been charged with 14 counts of insurance fraud, according to officials. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and his criminal investigators allege that …
A new federal job safety study finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest states in which to work. But some experts doubt whether the rates accurately reflect which states are safer. North Carolina’s rate of injuries or illnesses …
It’s a new day in several state houses in the Southeast, which has been red for years but went even redder as it got caught up in the Republican tide that swept the nation. Voters elected new Republican governors in …
$7 Million The amount North Carolina employers’ stand to save on workers’ compensation over what the industry requested under a settlement reached with the state. The settlement orders a 0.6 percent increase for voluntary market loss costs and 4.1 percent …
Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country. The Nov. 2 election gave the GOP its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great Depression, according to the National …
Yes, You Can “They said, ‘Yes, we have that authority.’” —Elaine Skorich, an assistant attorney general in West Virginia praising a state Supreme Court ruling upholding the authority of West Virginia’s mine safety office to suspend coal miners. The decision …
