VOTER ID-NORTH CAROLINA NC justices weigh legality of voter ID, tax amendments RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court is deciding whether the legislature was barred from placing constitutional amendments on the ballot because members who agreed to do so were elected from districts declared to be illegal gerrymanders. The state Supreme Court scheduled…… read more »

AP-US-FLIGHT-DIVERTED-DISRUPTIVE-PASSENGER NY flight to Florida diverted over ‘disruptive passenger’ MORRISVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a disruptive passenger prompted a flight from New York to Florida to divert to a North Carolina airport. Raleigh-Durham International Airport officials say Frontier Airlines flight 1335, which was headed from LaGuardia Airport to Orlando International Airport, was diverted around…… read more »

FATAL STABBING-MOTHER North Carolina man charged in mother’s stabbing death KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff’s office says a man has been arrested and charged in his mother’s stabbing death. According to news outlets, deputies with the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office were called to a location in Kannapolis on Monday about a possible…… read more »

FERTILIZER-PLANT-FIRE Fertilizer explosion risk ‘greatly diminished,’ chief says WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A fire chief says the explosion threat from a fire at a North Carolina fertilizer plant has “greatly diminished” now that much of a combustible chemical has burned off and firefighters have returned to the site to spray down what’s left. The Winston-Salem…… read more »

FERTILIZER PLANT FIRE Explosion fears remain as N. Carolina fertilizer plant burns WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — An uncontrolled fire at a fertilizer plant has continued to burn in North Carolina. Fire officials in the city of Winston-Salem said the potential for an explosion had not gone down early Wednesday. Thousands of evacuated residents are still…… read more »