TROPICAL WEATHER Claudette regains tropical storm strength after 13 deaths ATLANTA (AP) — Claudette has returned to tropical storm strength Monday morning as it nears the coast of the Carolinas. The system had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph Monday morning, less than two days after Claudette was blamed for 13 deaths in Alabama. A…… read more »
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North Carolina News – June 21
North Carolina News – June 18
TUBING DEATHS Search resumes after 3 tubers died, 2 disappeared on river EDEN, N.C. (AP) — A search has resumed for two missing tubers on a North Carolina river after three others were found dead and four were pulled from the water. Authorities say the group of nine people was floating down the Dan River…… read more »
North Carolina News – June 16
AP-NC-UNC-MULTIPLE GUNS-CAR Man with guns in car on UNC-Chapel Hill campus arrested CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Police at a North Carolina university arrested a man who a security officer found on campus sleeping inside a car with multiple firearms. News outlets report police at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill charged 39-year-old…… read more »
North Carolina News – June 15
AP-NC-NOOSES FOUND-PHARMACEUTICAL PLANT Nooses found hanging at North Carolina pharmaceutical plant DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Officials at a pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina have launched an investigation into the discovery of two nooses at a construction site. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Merck and local authorities are looking into the incidents. Plant management…… read more »
North Carolina News – June 14
GOLF CART DEATH-DWI Golf cart death leads to driving while impaired charge in NC HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been charged with driving while impaired after a woman was killed while riding in a golf cart Friday night. WRAL-TV reports that Jeremy Rollins Martin, 43, was driving in the 12…… read more »
North Carolina News – June 11
HARRIS-VACCINATION TOUR-SOUTH VP Harris making Southern stops to promote vaccination COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration’s top environmental official are making stops in several Southern states to promote an intensive White House coronavirus vaccination effort. The White House announced Friday that Harris would visit Greenville, South Carolina, on Monday,…… read more »
North Carolina News – June 10
ABORTION-NORTH-CAROLINA N. Carolina ban on Down syndrome abortions goes to governor RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Senate approved a measure on Thursday to prohibit doctors from performing abortions if a woman is seeking it because of race, sex or a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is not expected to approve…… read more »
North Carolina News – June 9
TEEN HIT BY TRAIN Police: Teen hit by train, killed APEX, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old woman was killed when she was hit by an Amtrak train while walking along the tracks.Apex police said in a news release that officers responding to an emergency call around 10 p.m. Tuesday found the woman from…… read more »
North Carolina News – June 8
STATE BUDGET NC Republicans finally agree on next year’s spending total RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republicans in the North Carolina legislature have announced an agreement on how much they want to spend on state government next year. GOP leaders in the two chambers said Tuesday their spending cap would be $25.7 billion. That’s several hundred…… read more »
North Carolina News – June 7
MISSING MAN FOUND ALIVE Missing man found alive after 8 nights in forest HAVELOCK, N.C. (AP) — A man who went missing in Croatan National Forest has been found alive after eight nights in the woods.The Carteret County Sheriff’s Office announced Sunday that 20-year-old Joshua Clauson walked out of a wooded area near a home…… read more »
