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Trial Delayed Over North Carolina Congressional Map
A trial for a lawsuit that alleges North Carolina's congressional districts unfairly favor Republicans is being delayed.
The federal trial had been scheduled to begin next week in Greensboro. But a brief docket entry Monday said the case was being continued to an undetermined date.
The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, one of the groups suing, issued a statement about the delay but didn't explain the reason.
NC Budget Agreement Raises Salaries, Delays Tax Cuts
Republicans at the North Carolina General Assembly have announced a two-year state budget deal that gives raises to teachers, state employees and retirees next year but puts off income tax breaks until 2019.
Senate and House leaders unveiled details of their spending plan Monday, two weeks after negotiations between the two chambers officially opened.
The two chambers will vote later this week on the compromise measure, which would then go to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
NC To Start Testing River Water For Unregulated Chemical
North Carolina's environmental agency says it's collecting new samples to determine how much of an unregulated industrial chemical is entering a river that supplies water to hundreds of thousands of people.
The state Department of Environmental Quality said in a news release Monday it will test for the chemical compound GenX at 13 locations along the Cape Fear River over the next three weeks. The product is made in Bladen County by Chemours, which split off from DuPont.
Test samples collected three years ago detected the chemical in the water supply for southeastern North Carolina at levels considered to pose a low risk to humans.
But there's little data about the relatively new chemical's health effects.
Ohio Woman's Family Files Lawsuit Against Outdoor Park
The family of an Ohio woman who died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a North Carolina outdoor recreational park.
The family of 18-year-old Lauren Seitz filed the federal lawsuit Monday in Columbus, Ohio, against the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Seitz died in June 2016 from meningoencephalitis, a disease caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri. The lawsuit says Seitz contracted the amoeba after she was thrown overboard while whitewater rafting at the park.
Check For Russian Hacking Efforts Find No NC Targets
North Carolina officials say there's no evidence Russian hackers targeted state or local elections staffers by posing as a voting software supplier.
State elections board spokesman Patrick Gannon said Monday that none of the 21 counties that use software sold by the compromised Florida company received suspected phishing emails. The elections offices searched for efforts to sneak into their networks between the start of 2016 to the present.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.