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Duke Energy apologizes for holiday blackouts

Duke Energy officials apologized Tuesday for a series of outages on Christmas Eve that affected approximately half a million customers. Company officials say some of the outages were longer than expected because of a failure of automation that required crews to restore the power manually.

Appeals court restores N. Carolina law addressing farm labor

A North Carolina law preventing legal settlements between farms and workers from requiring a farm operation to become a union employer doesn't violate the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday while overturning a lower court decision.