North Carolina

National

Tropical storm warning puts mid-Atlantic coast under threat of winds and flooding

8:42pm September 21, 2023

by Emma Bowman

A disturbance is likely to strengthen into a tropical storm when it's expected to hit North Carolina late Friday, forecasters said, posing flooding and other threats as far north as New Jersey.

Politics & Government

Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024

9:44am September 06, 2023

by David A. Lieb, Associated Press

Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts

Anderson Clayton, 25, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, is the youngest state party chair in the country. She wants to help Democrats reach rural and young voters.

Politics & Government

A 25-year-old from a small town leads North Carolina's Democratic Party toward 2024

5:10am September 06, 2023

Anderson Clayton is the youngest — and only Gen Z — state party chair in the country. She wants to help President Biden win over young and rural voters in her state next November.

Dr. Mandy Cohen testifying before a congressional committee as a leader of Medicare and Medicaid. More recently, the new director of the CDC headed North Carolina's health department.

The painful pandemic lessons Mandy Cohen carries to the CDC

5:00am August 23, 2023

President Biden and others have lauded Mandy Cohen's pandemic leadership in North Carolina. Those in the state's most vulnerable communities tell a more nuanced story about the new CDC director.

A female red wolf is shown in its habitat at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C.

More endangered red wolves will be released in the U.S. under a legal settlement

1:20pm August 10, 2023

by Emily Olson

There were only an estimated seven red wolves left in the wild when a coalition of conservation organizations decided to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

National

An SUV strikes 6 migrant workers in Walmart parking lot in North Carolina

11:32pm July 30, 2023

by Ashley Westerman

Police are still working to identify the vehicle and driver in the Sunday afternoon incident.

An aerial view shows damage to a Pfizer pharmaceutical factory in Rocky Mount, N.C., from a tornado that struck on July 19. The plant produces many drugs used in hospitals.

Health & Safety

Tornado damage to Pfizer factory highlights vulnerabilities of drug supply

5:55pm July 27, 2023

by Sydney Lupkin

A tornado that ripped through a Pfizer plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., raised worries about shortages of medicines used in hospitals. The drugs include commonly used painkillers and anesthetics.

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Signage stands on the main gate to Camp Lejeune Marine Base outside Jacksonville, N.C., Friday, April 29, 2022.

National

3 found dead at North Carolina gas station are identified as Marines stationed nearby

1:42am July 26, 2023

by The Associated Press

The three men were found unresponsive Sunday morning in a privately owned car at a Speedway gas station in Hampstead, N.C. Medical authorities pronounced all three dead the same day.

Bridget Narsh at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Narsh's son has autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, and ADHD. In 2020, he spent more than 100 days at Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility. The state billed the family nearly $102,000 for the hospitalizations.

Health & Safety

A mom owed nearly $102,000 for her son's stay in a state mental health hospital

5:00am July 19, 2023

by Fred Clasen-Kelly

One North Carolina family's six-figure medical bill came from a state hospital. The attorney general, who is running for governor and says he's against high medical costs, tried to collect the debt.

Erica Payne, founder of Patriotic Millionaires, offers a crash course on economic inequality to residents of Whiteville, N.C. The group wants working-class voters to lobby Congress on raising the minimum wage and taxing the rich.

These millionaires want to tax the rich, and they're lobbying working-class voters

5:05am June 13, 2023

by Jennifer Ludden

A group called Patriotic Millionaires has failed to get Congress to raise their taxes or boost the minimum wage. Now they're taking their concerns about inequality to swing-state voters.