Category: North Carolina

Investigators Visit North Carolina Amusement Park After Closing Roller Coaster Because of Crack

RALEIGH, N.C.—State investigators were on site Monday at a North Carolina amusement park after a crack was discovered on a support beam on one of their popular roller coasters. Tommy Petty, chief of the state Department of Labor’s Amusement Device Bureau, said investigators from his department “already came and went” from the Carowinds roller coaster…


Contractor for Bud Light Maker Anheuser-Busch Shuts Down 2 Bottling Plants

A major contractor for Bud Light maker Anheuser-Busch is shutting down two of its glass bottling plants in North Carolina and Louisiana, laying off about 600 employees, amid declining sales of the beer. The Ardagh Group, headquartered in Luxembourg, is one of the largest glass producers in the world with more than 100 plants in operation. In a…


Court Rulings Uphold Abortion Bans in Indiana, North Carolina

Abortion bans in the states of Indiana and North Carolina will take effect following court rulings on Friday. In Indiana, the state’s Supreme Court ruled that the state’s abortion ban doesn’t violate the state constitution, and lifted a preliminary injunction that had been blocking a near-total abortion ban. Indiana was the first U.S. state to…


Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Program

The Supreme Court voted 6–3 on June 30 to strike down President Joe Biden’s controversial plan to partially forgive student loans. The six conservative justices voted to invalidate the program in the closely watched case, while the three liberal justices voted to uphold it. Biden unveiled the plan in August 2022 in a move critics…


Delta Plane Lands With Nose on Runway at Charlotte Airport

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Passengers aboard a Delta flight disembarked using the jet slide Wednesday after the plane’s front landing gear failed to deploy as it landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The flight landed safely and no injuries were reported, according to officials. Photos from the scene show wheels on the ground under the wings, but the…


Pilot Killed When Small Plane Hits North Carolina Home, 3 Inside Unharmed, Officials Say

SOUTHPORT, N.C.—A pilot was killed when a single-engine plane crashed into a home a few blocks from an airport in coastal North Carolina on Sunday, and three people in the home escaped without injury, officials said. Firefighters found the plane fully engulfed in flames, with the exterior of the home burning, too, Southport Fire Chief…


Putin Breaks Silence as Biden Distances US From Russia’s Internal Conflict

President Joe Biden made his first public comments on the mutiny in Russia. What did he say, and what’s next in the short-lived rebellion by Wagner mercenaries? Did Attorney General Merrick Garland lie to Congress? That’s a question the GOP says could lead to an impeachment inquiry over the Department of Justice’s handling of investigations…


Worker Dead After Explosion at North Carolina Plant

WADESBORO, N.C.—One worker is dead after an explosion at a North Carolina plant, according to a county official. Firefighters called to the Darling Ingredients rendering plant in the Wadesboro area around 9 p.m. Thursday found a plume of smoke, Anson County Emergency Services Chief Rodney Diggs said. After air monitoring determined that there wasn’t a…


North Carolina Passes Bill Banning Biological Male Athletes From Competing on Girls’ Sports Teams

Biological males who identify as female would be banned from competing in girls’ middle school, high school, and college sports under a new bill approved by the North Carolina state House on June 22. The Republican-controlled House voted 62–43 to approve an amended version of the bill passed in the state Senate just days earlier by a vote of…


Mobile Home Fire Kills 5 in North Carolina, Including a Couple, Their Friend and His Boys

BROADWAY, N.C.—Authorities have identified five people who died in a mobile home fire in a rural North Carolina town Sunday as a husband and wife, a family friend and his two young sons. The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims as homeowners Michael Breymeyer, 74, and his wife, Tammy Breymeyer, 58; Daniel Garner, 39,…