There’s enough support in a North Carolina House committee to limit the state’s motorcycle helmet requirement to just those people under age 21. The House transportation panel agreed Tuesday to give adults the option to ride without a helmet if …
Thieves keep taking manhole covers in Gastonia, N.C., to sell as scrap metal, even with a new state law requiring business to document and photograph all metal they buy. Gastonia officials told The Gaston Gazette that between 30 and 50 …
Lingering guilt may have been what moved someone who filed an insurance claim 40 years ago to come clean with a Gastonia, N.C., insurance agency. The Gaston Gazette reports that whoever took a $280 claim check in 1973 felt guilty …
A North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Charlotte, its airport and an airline by the family of a teen who apparently fell to his death from the wheel well of a jet approaching Boston. Superior Court Judge …
North Carolina’s top state insurance regulator signed an agreement Tuesday allowing companies to raise homeowner’s insurance policies by a statewide average of 7 percent a year starting in July. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin agreed to a rate increase for less …
Payments for hospital outpatient services to treat injured workers in North Carolina stabilized, following reforms passed to reduce outpatient hospital costs. However, ongoing growth in charges could mean resumption of growth in payments, according to a new study of medical …
A federal judge says a jury will decide who is at fault for signs directing visitors to popular sites around Asheville, N.C., that started peeling shortly after being installed nearly three years ago. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports U.S. Judge Martin …
Officials plan controlled burns at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune to reduce the possibility of forest fires. The Camp Lejeune Environmental Management Division has started lighting fires on forestry parts of the base and will continue the process for the next …
John Ingram, former North Carolina insurance commissioner who made runs for governor and the U.S. Senate, has died. He was 83. Charles Brown said his brother-in-law died at his Myrtle Beach home Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Ingram was …
A divided auto insurance industry will try again to change a unique regulatory system in North Carolina, which enjoys some of the lowest rates in the country. The industry will use the argument that average costs are low because the …