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Counties are starting to get their first payments from the more than $50 billion dollar windfall secured from drug manufacturers and pharmacies for their role in the opioid epidemic. A public radio collaborative investigated what programs are being funded.
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Recently unsealed case describes what they say is widespread use of unnecessary trauma alerts and added tests.
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State lawmakers are expected to legalize online sports betting this year. But it’s not the only change they’re considering making to gambling laws.
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Environmental advocates say the new land management plan from the U.S. Forest Service allows for too much logging in the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. The new document was released late last week after 10 years of planning.
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North Carolina's snowboarding scene is getting attention and has inspired another generation of riders. But the tradition has been there all along, even if the rest of the world didn't know it.
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The House Ethics Committee has told departing U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina to pay over $14,000 to charity. The committee determined Cawthorn financially benefited while purchasing a cryptocurrency that he was promoting and violated conflict of interest rules.
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North Carolina enacted a law early in the coronavirus pandemic that gave medical providers near-absolute immunity from civil liability. Now, the nation's largest for-profit health care system could use that law to quash a medical malpractice claim that has nothing to do with COVID. Some legislators say they want to revisit the law.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will distribute more than a million doses from northern Alabama to southwest Virginia. Most will be dropped from planes or helicopters.
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The parasites infect smallmouth bass and are only twice as long as a red blood cell.
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Early voting is underway across the state. Voters in half a dozen cities are choosing mayors and other municipal positions. The only elections here in Western North Carolina are runoffs. Graham County will choose a Republican sheriff and Jackson County will choose a school board seat.