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The state says the company didn’t notify them of the spill, as is required under the terms of their permit, and that the irrigation fields need maintenance and the vegetative cover in the sprayfields needs improvement.
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The bill comes in response to recent protests on college campuses in which some of the protesters wore face masks. -
A program called the Innovations Waiver provides a range of services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program helps pay for things like in-home caregivers and service dogs. -
A Peace Officers Memorial Observance in Jacksonville will begin at 10 a.m. at the Jacksonville Public Safety Remembrance Garden behind the Center for Public Safety. -
Inmates with mental illness often wait months for care to give them a shot at being deemed capable to assist in their defense. Disability Rights North Carolina wants a judge to order the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to take immediate steps to drastically reduce those times. -
Alphonso Murray, the owner of Murray’s Auto World in Wilson, was charged with insurance fraud, obtaining property by false pretense and two counts of car title application fraud, all felonies. -
Attorney General Josh Stein said former Cherokee County DSS attorney Scott Lindsay was convicted of 12 counts of felony obstruction of justice and two counts of misdemeanor obstruction of justice.
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