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Cooper Issues 6th Veto, Signs Sunday Alcohol Bill
Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed legislation that directed North Carolina regulators to approve spraying liquid collected under landfills into the air, saying it puts specific technology above possibly better options for health and safety.
The measure would make the Department of Environmental Quality approve a process called "aerosolization" for unclean wastewater collected within lined landfills. Regulatory approval would be optional for unlined landfills.
The veto is Cooper's sixth. The Republican-controlled legislature has overridden the previous five.
The Democratic governor also signed five other bills, including one that lets local governments pass ordinances to allow the sale of alcohol starting at 10 a.m. on Sundays, instead of noon.
North Carolina To Provide Public Voter Data To Fraud Panel
North Carolina's elections board will provide voter data requested last week by President Donald Trump's commission investigating alleged voter fraud. But the records will not include personal information deemed confidential.
Executive Director Kim Strach of the state election and ethics commission said Friday in a release that she recognizes the public's concerns about voter privacy, and that only data already considered public records will be provided. That includes a voter's name, address, political affiliation, demographic data and participation in past elections. No Social Security and driver's license numbers will be included.
Court: Duke Energy Can Pass $55M Cleanup Costs To Ohio Customers
The Ohio Supreme Court says Duke Energy is allowed to pass on the $55 million cost of cleaning up two polluted sites to its customers in the form of an added charge on their monthly bills.
Charlotte, Noth Carolina-based Duke Energy has been adding $1.67 to bills in Ohio for about three years to help pay for the cleanup of two long-closed facilities in Cincinnati. A spokeswoman says the charge will likely continue for two more years.
The Supreme Court ruled last week that cleanup costs can be treated like other business expenses.
NC Man Charged With Lying About Islamic State Plans
A North Carolina man is charged with lying to the FBI when he denied telling someone he planned to fly to Syria and wanted to help others fly there to support the Islamic State.
An indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charlotte charges 29-year-old Alexander Samuel Smith of Waxhaw with two counts of making a false statement to an agency of the United States.
The indictment says Smith began communicating in July 2014 with an FBI confidential source who identified himself as an Islamic State representative. It says Smith offered to get a "buddy pass" for the source through his girlfriend, who worked for a U.S. airline. It also says Smith wanted to travel to Syria.
Missing NC Airport Employee Found Alive In Virginia
A woman who disappeared from her job at a North Carolina airport has been found alive in Virginia.
Police for Raleigh-Durham International Airport said Sunday in a news release that 24-year-old Allison Cope was found alive in Virginia Beach, Virginia. RDU police say they have no other details.
Cope disappeared Monday from her job at RDU Airport. A statement from the airport on Thursday said Cope was seen at a gas station on Monday about an hour after she left airport property.
They saw no evidence she was under duress.
Former University Of North Carolina Chancellor Hardin Dies
A University of North Carolina chancellor who led the school into its third century while increasing faculty diversity has died. Paul Hardin III was 86.
A university news release said that Hardin died at his Chapel Hill home on Saturday after battling ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Hardin served as chancellor from 1988 to 1995. During that time he helped lead the school's years-long fundraising effort and celebration known as the Bicentennial Observance that culminated in late 1993.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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