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Tropical Storm Chris Brings North Carolina Swimming Warnings
Tropical Storm Chris has prompted warnings to swimmers and surfers in North Carolina.
The National Weather Service does not have any tropical storm or hurricane warnings in effect in North Carolina. But forecasters said swimming could be dangerous from the Outer Banks to the Wilmington area beaches on Monday.
The weather service said conditions could create currents than can sweep swimmers and surfers into rip currents or piers and jetties.
The storm is expected to be stationary for the next day or so. It is expected to move northeast beginning late Tuesday.
North Carolina Consumers Could See $5B Coal-Ash Cleanup Bill
A string of decisions by North Carolina regulators means electricity consumers could be picking up a multibillion-dollar tab.
The money is meant to clean up waste Duke Energy created by burning coal to produce power.
Last month, state regulators decided that Duke Energy could charge ratepayers the first $778 million chunk of a cleanup projected to cost about $5 billion.
But North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein says he's going to court to try to stop the company from passing along those costs.
Democrats May Reject Republican Convention In Charlotte
Some members of Charlotte's Democratic dominated City Council are suggesting they should turn down the 2020 Republican National Convention if the party chooses the North Carolina city later this month.
The members told The Charlotte Observer their concerns aren't entirely political. Some worry dangerous protesters could take over the city. Others say President Donald Trump is too divisive of a figure and a Republican convention when he isn't in office would be fine.
The Republican National Committee is meeting July 17-20. Few cities have made public bids for the 2020 convention. Charlotte has only been joined by Las Vegas.
Cooper Promises Full Hurricane Matthew Recovery To Lumbees
Gov. Roy Cooper is promising people in southern North Carolina he will do all he can to make sure they recover from flooding from Hurricane Matthew.
Cooper spoke Saturday at the last day of the 50th annual Lumbee Homecoming at UNC-Pembroke. The Native American tribe is headquartered in Robeson County.
Cooper says along with making sure to secure all the recovery money he can for Hurricane Matthew, he will also fight for better education, health care and more money in people's pockets.
School Official Pleads Guilty To Harboring Immigrants
A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the school she ran in Charlotte. Authorities say she concealed foreign athletes from immigration officials.
Evelyn Mack pleaded guilty to felony charges of concealing, harboring or shielding unlawful aliens.
Authorities say she took foreign teens coveted by basketball recruiters and enrolled them in her small private school.
Court documents indicate that she falsely represented about 75 teens as students in the Evelyn Mack Academy, taking about one thousand dollars per player from recruiters to do so.
She has run the school since 2000, and was authorized to enroll high school students under F1 visas. Authorities say she entered false information into the Department of Homeland Security system to avoid detection by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Record 89-Degree Water Temp Recorded Off North Carolina Coast
A long spell of hot, humid weather had the ocean off the southeastern North Carolina coast feeling more like bathwater.
The National Weather Service said the water was 89 degrees Fahrenheit at Johnnie Mercers Fishing Pier in Wrightsville Beach on Friday.
That's the warmest the water has been since measurements were first taken in 2004.
National Weather Service meteorologist Steven Pfaff told the StarNews of Wilmington that the record water temperature was caused by the hot, humid air over the region which never allowed temperatures to dip much.
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