HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina city is suing three companies over the collapse of decorative, 40-ton wooden arches along a pedestrian walkway in February. The lawsuit was filed by the city of Hickory in Catawba County Superior Court ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina family has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines saying a turbulent and aborted landing in 2019 caused injuries and forced the family to forgo much of a planned vacation. Roger Brunton and Dawn ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — A pulp and paper mill in South Carolina emits fumes that smells like rotten eggs and which nearby residents say have caused headaches and sore throats, a North Carolina homeowner says in a lawsuit. Kenny White, who ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A former North Carolina state senator and a Wake County man have settled a lawsuit accusing the ex-lawmaker of breaking up the man’s marriage to the legislator’s aide, attorneys said on Tuesday. Arthur Johns sued then-Sen. Rick ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses a doctor of secretly inserting a device into a woman during surgery that she claims stopped her from getting pregnant. The decision against Kimberly Bryant’s lawsuit ...

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A North Carolina-based adult sex toy and accessories retail chain has been sued on allegations that job applicants are denied sales jobs at stores because they are men. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit last week on ...

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By EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The private Christian school that novelist Nicholas Sparks founded in his North Carolina hometown was gripped by one small crisis after another and demanding too much of his attention until ...

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A former police officer says a North Carolina town’s police chief touched him inappropriately days before he died by suicide. The News & Observer reports Nicholas Zappia sued the town of Rolesville on Monday, seeking unspecified damages. The lawsuit says ...

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GREENSBORO (AP) A federal judge is keeping alive a lawsuit accusing the country’s second-largest electricity company of violating water pollution laws by allowing potentially toxic coal ash sludge into neighboring waterways. U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs ruled this week that ...

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DURHAM (AP) A North Carolina judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by the woman who gained attention for accusing a group of Duke University lacrosse players of raping her at a party. The Herald-Sun of Durham reports 40-year-old Crystal Mangum filed lawsuits ...

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