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Tropical Storm Ophelia makes landfall near Emerald Isle, North Carolina, United States.
2023-09-23

The United States Department of Justice closes an insider trading probe into U.S. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina without making him face any criminal charges.
2021-01-19

The death toll rises to 35. Also, about 3.4 million chickens and turkeys and 5,500 hogs were killed in flooding from Hurricane Florence as rising North Carolina rivers swamped dozens of farm buildings where the animals were being raised for market.
2018-09-18

The death toll rises to at least 32, as flooding continues to inundate North Carolina.
2018-09-17

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs an order banning all non-essential travel to North Carolina, i.e., travel not necessary for the enforcement of New York state law, public health, and-or safety, following the state's passage of a law blocking local governments from passing anti-discrimination ordinances.
2016-03-28

One person is shot and killed by a policeman at the Northlake Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina.
2015-12-24

Marcus Robinson, due to have been executed in 2007, is ordered off death row after North Carolina Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks rules his trial was tainted by racial bias, grounds for cancellation of a death sentence under the state's Racial Justice Act. The judge used controversial statistical evidence of bias to grant the change of sentence.
2012-04-20

The storm reaches New York City with 370,000 people having been evacuated from low-lying areas.
2011-08-28

A state of emergency is declared in a number of states including North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut as well as the city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland.
2011-08-26

Thousands of people on Ocracoke Island off the U.S. state of North Carolina are told to evacuate ahead of the arrival of the hurricane later in the week. [http:--thechronicleherald.ca-World-1259879.html (AP via "The Chronicle-Herald")]date=August 2019
2011-08-24