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An effort to order manufacturers of "forever chemicals" to help North Carolina public water systems pay for upgrades to remove contaminants that a company discharged has been renewed in the General Assembly.

Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting have narrowly rejected a proposal to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination's constitution. Opponents argued the proposal was unnecessary because the SBC already has a way of ousting such churches.

Ten players from North Carolina State's 1983 national champion basketball team have sued the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Company seeking compensation for unauthorized use of their name, image and likeness. The players filed suit in Wake County Superior Court, requesting a jury trial and "reasonable compensation."

Authorities in North Carolina say a man was shot and killed after a confrontation with a sheriff's deputy outside of a hospital. News outlets report that the shooting happened early Monday in a parking lot of UNC Health Johnston in Clayton.

U.S. National Park Service officials say an unoccupied house has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks. Tuesday's collapse was the sixth along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the past four years.

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a North Carolina man to 25 years in prison for teaching someone how to make bombs meant to kill federal law enforcement officers. A jury found Christopher Arthur, 40, guilty in 2023 for the bomb-related charges, as well as for illegally possessing weapons, including improvised explosives found on his farm in Mount Olive, North Carolina.

A red-light camera program in one North Carolina city has been declared lawful, even though it was discontinued after another appeals court decided it was unconstitutional. The North Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a March 2022 Court of Appeals opinion that had struck down Greenville's program.

The final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina's flagship public university has died. Ralph Frasier died last week in Florida at age 85.

Friends, colleagues and the wife of fallen Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer are remembering him as a hard-charging outwardly stern cop who also peppered friends with "how's things" texts and showered love on his wife and young son. Thousands packed the sanctuary at Charlotte's First Baptist Church on Friday for Eyer's memorial service.

United Methodist delegates have repealed their church's longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy. The action marked the final major repeal of a half-century's collection of LGBTQ bans and disapprovals that were embedded in the laws and social teachings of the United Methodist Church.