A North Carolina man has been accused of stealing more than $5 million in federal crop insurance funds.

Families who live near a hog farm in Bladen County, N.C., have been complaining for decades about bad smells, flies and excessive chemical spraying.

While volunteers and crews work to clean up the storm damage, insurance adjusters are out assessing the loss and they have their hands full.

Guilford County crews now know that the EF2 tornado that struck Sunday afternoon left a nearly 1,000-foot-wide path of destruction on the city’s east side that stretched 16 miles.

The National Hurricane Center is making changes to its “cone of uncertainty” based on an improving forecast record. The cone is designed to show people where the center of a storm is likely to head.

Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine U.S. states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration has said.

Monday’s snowfall is just a memory; however, its dangerous impact persisted until late Tuesday morning. Multiple wrecks were reported Tuesday as slippery driving conditions met morning commuters.

A North Carolina pastor who said she had a crippling disease is being sued by her insurer, which says it found church Facebook photos of her going down a slide and playing Skee-Ball.

The Coast Guard is warning mariners about navigation hazards after 70 cargo containers fell off a ship near the coast of North Carolina Saturday night.

Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.

The family of an 11-year old Rock Hill boy who died from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Best Western hotel in Boone in 2013 has agreed to settle wrongful death and injury suits against the hotel chain and other parties for $12 million, attorneys for the family said in a news release Monday.

County manager Dena Diorio said Tuesday night that the hacker has essentially frozen the county’s electronic files. The hacker is seeking $23,000 for an encryption key that would release the files.

Flash flooding in Boone caused major damage to units in at least three different apartment complexes along Cedar Creek near Meadowview. The area is between the Boone Mall and the Walmart shopping areas. Dozens of cars at the units and at Walmart were inundated by the water.

Severe weather is threatening 30 million people across the Northeast. A powerful line of storms is expected to bring heavy rain, wind, and flooding. The system already has battered the Carolinas and parts of Virginia. Intense wind flipped planes and crumpled hangars at a small airport northwest of Charlotte.

The Carolinas have some cleaning up to do after being slammed by severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and flooding and possible tornadoes that flipped tractor-trailers and small planes, broke storefront windows and pushed one house off its foundation.