Increasingly plagued by reports of nursing home negligence, nursing home abuse, and nursing home deaths, North Carolina is combating the problem with a new four-star adult care center rating system that should keep families aware and nursing homes on their toes. Almost half of the 1,300 nursing homes across the state have been rated so…
State troopers say a man was killed Sunday after a car struck his moped and kept going. The hit and run happened early Sunday morning on Highway 264 near the intersection with Highway 30 in Pitt County. According to WITN News Troopers say that 51-year-old Linwood Webb, Jr. of Washington was thrown some 175 feet…
A Charlotte, North Carolina (NC) man is in Presbyterian Main hospital recovering from electric shock injuries he received while on the job. Nelson Pozo, a 51 year old employee of AEP Industries in Stallings, North Carolina (NC) was working Saturday night when he was struck by 460 volts of electricity. When the Stallings Police Department…
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Martray Proctor, 24, is now facing a North Carolina wrongful death lawsuit following the fatal crash he caused in April. The NC wrongful death suit seeks over $10,000 in damages and involves both the officer and the City of Charlotte. In April 2008, Proctor was responding to a police call when he…
My colleague Jim Lewis recently wrote an article about the latest ruling in the case of the hit and run spree that took place in North Carolina in 2004.