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RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson reached a $4,711,159 consent judgment with Steven Osbey of Kernersville for fraud against the state’s Medicaid program.

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Congressman Troy Nehls (R-Texas-22), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, introduced the Supersonic Aviation Modernization (SAM) Act, to require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator to issue regulations to legalize civil supersonic flight in the United States. 

North Carolina House Republicans are moving a bill that would curb Gov. Josh Stein’s ability to appoint new district attorneys, calling a last-minute committee hearing Tuesday to advance the legislation.

North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in Tuesday after a six-month wait, bringing to an end a months-long saga that saw tens of thousands of ballots challenged and ultimately counted.

My son, Nicholas, is autistic and intellectually disabled. He is 24, and he needs help in areas most nondisabled people take for granted, including self-care, communication, ensuring his safety, and forming relationships and connections. For the past 15 years, Nicholas has received invaluable help from a public program made possible by Medicaid that supports people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Every day, I hear from people across North Carolina—teachers, small business owners, young professionals, and retirees—who feel like the ground is shifting under their feet. They’re working hard, raising families, planning futures. 

RALEIGH – Today, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that he is leading a bipartisan, multistate coalition of attorneys general targeting the Chinese-owned messaging and payment platform WeChat over its connection to money laundering and fentanyl trafficking in the United States. 

RALEIGH — Recessions hurt. North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate hit 11.2% during the peak of the Great Recession in 2010. During the COVID-era Great Suppression of 2020, it briefly hit a mindboggling 14.2%.

NC House Huddle newsletter for the week of May 9th

Raleigh, N.C. – On Tuesday, May 13, Justice Allison Riggs will be certified as the winner of the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election.