by WSIC News | Mar 21, 2023 | WSIC State News
U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) recently introduced the bipartisan Farm Operations Support Act, legislation that would revert the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) to the December 2022 rate for the remainder of 2023. The AEWR in North Carolina...
by WSIC News | Mar 20, 2023 | WSIC State News
WNCN is reporting that Goldsboro police are investigating after a 7-month-old baby boy was brought to a hospital on Sunday, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The incident was reported as a child death on Sunday just after 1:25pm at UNC Health Wayne hospital,...
by WSIC News | Mar 20, 2023 | WSIC State News
WNCN is reporting that firefighters discovered a self-inflicted gunshot shooting victim while responding to a small fire at a Cary home yesterday, according to the Cary Police Department. A neighbor called 9-1-1. When fire crews arrived, they said they found a fire in...
by WSIC News | Mar 20, 2023 | WSIC State News
Average gas prices in North Carolina have fallen five cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.20/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 6,092 stations in North Carolina. Prices in the state are 1.9 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and 87.9...
by WSIC News | Mar 20, 2023 | WSIC State News
Unemployment rates (not seasonally adjusted) increased in 99 of North Carolina’s counties in January 2023 and decreased in one. Hyde County had the highest unemployment rate at 10.1 percent while Greene, Buncombe, and Orange Counties each had the lowest at 3.0...
by WSIC News | Mar 20, 2023 | WSIC State News
U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) led a bipartisan group of senators in questioning the Federal Reserve about clear warning signs ahead of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. The Senators urged that as part of this investigation, the Fed...
