Four US officers killed in North Carolina shooting

Four law enforcement officers were killed and another four were shot and wounded in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a suspect was found dead, police said yesterday.

5 killed, including police officer, in North Carolina shooting, suspected gunman is in custody

Five people have been killed by a gunman who opened fire along a walking trail in North Carolina in the United States and eluded officers for hours before he was cornered in a home and arrested, police said.

US Death Toll from Hurricane Ian Surpasses 100

 At least 105 people were killed in the US states of Florida and North Carolina by Hurricane Ian, US media reported on Monday.

State of emergency declared in Charlotte as unrest continues

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, said Thursday that a person who earlier had been declared dead from the impact of bullets during racial protests in the city was in still alife, on life support and in critical condition.

At the height of the Cold War, the US almost nuked ... itself. - How close the US came to an inadvertent nuclear detonation in 1961

The U.S. Air Force came perilously close to leveling a large part of North Carolina in a 1961 nuclear mishap, with a single toggle switch stopping an accidentally dropped bomb from detonating, newly declassified documents show.
A document published for the first time by the Guardian newspaper Friday details how narrowly the state escaped becoming ground zero for the inadvertent explosion after an H-bomb fell from the midair wreckage of a disintegrating bomber.
The accident happened on Jan. 25, 1961 -- mere days after the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, who as president had his own more publicized brush with the reality of nuclear detonation a year later during the flashpoint with the Soviet Union that was the Cuban Missile Crisis.