RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 16 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein announced today that Valerie Ann Sinclair of Fayetteville pleaded guilty to 21 counts of obtaining property by false pretenses in Moore County Superior Court. Judge Regina M. Joe ordered Sinclair to surrender her clinical mental health counselor supervisor license and pay $71,046.04 in restitution to the North Carolina Medicaid program. S  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 16 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting commonsense state and federal laws that keep communities safe. The brief, filed in U.S. v. Steven Perez, argues that federal laws to prevent people from transporting or receiving firearms from outside their home state are necessary to protect public safety, reduce violent crime, and suppo  more

DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 16 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP advised Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. (the "Company") on an SEC-registered offering of $375 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.10% Senior Notes due February 15, 2035. The Company, a North Carolina corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Duke Energy Corporation, is a regulated public utility primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to over 1.2 mi  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 16 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: Researchers have demonstrated a technique for printing thin metal oxide films at room temperature, and have used the technique to create transparent, flexible circuits that are both robust and able to function at high temperatures. "Creating metal oxides that are useful for electronics has traditionally required making use of specialized equipment that is slow, expensive, and operate  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Aug. 15 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The 2024 awardees of Penn State's Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research (IPDR) initiative comprise five collaborative projects that connect Penn State researchers with colleagues from Morgan State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the Uni  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Aug. 15 -- Wake Forest University issued the following news: FEATURED NEWS Deforestation harms climate less than other types of Amazon degradation, study finds By Jake Spring | Reuters A new study underscores the damage being done to the forest by fires after a drought that has made the region a tinderbox. The techniques used in the research give an unprecedented level of detail on forest degradation in the region of Brazil where destruction is most rampant, ac  more