Michael Perchick News Today

Families and former hostages join NC politicians to share their stories and call for the immediate release of Jewish and American hostages.

The 2023 ABC11 Raleigh Christmas Parade presented by Shop Local Raleigh kicks off on November 18 in downtown Raleigh.

A standoff happened in a Fayetteville residential area; police surrounded a home holding a man wanted for first-degree murder.

Last week, Republicans overrode the Governor's veto on the legislation, which bans the procedure in NC after 12 weeks with some exceptions.

Teretha Wilson and McArthur Bryant raise their 10-year-old son Tamarion to call their elders “ma’am” and “sir.” That politeness got the fifth grader in trouble...

Colonial Pipeline shutdown prompts ‘panic buying,’ fuel shortages at gas stations across East Coast Nelson Oliveira Long lines began forming at gas stations across the East Coast this week as panicked drivers worry about supply shortages and higher prices following the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, a major U.S. fuel artery that was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend. Photos and videos shared on social media showed drivers lining up for gas in the Carolinas, Georgia a...

To be fair to the Times, this story was published yesterday and so maybe at the time it was written this paragraph was true? Since the pipeline shutdown, there have been no long lines at gasoline stations, and because many traders expected the interruption to be brief, the market reaction was muted. Nationwide, the price of regular gasoline climbed by only half a cent to $2.97 on Monday from Sunday, even though the company could not set a timetable for restarting the pipeline. New York State pr...

Despite the Times’ claims that “there have been no long lines at gasoline stations” and “the market reaction was muted,” people on the East Coast are struggling to come to terms with the effects of the shutdown. The attack on the 5,500-mile pipeline stretching from New Jersey to Houston happened last week, and by Monday night, people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and other states were struggling to find fuel. In Virginia, 6.5 percent of gas stations were out of fuel befo...