Two unruly customers were caught on surveillance throwing food and drinks.

A side effect of opioid use is an infection of the heart valves called drug-associated infective endocarditis. Researchers have found a tenfold increase in the number of hospitalizations and surgeries for endocarditis in the past decade.

Another officer in Tennessee was badly wounded hours later after being shot searching for suspect.

A North Carolina state trooper has been shot and killed, and a suspect is in custody.
State highway patrol spokesman Michael Baker says the suspect fired several shots as the trooper approached his vehicle during a traffic stop around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. He died at a local hospital.
Baker says...

A North Carolina State Trooper was shot and killed on a highway early Wednesday, according to a report.

A teen turned himself in Saturday after shooting a bullet through a road sign, which went into a wooded area, before fatally striking a retired U.S. Marine who was sitting on his porch in North Carolina earlier this month, authorities said. 

A 911 call released by officials in Cleveland County, North Carolina details how a man's arm was severely injured after his booby trap backfired.

The past year has been marked by storms of record ferocity, apocalyptic damage and thousands of deaths
Just two years after forced her to flee her home temporarily, Adrienne Kennedy has again had to pack her bags and leave. , which drenched the Carolinas last month, punched holes in Kennedy’s roof, causing it to collapse.
“You do get kind of hopeless,” said Kennedy, who is renting a place 30 miles away. It may take a year to return safely home to Lumberton, North Carolina. “I was born and raised there. I don’t see myself living anywhere else. You have to be proactive. But it’s all up in the air,” she said.