The federal government told credit reporting agencies they could relax investigations into consumers' disputes during the pandemic. At the same time, complaints against the agencies more than doubled from the previous year.
DNA paternity labs are not regulated by the FDA; rather, there is a voluntary accreditation process. The records about those labs are kept largely under wraps.
In many states, vehicle repossessions decreased in 2020 due to the pandemic - particularly in states that issued moratoriums. Consumer law experts worry many Americans are about to face losing their cars.
Common errors include prescribers mixing up similar sounding prescription names, pharmacists giving the wrong medication to the wrong patient and patients misunderstanding dosing instructions.
Nurse practitioners are questioning their own education at some colleges. There’s no national standard on how to educate nurse practitioners, while medical education for doctors was standardized more than 100 years ago.
On Monday, former detention center officers Christina Miles and Gregory Butler, and their supervisor, Christopher Hendershott, were charged with four counts of cruelty to prisoners, four counts of corporal punishment to an inmate and four counts of conspiracy.
The congregation had switched to virtual services because of the coronavirus pandemic. The so-called Zoom ``bombers'' had identified themselves as white supremacists.
An investigative report by the state auditor is leveling several accusations of wrong doing by Rocky Mount city officials concerning tens of thousands of dollars.
The FBI is asking residents and business owners in a Robeson County to turn over surveillance video that could help locate a 13-year-old girl who was kidnapped earlier this month.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating after a woman alleged that she was denied the opportunity to file a police report after she was drugged at a Charlotte bar.
Search warrants unsealed after The Associated Press and other media organizations intervened show authorities are investigating a sheriff's candidate in Catawba County for possible violation of misdemeanors of stalking, cyberstalking and willfully failing to discharge duties.
Searchers in South Carolina used dogs specially trained to find bodies and ground penetrating radar to try to find a North Carolina woman missing for 23 years.
