Latest from North Carolina

Boy, 5, dies at rotating restaurant

Family speak of loss after boy suffers fatal head injury.

Plan to power aircraft with trash

Cathay Pacific has taken a stake in a company producing bio fuel out of city waste.

Tears as fallen soldier brought home

A heartbreaking video shows the moment a widow met her US Army veteran husband's coffin on the airport tarmac, leaving a plane full of passengers in tears.

Day care worker caught breastfeeding child

A North Carolina mother who works at the same day care centre caught another worker breastfeeding her 3-month-old son without permission.

Teen killed in 'rape-murder fantasy'

Grace Packer became a foster child at age 3. At age 14, she suffered a slow and painful death at the hands of those she was meant to trust.

Transgender bathroom ban stays put

North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature has rejected a bid to repeal a state law restricting bathroom access for transgender people.

Mass killer chuckled during confession

Dylann Roof wanted the world to know he hated black people and thought they were criminals. But he surprised himself with the scale of his church massacre

Santa quits after fat shaming nine-year-old boy

A man who was hired to portray Santa as resigned from the position, after fat-shaming a boy who visited him during a photo event last weekend.

Santa Claus 'fat-shames nine-year-old boy'

It could be a scene from Bad Santa. A nine-year-old boy says a St Nick in the US told him to "lay off the burgers".