The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled, 4-2, that 220,000 state government retirees had a contractual right to premium-free health care benefits that had been promised to them. Now a trial court will have to determine whether state changes to those benefits a decade ago violated the contract.
Thanks to three new contracts awarded by the N.C. Department of Transportation, totaling nearly $11 million, about 70 miles of area roadway will be resurfaced.
