A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
On this day in 2018, a federal jury awarded more than $470 million to six neighbors of a Pender County hog farm, who argued successfully that their lives were disrupted by flies, buzzards and an oppressive stink.
Jurors that day handed down the third judgment against pork producer Murphy-Brown, though state laws capped the damages far below what money the juries granted…