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The owner of Coharie Farms, a troubled hog company based in Clinton and one of the largest pork producers in the country, will be in a federal courtroom today to discuss the company's recent decision to file for bankruptcy.

John Hood RALEIGH - The 2009 election cycle is a prime example of how political trends are sometimes hard to spot when they're approaching, hard to describe when they arrive, and hard to flag when they've run their course.

A North Carolina man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 10-month-old infant girl.

9 8:24 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/44269/ WAKE COUNTY, N.C. - Raleigh and Cary rank among the most dangerous metropolitan areas in the country for pedestrians, according to a new report by the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership and Transportation for America.

North Carolina tobacco growers have reached agreement with China on the sale of 52 million pounds of tobacco leaf - a sign of the increasing importance of the Chinese market for tobacco produced in the United States.

A pepper spray prank at a McDonald's restaurant in North Carolina sent six people to the hospital while 25 others were treated by emergency medical personnel at the scene.

Raleigh-based PRA International has moved its South Korean operations into larger office space in Seoul to accommodate the clinical research organization's rapid business growth in the region.

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North Carolina's highest court says three cigarette companies can stop making payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania through a decade-old settlement.

Critics of North Carolina's plan to spend thousands in federal stimulus money to send consultants to a workshop say the funds would be better spent on subsidizing child care for struggling families.

The national president of the NAACP said Thursday too many North Carolina residents lack health insurance for people on Capitol Hill to delay passage of a health care overhaul bill until 2010.

Wake County health officials said Thursday 9,900 doses of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine have arrived and they'll open five clinics on Monday, November 9 to distribute them.

North Carolina and national Muslim leaders want police to investigate if continuing vandalism to a Durham mosque is a possible hate crime.

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Several dozen legislators are back in Raleigh to discuss North Carolina's tax structure and whether an overhaul can be approved as soon as next spring.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced up to $338 million in Recovery Act funding for the exploration and development of new geothermal fields and research into advanced geothermal technologies.

Shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, Raleigh Police Department officers responded to a shots-fired call in the 5900 block of Shadetree Lane.

Struggling to improve schools with large populations of poor and minority students, and under legal pressure to avoid racial busing, a small but growing group of school districts is integrating schools by income.

A man was shot to death Saturday off Pleasant Valley Road, between Glenwood Avenue and Millbrook Road, in northwest Raleigh, police said.

Some have fared well, while others have busted. A lone house sits among empty, unsold lots in a subdivision in Tavares, Fla.