North Carolina News

Velva Jean is the name of the main character in a series of novels by Jennifer Niven.

Liberty University's Chancellor is standing behind a North Carolina high school student who was expelled last month for bringing two guns to school.

A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.

As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears.

"I don't want wondering or worrying, will today be the day I become a victim of sexual assault?" U.S. Sen.

An autopsy shows the body of a Clayton woman found inside her car after it was towed to an impound lot had a blood-alcohol level of 0.18 percent, and suggests she may not have lived long after the crash.

Pella residents came together Friday night to remember a star athlete and honor student whose death left the entire town in mourning.

The North Carolina NAACP will continue its 1960s style sit-in protests at the General Assembly on Monday.

Just as in other states, the dispute centers on timber harvesting certification and whether LEED shows an unfair bias toward the Forest Stewardship Council Some North Carolina legislators are upset by the fact that the Forest Stewardship Council is the only lumber certification program mentioned specifically in the LEED guidelines.

Ramsey is accused of failing to file North Carolina Individual Income Tax Returns for tax years 2009, 2010, and 2011, according to information from the N.C. Department of Revenue.

The automatic budget cuts that grounded the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds are taking a toll on performers, air show announcers, concessionaires, vendors and others who depend on air shows and the millions of spectators.

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In North Carolina, where the overall unemployment rate was 9.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 , African American families continue to bear the brunt of that economic pain.

If North Carolina ever puts toll booths on an existing interstate, the House still wants to give motorists the option to drive the route for free.

A tax code overhaul plan unveiled by House Republicans puts them at odds with Senate counterparts on how many transactions should be subject to North Carolina's sales tax.

The tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases is set to be rolled out in the United States, and getting smarter about ICD-10 is critical for all industry stakeholders.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has announced that Idalene "Idie" Kesner will head the school as its next dean, pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees.

Richard Watkins, son of Jan Williams and Pat Watkins of Midway, graduated from Armstrong Atlantic State University on May 4. He received his bachelor's of science degree in chemistry magna cum laude, grade-point average above 3.5. Watkins has been accepted into the doctorate program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and expects to ... (more)

Franklin Graham says the IRS did not limit itself to targeting groups with tea party and patriot in their names.

A 22-member task force began Wednesday the intricate process of examining how the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill handles campus sexual assault cases and how administrators can improve that system.