Carolina News

Iowa was one of seven states recently honored for programs to help prepare students for the workplace.

Authorities said Monday night that the man now identified as the Cherokee County serial killer had a lengthy criminal history that spanned several states.

Virginia's pro-business environment has garnered the Commonwealth another top national ranking.

The chairman and chief executive officer of the company that plans to buy Verizon's West Virginia wire line business will be the keynote speaker at the Fund for Concord University dinner Nov.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. "Oh my!" That was the thought running through Caroline Kirby's mind last June when she heard that her boyfriend cycled 250 miles across West Virginia to raise money for 4-H camp scholarships.

For the first time since the program's inception, seven states have received the 21st Century Skills Practice of the Year Award, which commemorates the country's preeminent state-led education reform initiatives.

For almost nine years residents in several Marion County towns have been dealing with a faulty sewage system.

A special prosecutor has been named for the third trial of a Huttonsville man accused of killing a South Carolina man in 2007.

In the Old West, cowboys rode their best horses to separate, or "cut," individual cows from the herd.

Spending a summer weekend listening to music will help to ensure a safe school for hundreds of children? How? The Mountain Aid concert June 19-20, 2009 at Shakori Hills Farm in Chatham County, North Carolina, will benefit Pennies of Promise, a grassroots campaign to construct a new building for Marsh Fork Elementary School in West Virginia.

The second of four men accused in the death of a South Carolina man two years ago is sentenced for his involvement.

A Marion County judge has postponed the third trial of a man accused of murder in Fairmont.

A new study has found that young drivers who are gradually given full driving privileges are less likely to be injured in car crashes than counterparts who don't have such "graduated" driver's licenses.

Southeast Raleigh High linebacker Kendall Moore is collecting scholarship offers the way some people do trading cards.

A Kentucky native who allegedly robbed a Princeton bank in 2007 and was later named to the United States Marshals Service "15 Most Wanted" list has been recaptured after escaping from a North Carolina jail.

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department is keeping an especially close watch on one member of a trio of federal prisoners who were arrested in Charleston this morning after escaping from a North Carolina jail.

" Several hundred members of the North Carolina Army National Guard's 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team left Pope Air Force Base for Iraq on Wednesday.

Wise Recycling plans to move into a larger facility and expand its operations, a company official confirmed Thursday.

A West Virginia native was among eight people killed by a gunman at a North Carolina nursing home over the weekend.

Robert Patrick Myers was returned to West Virginia on Saturday evening. The Clarksburg police say the authorities in North Carolina arrested Myers in a drive-by shooting in Adamston in January.