Columbus News

The N.C. Chamber wants the state to rein in future unemployment benefits and issue bonds to pay off the $2.4 billion in debt the state owes the federal government – money that it borrowed to pay benefits to jobless workers.

RALEIGH, NC - North Carolina social workers received nearly 20,000 reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of elderly folks across the state in 2011.

This is a review of author Judy Carroll 's Human by Day, Zeta by Night: A Dramatic Account of Greys Incarnating as Humans .

Beth Revis, author of 'A Million Suns,' pictured, will be joined by Megan Miranda, author of 'Fracture,' for an event at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe in Asheville at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Erin Smith, Staff Writer The State of North Carolina has released the unemployment figures for December and Bladen experienced a slight increase over November.