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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.

Raleigh police have charged a suspect in the July 8 robbery of a BB&T bank. Detectives have charged Stephen Brent Himes with robbery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the hold-up, which occurred at BB&T's Six Forks Road branch.

A North Carolina orthodontist is offering to pay trick-or-treaters to fork over their candy.

A high school student is jailed after a hammer attack on Friday. Raleigh Police say the scene of the crime was a modular classroom at Southeast Raleigh High School.

After four days of putting the campaigns of Gov. Mike Easley and the N.C. Democratic Party under the microscope, the State Board of Elections expects to decide today whether a criminal probe is needed.

The first hard winter wheat varieties bred and developed for production in the eastern United States have been released by the Agricultural Research Service .

Raleigh, North Carolina-based progressive metalcore quintet Between The Buried And Me will kick off a North American headlining tour on January 8, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Some are there because of the recession, and others despite it. Regardless, more young Americans than ever are in college - especially community college, according to a new report.