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Alcohol is a $720 million a year business in North Carolina, and state law allows North Carolina government to have a monopoly on sales.

People are already lining up to replace Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand one day after he announced he was leaving the Legislature for North Carolina's parole commission.

Arrests a Daniel Martinez, 31, of 492 Merriam St. was served with an order for arrest on Nov.

An Israeli foam manufacturing company is investing more than $7 million to open a North Carolina facility and add 72 jobs.

Franklin County police said a young girl was found wandering near a busy road eating wood , WSMV-TV reported.

A Pennsylvania man is dead after his motorcyle ran off the road in Peters Township on Thursday afternoon.

Section 8 housing has gotten a bad reputation. Those were the words of Sharon Sneed, of Franklin-Vance-Warren Opportunity, to the City Council in an informational talk about the Section 8 program at a council work session on Monday.

More than four years after a Franklin County man was mistakenly declared dead in a traffic accident and sent to the morgue in a body bag, his family has reached a $1 million legal settlement against the county and two paramedics.

The US Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against Franklin County, alleging the county retaliated against a former employee who claimed she was sexually harassed.

I drove by my old elementary school a couple of years ago and had to stop and take a few photos.

More than 200 model airplane pilots from several states will come to southern Franklin County this weekend for the annual Fly for Tots charity fly-in. The fly-in will feature aerobatic demonstrations, biplane dogfights and even remote-controlled jets flying at 200 mph.

Bill Morrison spent more than 33 years working as an entertainment editor and writer with The News & Observer, getting paid to review movies and plays, watching television and interviewing celebrities.

Arrests a Charles Hunter, 48, of 216 Antler Drive, Murfreesboro, was arrested Aug.

Community members look at posters displaying possible changes to K-68 highway east of I-35 and west of Louisburg during a planing meeting at the Franklin County Office Annex building, 1418 S. Main St., Ottawa.

Authorities in three central North Carolina communities spent the Labor Day holiday on the search for missing people.

Roger Wade Ayscue, 40, is the subject of a Silver Alert issued on Friday afternoon.

Published: Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 9:09 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 9:09 a.m. Authorities say a boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute two years ago has been found alive, hidden behind a wall at his grandmother's southern Illinois home.

Pocket that vacation money and stick around town this Labor Day weekend as the North Carolina Brothers of the Third Wheel trikers hosts the 2009 East Coast Trike-In at the Burke County Fairgrounds.

An early morning fire destroyed a grocery store in southern Warren County on Friday.