North Carolina News

North Carolina governor candidate Pat McCrory is getting more help raising money from a sitting Republican governor, Nikki Haley of South Carolina.

A North Carolina bus driver is credited with saving the lives of 6 children, by evacuating them from the bus moments before it burst into flames.

A New York City murder suspect arrested after turning up on a jumbo screen at Charlotte Bobcats Arena is facing new charges: helping lead a 37-person check fraud ring accused of stealing more than $150,000. A New York City murder suspect arrested after turning up on a North Carolina sports arena's jumbo screen is facing new charges: helping lead a ... (more)

Federal regulators say they need more time deciding whether to stick with federal standards that could mean $12 million in rebates for more than 58,000 North Carolina residents who buy their own health insurance.

A statistician testifying at a hearing about North Carolina's Racial Justice Act says qualified black and white jurors have been seated on capital murder trials at about the same rate.

Leaders of the University of North Carolina system are close to voting on a proposal that would raise tuition and fees by more than $400 on average.

High turnover in the General Assembly is not unusual in a year after legislative districts are redrawn.

Between the sumptuous mohair sweaters, crisp khaki trench coats and vegetable-tanned leather pieces that we saw this morning at Organic by John Patrick 's fall 2012 show was a surprise element: slouchy tomboy jean shorts and pants from the boutique denim brand Raleigh Denim .

Disgraced Washington influence-peddler Jack Abramoff is telling a North Carolina audience about the Capitol Hill corruption in which he played a role.

Channel 9 Eyewitness News investigates how some dangerous sex offenders are not being tracked by the state of North Carolina.

Federal investigators arrested a North Carolina man for allegedly robbing a United States Postal Service driver of $5600 during a heist late last year in Belmont, a city outside Charlotte.

Representative Sue Myrick, the first Republican woman to represent North Carolina in Congress, announced Tuesday that she wouldA not seek re-election this year.

Here's my story: 1983. I had finished graduate school in North Carolina and was looking for jobs in New York, collecting names of everybody and anybody in the journalism business.

The largest hospital in the North Carolina mountains has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that it performed medical procedures on a costly inpatient basis when they could have been done cheaper.

"After thoughtful discussion with my family, I have decided not to run for another term in Congress," the Congresswoman wrote in a post on Facebook and said in a video posted on YouTube.

Henderson County Commission Chairman Tommy Thompson said Monday that Sheriff Rick Davis' request has been granted by the state retirement system.

Republicans now in charge of the North Carolina Legislature are benefiting from newly-earned political power in their campaign coffers, too.

U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick of Charlotte says she won't run again for re-election to North Carolina's 9th Congressional District.

A North Carolina man convicted of child abuse in the death of his 2-year-old stepson has been found dead in a jail cell.

Led by Bishop Peter J. Jugis, Catholics in the Charlotte Diocese were protesting a newly opened play for its "gravely offensive" portrayal of Mary as a lesbian and its mocking of the virgin birth.