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The Swansboro Parks and Recreation Department has been awarded a $3,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina as part of the Nourishing North Carolina initiative.

The NC Omega Beta Chapter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the University's award for "Most Campus Involvement." The Brothers at NC Omega Beta are involved in a gamut of organizations, Student Government, IFC, Honor Court, Club Football, the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Dance Marathon, Relay for Life, Club ... (more)

Here are ten of the most significant studies on staving off Alzheimer's, with an expert verdict from the Alzheimer's Society's Jessica Smith That was the claim yesterday from scientists at Oxford University who suggested a daily dose of vitamin B could stave off the condition's devastating progression.

Progressive protests against a wave of conservative legislation in the North Carolina State House show little sign of weakening at the one month milestone.

A bill granting driving privileges to North Carolina residents who are living in the country illegally is headed to the state House floor.

Dozens of people who live off of Independence Boulevard came out Tuesday night to learn about plans to widen it.

The U.S. Senate this week has started to fine-tune the huge, new five-year farm bill, working through votes on a series of amendments that will include a proposal to eliminate federal subsidies for tobacco insurance.

North Carolina's Rowan-Salisbury School System has won the 2013 Sylvia Charp Award for District Innovation in Technology, presented by T.H.E. Journal and the International Society for Technology in Education .

With vexing problems facing our state leaders, here's a fix many kids - and adults - would deem a "no-brainer:" Legislators can make North Carolina's communities safer and save millions of dollars with a change to the way the we treat 16- and 17- years olds charged with misdemeanors.

That's where the "Extension Fairy" videos come in. Together, Morgan and Sanchez make videos on topics such as agri-tourism and trimming crepe myrtles a little more fun like making sure people don't commit "crepe murder". "Crepe murder is so sad.

So long as that energy is in the form of oil and gas, of course, existing energy companies can control prices by manipulating supply.

A conservative reading of Title IX has some schools ordering faculty and staff to report cases of sexual harassment even when the victim has pleaded for secrecy.

The search and rescue mission continues this evening after a massive tornado touched down Monday afternoon.

The North Carolina Press Association is claiming victory in a battle to maintain government notices in newspapers, but the war isn't yet over.

A former North Carolina lawmaker is set to face a jury over accusations he used a pair of government-funded non-profit corporations as personal piggy banks.

The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is spearheading a weekly series of protests at the state legislature called "Moral Mondays" directed against Republican-supported bills such as tax reform and voter ID.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Don Hall, right, of North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse hugs Linda Lou Wilson in the kitchen of her damaged home in the Rancho Brazos subdivision Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Granbury, Texas.

Sen. Phil Berger, left, listens to Sen. Bob Rucho, right, speak during a press conference with other Republican senators to discuss their ideas to put forth a new tax plan for North Carolina.

With two spots left vacant on the "X Factor" panel and season three about to go into production, the show just may have found the perfect two women to replace L.A. Reid and Britney Spears .

Think of George Packer's new book, "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America" as the un-Internet take on the transformation this country has undergone in the past 35 years.