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An audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services says it has failed to fully test a new $484 million computer system scheduled to begin processing Medicaid claims on July 1. The report issued by the office of State Auditor Beth Wood raises serious questions about the process used to affirm the complex NCTracks software will be ... (more)

From left, Renee Farrow and her sister, LaReesa Farrow, look for jobs Wednesday at the Employment Security Commission.

Melissa Huggins-Jones was killed May 14th in her North Carolina apartment. The mother of two had just moved there from Cleveland to take a new job two weeks before her death.

It was a year ago Wednesday that Tropical Storm Alberto was spinning just a few hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina.

A North Carolina House panel recommended a bill Wednesday that buys time for the city of Raleigh to renegotiate a lease for the 325-acre Dorothea Dix property with the state.

The deaths of three of the Americans - Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Awlaki, and Samir Khan, all of whom were killed in drone strikes in Yemen in 2011 - had been previously reported.

The Obama administration confirmed Wednesday that a Raleigh man wanted on federal terrorism charges was killed in an overseas drone strike.

This drawing from the Library of Congress helps illustrate the harsh conditions that affected health, troop movement and even battle outcomes during the Civil War.

The Avett Brothers' Bob Crawford performs at MerleFest 2013. MerleFest and The Mast Farm Inn in Valle Crucis will host the N.C. Bluegrass Pavilion at the 2013 IBMA World of Bluegrass, offering a variety of workshops, videos and music with a focus on North Carolina-based musicians and events.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development awarded $806,566 in a second round of grants to support 16 local homeless housing and service programs in North Carolina.

North Carolina Senate leaders on Sunday released a $20.6 billion state budget proposal for the 2013-14 fiscal year as part of a biennium budget plan.

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.