North Carolina News

A North Carolina doctor could lose his medical license after a patient complained he made cutting criticisms, including telling her she was fat.

A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl facesnew charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday.

North Carolina and Microsoft are launching a public-private partnership to provide technology training to the state's residents at no cost, Gov.

For the second consecutive year, North Carolina earned an "F" on the March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card, but it showed improvement on criteria that can help give all babies a healthy start in life.

Best-selling mystery writer John Grisham will deliver the commencement address at the University of North Carolina spring graduation.

The Navy is conducting another bird study at a proposed North Carolina site for a practice landing field for jets fighters.

A search warrant says a man charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl picked her up in front of her home and drove her to the hotel where she was last seen alive.

The state of North Carolina has launched a new Web site to provide access to online courses from K-12 grades, community colleges and universities.

There's a message for doctors, hospitals and communities in new guidelines for treatment of coronary disease and heart attacks: Get organized.

Virginia and North Carolina health officials are advising against consuming walleye fish caught in Lake Gaston because of mercury contamination.

A CT scan -- a kind of super X-ray -- provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.

Jewels, art, cars and more than 150 bottles of fine wine will be auctioned off in North Carolina's capital city to help recoup nearly $70 million in losses for investors duped in an alleged Ponzi scheme.

Lawyers for a disgraced former North Carolina legislator have gone back to court seeking to overturn his conviction for obstruction of justice.

It never ceases to amaze me how some politicians do math. Given North Carolina's recent budget woes and massive federal budget deficits as far as the eye can see, it should be obvious that many lawmakers never learned how to subtract.

The Senate Democratic Caucus met Tuesday morning to name a new majority leader to replace retiring Senator Tony Rand.

The Botticelli had happily hung in the North Carolina Museum of Art for more than a quarter-century, moving only a few feet over the years.

You can call it the recession tree. South Carolina's Statehouse Christmas tree is shorter than usual and doesn't even reach above the roughly 25-foot Confederate soldiers' monument on the front lawn.

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue says the state's financial picture is improving but that unemployment may keep rising in the short term.

Songs and prayers were part of a North Carolina community's gathering to remember little Shaniya Davis, the 5-year-old girl whose body was found Monda ...

Court of Appeals Judge Sanford Steelman is seeking another eight-year term on North Carolina's second-highest court.