North Carolina News

A federal stimulus program called "Race to the Top" could mean hundreds of millions of dollars for North Carolina's cash-strapped public schools.

Shakara Campbell makes another 'reload' of the hot dog bin during lunch hour at Jones Lunch.

People who want the death penalty abolished in North Carolina are wrapping up a 300-mile pilgrimage by lobbying the Legislature.

Story from the Huffington Post here : One of the Democratic senators who was on the fence when it came to backing a public option for health insurance coverage is coming out in support of the measure.

The Lumbee Indian tribe wants to change the name of the river that winds through its ancestral lands in North Carolina.

The first Mobile Evacuation Bus in Southeastern North Carolina was delivered to Brunswick County Emergency Services Friday.

With members of Congress back home this week for the July Fourth recess, left-leaning religious groups today announced a series of radio ads promoting the moral argument for a healthcare overhaul.

A vice chancellor from the State University of New York system has been named the top academic administrator at Georgia State University.

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian is well on its way to raising enough money for an expansion in the North Carolina mountains.

Officials are considering plans to close schools at North Carolina's three psychiatric hospitals and shift the responsibility of educating young patients through local school districts.

Megan Fox, Bar Refaeli and Adriana Lima were voted in the Top 10 of Maxim's 2009 Hot 100 list , and many guys would probably agree that's where they belong.

Reforms in the Beach Plan, designed to make the insurance program the policy of last resort rather than the first place coastal property owners seek out, cleared the House Insurance Committee on Tuesday.

COLUMBIA a ' Michael Dean Perry knows the day is coming when his good-natured, gap-toothed older brother nicknamed "The Fridge" will be back to his old, affable self.

Police officials in North Carolina say an officer is in stable condition after being shot during a call to a burglary in progress in Durham.

The military says four North Carolina National Guard soldiers have been killed in Iraq.

An international scam targeting U.S. state governments managed to rake in more than $3 million, including nearly $1 million from West Virginia, before it was caught, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Complaints about North Carolina laws that allow cities and towns to annex nearby property owners against their will are getting a further airing in the General Assembly.

A multi-national group of investigators, including a scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has discovered that nearly a third of the genetic basis of schizophrenia may be attributed to the cumulative actions of thousands of common genetic variants.

States from coast to coast began a new fiscal year Wednesday with no budget plans and with cash quickly running out, sending some to the brink of shutdown and forcing others to furlough workers and cut services.In California, Gov.

An ex-aide to John Edwards who claimed he fathered a child born to the mistress of the two-time Democratic presidential candidate spent Wednesday in a federal courthouse, but declined to talk with a reporter about an investigation into his former boss.