N.C. is named a finalist in ‘Race to the Top’ MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education named 16 finalists Thursday in the first round of its “Race to the Top” competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform grants.
Miller begins run for Congress HENDERSONVILLE — Henderson County businessman Jeff Miller officially opened his Congressional campaign headquarters with a number of endorsements from current and former western North Carolina o...
‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot ends 30-year career CHARLOTTE (AP) — Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger has flown his final flight. The pilot who landed a US Airways plane safely on the Hudson River last January said Wednesday he is retiring af...
Accreditation agency challenges SBI reporting RALEIGH — The accreditation group that certifies North Carolina’s top law enforcement agency says the agency should have made it clear in crime lab reports from the early 1990s when tests of evi...
ABC board hires out study on privatization RALEIGH (AP) — The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission has hired an outside group to conduct a financial appraisal of North Carolina’s liquor system, Gov. Beverly Perdue said Monday in t...
Poll shows Burr has work to do RALEIGH (AP) — More North Carolina adults are forming a negative opinion about U.S. Sen. Richard Burr as the Republican lawmaker heads into his re-election bid, according to a poll released Frid...
Perdue wants small business help RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue wants the federal government to ease tight credit markets making it hard for small banks to lend money to growing businesses.
Judges free man who served 16 years for slaying RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina man who insisted he was innocent of murder through more than 16 years in prison was declared a free man Wednesday after a groundbreaking exoneration pressed by th...
N.C. officials drop plan to focus on recent history RALEIGH (AP) — After critics complained that the American Revolution, the Found-ing Fathers and the Civil War would get short shrift in the classroom, the state education agency is reworking a p...
Court hears life sentence arguments RALEIGH (AP) — Justices on North Carolina’s highest court spent Tuesday parsing words and grilling attorneys about a decades-old law that could free several violent convicts because it may have ...
Trial date is set for Easley aide RALEIGH (AP) — A federal judge set a tentative April start date Wednesday for the corruption trial of an ex-aide to former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley, saying prompt resolution was in the be...
Court now has alleged sex tape HILLSBOROUGH (AP) — A former aide to John Edwards turned over the now infamous sex tape to a judge Wednesday, then faced tough questions from attorneys for the ex-presidential candidate’s mistre...
Safety board will study plant blast RALEIGH (AP) — Federal officials are scheduled to vote Thursday evening on urgent safety recommendations in response to a deadly explosion at a Slim Jim snack factory in North Carolina last year.
Ex-governor did state business on private e-mail RALEIGH (AP) — Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley used a private e-mail account to conduct state government business, according to two of his former communications directors who testified in...
