North Carolina News

March 2010 The composite property and casualty rate was down 5 percent for February 2010.

A Texas company that makes machines to test the sobriety of convicted drunken drivers before they start their cars will get another chance to do business in North Carolina.

Monkeys are getting high for science in North Carolina. An analyst at the Civitas Institute seized on that image when selecting a cocaine addiction study at Wake Forest University Medical School as No.

Appointed government officials in North Carolina keep their authority to carry out their job until their successors take the oath of office, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, restoring a workers' compensation claim award approved by an outgoing state official.

North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt has endorsed attorney Ken Lewis in his bid for U.S. Senate.

Tulsa Police arrested 35-year-old Andrew Davis in Tulsa on a warrant from North Carolina after a hit in the national DNA database called CODIS, linked Davis to a rape in Asheville in September of 2001.

RALEIGH Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that the U.S. Census Bureau is now targeting 37,789 positions through September for temporary jobs in North Carolina.

A North Carolina judge has been reprimanded by judicial officials for his remarks about prosecutors in two cases where his wife represented the defendants.

Reporting from Moncure, N.C. - "Hey! Crop Mob! Over here!" Rob Jones, his boots smeared with mud, was trying to get the attention of a ragged group of young men and women dressed in jeans and work boots.

North Carolina's singing senator has recorded a song is critical of the marijuana and alcohol charges filed against members of singer-songwriter Willie Nelson's band in January.

Federal prosecutors say a former aide to ex-North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley should go on trial this spring because Ruffin Poole and his attorney have had enough time and help to prepare.

North Carolina officials have received applications from about 60 fishermen who want to plant oyster shells to enhance shellfish habitat.

The U.S. consul general for Saskatchewan, Alberta and the N.W.T. says she can feel the economic opportunity brewing here since being appointed to the position eight months ago.

The Federal Trade Commission and 35 state attorneys general, including North Carolina, have determined that a high-profile identity-theft protection company has not lived up to its pledges.

The eldest son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said in a North Carolina political appearance he doesn't expect his father to make a run for president in 2012.

Firefighters in North Carolina's largest city say they've controlled a fire at an apartment complex after rescuing at least six people.

SELMA A mother and her child have been found dead in an apartment fire in North Carolina.

RALEIGH Recovery from job losses caused by the Great Recession could stretch to five years or more in North Carolina, two to four times longer than after prior economic downturns.

An airport in Washington. A highway in Illinois. A 7-foot-tall statue in the Capitol Rotunda.

Gov. Beverly Perdue visited Franklin Graham's relief organization during a trip to the North Carolina mountains to see what Samaritan's Purse is doing around the world.