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The fundraising chief for the 2008 campaign of North Carolina's governor received probation and a fine after entering a felony plea for hiding at least $32,000 in donations to pad another campaign worker's salary.
North Carolina's governor on Wednesday halted a Republican effort to dismantle a law that gives death row inmates a new way to argue that racial bias influenced their sentences.
A federal judge blocked part of North Carolina's new abortion law Tuesday, ruling providers do not have to place an ultrasound image next to a pregnant woman so she can view it, nor do they have to describe the features and offer her the chance to listen to the heartbeat.
A federal judge blocked part of North Carolina's new abortion law Tuesday, ruling providers do not have to place an ultrasound image next to a pregnant woman so she can view it, nor do they have to describe its features and offer her the chance to listen to the heartbeat.
North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast without a gay marriage ban in its constitution. The idea has gone nowhere in the last decade because Democratic leaders quashed Republican efforts to debate amendment referenda.
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue on Monday vetoed a bill requiring women considering an abortion get an ultrasound and wait 24 hours after state-mandated counseling before they could undergo the procedure.
The North Carolina House has voted to cancel out Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue's historic veto of the two-year state budget.
North Carolina's present-day lawmakers are deciding whether to pass judgment on a decision by their Reconstruction-era predecessors 140 years ago to impeach and kick out a governor whose chief offense stemmed from stopping Ku Klux Klan violence during the turbulent years after the Civil War.
Red Hat Inc. has decided to keep its trademark fedora hanging in North Carolina, declining the overtures of other states Monday as it announced it will build its next corporate headquarters in the Raleigh area and create more than 500 new jobs over the next decade.
Two trial court rulings have left a ban on electronic and computer-based sweepstakes machines in North Carolina largely intact, meaning games that have the look and feel of video poker and other casino games will have to be unplugged by Wednesday.
Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley was convicted Tuesday of a low-level felony and agreed to pay a $1,000 fine for an improperly filed campaign finance report, the lone accusation to emerge after sweeping investigations into his personal and professional life.
A Republican North Carolina legislator who sent some of his colleagues an e-mail containing a gay slur is being called on to apologize for his remarks.
Since Quail Hollow Club returned to the PGA Tour in 2003, big-name golfers from Tiger Woods to Phil Mickelson have said the Charlotte course could be the site for a major championship.
Sen. R.C. Soles was known for getting things done for his rural district. In recent years, his legislative accomplishments have been overshadowed by a strange series of events that culminated with him shooting a former law client after another man with him tried to kick down the lawmaker's door.
The North Carolina Legislature voted Wednesday to attempt to make clear again that a 2006 ban on video poker also applies to computer-based sweepstakes games found at businesses inside strip malls and old storefronts statewide.
More teachers and university faculty would stay on the job this fall but some might face furloughs, and thousands of Medicaid patients may no longer get help at home with cooking and bathing in the North Carolina government budget heading for the first of two final votes Tuesday.
Elaine Marshall has won the Democratic nomination to challenge North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr in November.
A union-backed effort to create a new political party in North Carolina to challenge congressional Democrats who voted against the health care bill fizzled for this year because organizers didn't have enough signatures to qualify, a group spokesman said Tuesday.
Big telecoms in North Carolina keep fretting about towns like Wilson and Salisbury getting into the broadband business.
For the past decade, North Carolina Democrats in charge of state government have been successful persuading the public they're unlike fellow party colleagues who've ended up behind bars.
A former aide to former Gov. Mike Easley was indicted Thursday on more than 50 federal counts, including extortion, bribery and money laundering over accusations he benefited financially while helping expedite coastal developments.
North Carolina's purchasing and informational technology systems could be consolidated and streamlined so the state can serve citizens more efficiently while saving millions of dollars, a budget reform panel told Gov. Beverly Perdue on Thursday.
Crab cakes, creme brulee and Crown Royal combined with charges of cronyism are carrying the critics of North Carolina's nearly 75-year-old liquor sales system when a 75-page legislative report alone did not.
North Carolina's tax office has taken in much more money through a special collection effort than promised last summer, the state's top tax collector said, and surely will ease a revenue shortfall for the next six months.
The increase in the number of North Carolina homeowners on the verge of losing their homes by foreclosure more than doubled in 2009 compared to the year before, according to state court records.
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