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Duke University trustees have approved a 3.8 increase in costs for undergraduates, bringing the total annual price of attending to $63,273 for 2015-16.Click to Continue »

The timing is coincidental, but organizers hope it's also serendipitous: An exhibit of photographs of abandoned houses in eastern North Carolina is opening at the state Museum of History as…Click to Continue »

Events marking 150 years since a string of significant Civil War battles are leaving southeast North Carolina businesses counting the influx of off-season cash.Click to Continue »

Although he's retired from catfish farming, James Harrison has landed another big one from the NC Education Lottery.Click to Continue »

A Fayetteville woman has been arrested after detectives say she allowed her family's dog to starve to death after failing to provide food and medication for more than a year.Click to Continue »

Two months into full Republican control of Congress, GOP leaders are struggling to demonstrate they really are in charge.Click to Continue »

Missouri’s auditor, who fatally shot himself in an apparent suicide, had vowed to take down the state’s most powerful politicians and donors, including his fellow Republicans, when he launched an…Click to Continue »

Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, just a day before a planned protest against the…Click to Continue »

In this tiny community, just a smattering of homes along two blacktop roads, residents can’t understand what made a man rip through homes of relatives and other neighbors on a…Click to Continue »

The underlying conservative philosophy remains unquestioned. “Conservatives want people to do more,” said Carter Wrenn, a Republican consultant based in Raleigh, N.C. “We believe individual responsibility is the key to…Click to Continue »