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As a preservationist and historian, Janie Fetner Gosney would have been impressed with the discovery Meredith Hefner made last week – Gosney’s wallet from the 1980s.Click to Continue »

NC Gov. Pat McCrory doesn’t have the legal authority to control the majority of appointments to commissions that the General Assembly creates, attorneys for legislative leaders argue in a court…Click to Continue »

Isaiah Austin, a former college basketball player and top pick in the 2014 NBA draft, talked to students at Saint Raphael’s Catholic School in Raleigh on Monday about how he…Click to Continue »

A contract with virtual public charter schools under consideration by the State Board of Education would have one of the online charter applicants reconfiguring its budget. A State Board committee…Click to Continue »

Paul Shumaker, a Burr adviser who worked on his House and Senate races, will serve as general counsel. Republican pollster Glen Bolger will do polling, as he did in Burr’s…Click to Continue »

County-level political parties will select two new state legislators this week after a Republican House member and Democratic Senator resigned to take new jobs.Click to Continue »

U.S. Rep. David Rouzer opened a district office in the Johnston County Agriculture Center in Smithfield on Monday.Click to Continue »

Republican U.S. Rep. Walter Jones has told the group NC Stop Torture Now that he thinks there are "many crimes worthy of prosecution" detailed in the Senate report on the…Click to Continue »

As parts of New England prepare for up to three feet of snow to fall this week, meteorologists are performing complicated math to figure out the amount of snow that…Click to Continue »

The Corolla Wild Horse Fund has added a 4-year-old stallion from another herd in hopes of diversifying the herd and ending an increased number of birth defects.Click to Continue »