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The Federal Election Commission says former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign should repay the Treasury $2.3 million.

He was a little bit country; she was a little bit country. Scotty McCreery, the 17-year-old from Garner, N.C., won, but the real competition wasn’t between him and fellow Southerner Lauren Alaina, 16, of Rossville, Ga. All along, the contest was between “American Idol” past and “American Idol” present. It turned out that even after 10 seasons, with fewer frills and a different cast of judges, the ratings soared. “American Idol” is indestructible.

Evangelist Billy Graham was alert and resting comfortably Wednesday evening after being admitted to an Asheville, N.C. hospital for the treatment of pneumonia, doctors said....

After months of searches and appeals to the public, authorities confirmed Thursday that a body found in a northeast Maryland river was a North Carolina teen who went missing while visiting relatives in Baltimore over the Christmas holidays.

From remote rural communities to the state's second-largest city, thousands of residents hit by the worst tornado outbreak in nearly 30 years ...

Authorities say 10 people are confirmed dead after storms spawning tornadoes swept through a small eastern North Carolina county.

Authorities have charged the owner of a central North Carolina store after investigators say he kept a customer's winning lottery ticket worth nearly $90,000.

The daughter of Malcolm X was being held in a North Carolina jail and could be extradited to New York to face charges on several outstanding warrants, authorities said Monday.

The stepmother of a disabled North Carolina girl was indicted Monday on a murder charge in the girl's death....

A Democratic official says the party will hold it's 2012 presidential convention in Charlotte, N .C....