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A judge rejected NC lawmakers' request to dismiss a challenge to the Voter ID law. The League of Women Voters of North Carolina and others contend the requirement violates the…Click to Continue »

A groundbreaking ceremony was scheduled Friday to mark the start of construction of a monument at Camp Lejeune that will honor the Montford Point Marines, the first black Marines to…Click to Continue »

Even though students missed four days of classes this week, Wake County doesn’t have to make up Tuesday because school buses were en route to class. With Wake only needing…Click to Continue »

Air Canada flight 7316 traveling from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to Toronto made an emergency landing in Pennsylvania after a man aboard saw smoke, ABC11 Eyewitness News reports.Click to Continue »

Congress closed in Friday on approving a short-term spending bill for the Homeland Security Department that would avert a partial agency shutdown hours before it was to begin.Click to Continue »

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie…Click to Continue »

Blue Cross and Blue Shield, North Carolina's largest health insurer, said Friday it posted its first financial loss in nearly two decades as a result of insuring older and sicker…Click to Continue »

The UNC Board of Governors voted Friday to close three university-based centers as part of a sweeping review of institutes across the state.Click to Continue »

A gunman killed seven people and wounded an eighth person in an overnight house-to-house rampage in a small Missouri town before apparently committing suicide in a vehicle, authorities said Friday.Click to Continue »

The UNC Board of Governors approved tuition and fee increases Friday that will average 4.3 percent for in-state undergraduates across the university system’s campuses. That brings the average cost to…Click to Continue »