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A bill introduced Wednesday would allow North Carolina's State Board of Education to give waivers from the state's calendar law for specific educational programs. Tourism officials have said they will…Click to Continue »

North Carolina's state auditor says a failed Kinston charter school got nearly $700,000 in taxpayer funds in 2013 despite years of financial mismanagement and inflated expected student enrollment to get…Click to Continue »

The State Highway Patrol thinks it may have identified a man who was struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle last month near Wake Forest.Click to Continue »

Police in Fayetteville early Wednesday arrested 17-year-old Cortaz Lucas Jr., whom Clayton police had charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 28 fatal shooting of his mother's boyfriend, officials announced.Click to Continue »

Senior housing is not a common place for arrests, but Zebulon police searched a 76-year-old man's apartment Tuesday and charged him with cocaine possession with intend to sell and deliver.Click to Continue »

Officially “announced” or not, Attorney General Roy Cooper’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2016 is visibly underway.Click to Continue »

As expected, Senate leader Phil Berger, an Eden Republican, has filed a bill that follows last year’s sharp exchanges over magistrates refusing to perform same-sex weddings.Click to Continue »

Capt. Mike Wilson, now a student resource officer in Apex, dove into a frigid creek to save a driver Saturday afternoon.Click to Continue »

The NAACP launches a new round of protests as legislators begin a new session…Click to Continue »

A record 15.6 million people attended state parks and recreation areas last year, 10 percent more than in 2013, the state announced Wednesday.Click to Continue »