By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., March 2 (Reuters) – North Carolina prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man who police say kept detailed notes on parking at his…
University of North Carolina students and faculty raucously protested the board of governors’ vote Friday to disband a poverty-focused think-tank led by a critic of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and…
Last year we featured the stories of Drew Davis and Juan Varona, two gay Erskine College volleyball players who had found acceptance from their teammates in the small school in…
From the Deep South to the Mid-Atlantic, another winter storm was expected to bring more snow and ice Wednesday to many areas that were hit hard just last week. Part…
www.tmz.com: “Teen Mom” star Jenelle Evans spent an hour of her Tuesday behind bars in South Carolina … busted for driving without a license.
National Republicansintent on fashioning an orderly nominating process after several chaotic cyclesare threatening trigger-happy primary and caucus states with drastic penalties if they attempt to leapfrog the voting line and…
WASHINGTON — Cherokee County Commissioner Dr. Daniel Eichenbaum and Edward Figueroa, a former police officer, used to be friendly. They were both members of a group preparing for an apocalypse-type…
Hollywood’s movers and shakers weren’t the only ones putting on fancy gowns and tuxes this Oscars weekend. Our readers who tied the knot stunned in some red carpet-worthy big day…
After the shooting of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a message of compassion rose up from many corners of the Muslim community. Farris Barakat, the brother of…
A grand jury on Monday indicted the North Carolina man who allegedly shot and killed three Muslim students, according to WRAL and ABC 11. – Barakat, a dental student at…
President Barack Obama released a statement Friday on the shooting of three members of a Muslim family in North Carolina. – For more on the Chapel Hill shooting, go here.
Students and officials from the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University and Duke University came together Wednesday — setting aside some of the most intense college rivalries —…
Three Muslim students were shot and killed near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Wednesday. While the shooter’s motives are still unclear, HuffPost Live spoke with…
RALEIGH, North Carolina — The father of two Muslim sisters killed in a triple murder by an atheist with an intense dislike of all religion told a massive crowd gathered…
READ: Bush-linked company blocked government contract for blind, disabled – A week before he heads to New Hampshire, Bush makes his first stop in Iowa, the state that traditionally goes…
The event recognized Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the first black senator elected from the South since Reconstruction (in 2014 he was elected to the same seat he was…
WASHINGTON — Art Pope, the wealthy owner of a chain of dollar stores, became a pioneer in the use of big money to seize power at the state level in…
Donations are pouring in to honor three Muslim students who were the victims of a shooting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, 23,…
Police say three people have been shot to death at a condominium complex east of the University of North Carolina campus and a man has been arrested. – Police said…
President Barack Obama released a statement on Sunday commemorating the life of Dean Smith, the fabled basketball coach at the University of North Carolina who passed away Saturday evening at…
Dean Smith, the Hall of Fame innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina along with an Olympic gold medal while coaching some of the game’s biggest names like…
Dean Smith, who built the University of North Carolina basketball team into a perennial national power in his 36 years at Chapel Hill and became one of the game’s most…
WASHINGTON — One of the newest members of the U.S. Senate suggested Wednesday that he did not think the Department of Justice’s decision to sue him was a wise use…
Jan 28 (Reuters) – A South Carolina judge on Wednesday vacated the 54-year-old trespassing convictions of a group of black civil rights protesters credited with reinvigorating the 1960s U.S. sit-in…
WASHINGTON — A group of Senate Democrats from the Northeast is pushing back on the Obama administration’s proposal to open new areas of the Atlantic Ocean to oil and gas…
The men, dubbed the Friendship Nine after the Rock Hill, South Carolina, college that eight of them attended, were looking to make a statement about the plight of the segregated…
Ashley Christensen, of Poole’s Downtown Diner in Raleigh, at her latest venture, Joule Coffee & Table.” CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Back in the 1970s, when Nathalie Dupree and Shirley Corriher…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration released a draft of a five-year plan for oil and gas lease sales on Tuesday that would open areas of the Atlantic Ocean and offshore…
In a decision likely to significantly affect the long-running dispute over James Brown’s estate, a judge in South Carolina has ruled that Tommie Rae Hynie Brown is the widow of…
In an emotional message, longtime Raleigh, North Carolina news anchor Larry Stogner announced Friday he has been diagnosed with ALS and will be stepping down from his desk at local…