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Appeals court upholds key voting rights provision

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landmark civil rights law....

05/18/2012 3:31 PM

Senator wants parties to refund convention money

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Republican senator has asked both political parties to refund the millions of federal dollars each has received to help pay for this summer's presidential nominating conventions....

05/18/2012 2:49 PM
Florida A&M president says band will return

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Florida A&M's president says the hazing death of a marching band member is tragic, but promised an alumni group in North Carolina that the celebrated band would return. James Ammons said this week that he would keep

05/18/2012 2:45 PM
Democrats' group paying for anti-McCrory ad in NC

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The Democratic Governors Association is bankrolling a television ad in North Carolina markets critical of Republican gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory and his involvement in a Charlotte-based lending and real estate business....

05/18/2012 2:24 PM
Democrats' group paying for anti-McCrory ad in

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The Democratic Governors Association is bankrolling a television ad in North Carolina markets critical of Republican gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory and his involvement in a Charlotte-based lending and real estate business. The group called North Carolina Citizens

05/18/2012 2:24 PM
Jennifer Aniston to make movie in Wilmington

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) A company producing a new Jennifer Aniston movie has opened offices in Wilmington. The StarNews of Wilmington reports (http://bit.ly/JPI16B ) that EUE/Screen Gems Studios has opened the production office and that the film has been scouting locations

05/18/2012 2:10 PM
Kurt Busch thinks Newman feud is 'WWE-type' action

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Kurt Busch doesn't think he endangered anyone last weekend at Darlington Raceway, and he insists he accidentally ran into the back of Ryan Newman's car after the race....

05/18/2012 1:47 PM
SC GOP ready to work north of border this year

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The South Carolina Republican Party says it's ready to work north of the border to help deny President Barack Obama the 15 electoral votes in battleground North Carolina this fall....

05/18/2012 1:43 PM
SC GOP ready to work north of border this year

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The South Carolina Republican Party says it's ready to work north of the border to help deny President Barack Obama the 15 electoral votes in battleground North Carolina this fall. Chairman Chad Connelly said this week the

05/18/2012 1:43 PM
Minor leaguer home-run derby on USS Yorktown

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The South Atlantic League's Home Run Derby will begin in an unlikely spot - the flight deck of the USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor....

05/18/2012 1:15 PM
Former UNC president remains in critical condition

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) University of North Carolina President Emeritus William Friday remains in critical condition at UNC Hospitals, but his family says he's improved slightly after having a permanent pacemaker placed. In a statement Friday's family says the pacemaker

05/18/2012 12:06 PM
Jury Finds Man Guilty Of Transylvania Co. Teen's Death

21-year-old Scott Fisher was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 16-year-old Michael Scott Rogers.

05/18/2012 12:03 PM
Jennifer Aniston to make movie in Wilmington

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- A company producing a new Jennifer Anniston movie has opened offices in Wilmington....

05/18/2012 9:54 AM
Buncombe County Schools Consider Free Breakfasts

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Buncombe County schools are considering taking advantage of a federal program that would pay for a free breakfast for all students....

05/18/2012 7:56 AM
Worker at Wilkesboro doughnut shop has hepatitis A

WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Health officials say people who ate at a doughnut shop in Wilkesboro earlier this month may have been exposed to hepatitis A....

05/18/2012 6:41 AM
Buncombe County schools consider free breakfasts

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Buncombe County schools are considering taking advantage of a federal program that would pay for a free breakfast for all students. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports (http://avlne.ws/JlZE0M ) that the school board will discuss the idea at its

05/18/2012 6:15 AM
Feds: Gastonia pastor had sex with minors in Haiti

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A Gastonia pastor has been indicted after authorities say he had sex with two minors in Haiti while doing missionary work in the country....

05/18/2012 5:48 AM
Florida A&M president talks to alumni at luncheon

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The president of Florida A&M is speaking to an alumni group in Charlotte just days after the school said it would keep its celebrated band off the field in the 2012-13 academic school year because of a hazing death....

05/18/2012 4:01 AM
NC jobless rate still falling, but how fast?

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The monthly release of North Carolina unemployment data will show whether job prospects have improved every month this year, even though progress has been slow. The state Commerce Department on Friday releases North Carolina's unemployment rate for

05/18/2012 4:01 AM
Former Hospital Employee Gets 18 Months For Theft, Embezzlement

A former employee of a local hospital was sentenced in United States Federal Court after pleadign guilty to stealing property and embezzling money from the hospital.

05/17/2012 10:44 PM