Our nation lost a great hero and champion of working people. Crystal Lee Sutton was an inspiration to every worker who holds out hope and is prepared to fight for justice and respect at work.
AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
RALEIGH, N.C. — Lance Cpl. Patrick Malone was relaxing on his bunk at an Iraqi combat base when a direct superior interrupted his late-night mov...
Michael Likosky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The United Kingdom Information Commissioner recently named Balfour Beatty and LAZ Parking Company's parent, Vinci, as having funded a secret 15-year long blacklisting operation.
AP | KEVIN MAURER | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — Coastal residents looked ahead Friday to a late-summer weekend with fewer beach-loving tourists as Tropical Storm Danny k...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
The thing about beach books -- or even "beach books" -- isn't the total tonnage of the entire pile. It's the glow of the glorious possibilities.
Miami Herald | Mark Johnson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
State Sen. R.C. Soles apparently shot one of two would-be intruders at his home just outside Tabor City, N.C. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for ...
AP | CHRIS GILLETTE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Hurricane Bill slammed punishing waves into Bermuda's coastal seawalls as it spun Friday over the open Atlantic, spreading b...
John Milewski | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
As we enter the back-to-school phase of the calendar, I want to share some good news and offer some unsolicited advice to our nation's education top cop.
AP | ALYSIA PATTERSON | Posted 09.14.2009 | Home
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — They spent their nights jumping in and out of strange cars, trolling otherwise empty streets lined with decaying storefronts...
William Bradley | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The "Manchurian Candidate" fantasy is alive and well in Republican ranks. And is it a long-term problem that they are largely opposed to the first black president and first brown Supreme Court justice?...You bet.
Senate Guru | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
If Richard Burr agrees with the birthers, then he is a crackpot, too. If Richard Burr agrees with common sense, he risks alienating his birther base.
AP | ALYSIA PATTERSON | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
RALEIGH, N.C. — The ex-mistress of John Edwards spent much of Thursday in a federal courthouse in Raleigh where a grand jury was meeting, at a t...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
File this under "You can't make this stuff up": a 13-month old joke about health care resurfaced today when President Obama held a town hall meeting in Raleigh.
AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
BEAUFORT, N.C. — Having swapped his hip-holstered Blackberry for fishing pliers, the U.S. attorney for eastern North Carolina watches closely fr...
AP | MITCH WEISS | Posted 08.06.2009 | Home
GAFFNEY, S.C. — The serial killer who terrorized a South Carolina community by shooting five people to death before police killed him Monday was...
Mary Ann West | Posted 07.26.2009 | Style
With the 4-1-4 college calendar, most students envision an interim semester in Europe or other exotic locations. But in a free-falling economy, four arts students chose to chase the perfect BBQ.
Jim Rex | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
The No Child Left Behind Act allows each state to define for itself what "academically proficient" means, thus dramatic differences appear from one state to the next.
AP | ALYSIA PATTERSON | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home
GARNER, N.C. — Two workers died when an explosion tore through a Slim Jim meat products plant in North Carolina Tuesday, punching holes in the b...
The Hill | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
A federal grand jury brought indictments Friday against the maker of an obscure currency supported by some libertarians....
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 06.21.2009 | Style
Barbecue has evolved along disparate paths around the nation, led down these trails by the racial and ethnic immigrants who settled there. Indeed, barbecue sauce is a cultural phenomenon.
Al Norman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
This phony money-shuffling is part of Wal-Mart's "hidden tax" on the rest of us who pay our taxes without the counsel of corporate tax accountants.
Chris Kyle | Posted 06.10.2009 | Entertainment
My mom is an unusual sports fan. She doesn't use the word hate and she's never booed a single team or person in her life.
Michael F. Easley | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
We can't afford to see college as an option or a luxury for some; it has to be our goal for all.
David Kirby | Posted 06.03.2009 | Green
It now appears that six of the eight genetic components in the currently circulating virus are direct descendants of a swine flu virus that first emerged in North Carolina a decade ago.
Senate Guru | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
We worry that some Republicans are too influenced by greed or fear or hatred. However, some Republicans are just mind-numbingly stupid.
Bruce Raynor | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living