North Carolina

Kenneth Rose Sr.'s Body Found In North Carolina After Wild Jersey Storms Sank Boat In New Jersey

AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York


ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A body that washed ashore at a North Carolina wildlife refuge over the weekend has been identified as the owner of a comme...

Sarah Palin And Billy Graham Visit, Eat Dinner Together At Evangelist's Home

AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics


MONTREAT, N.C. — Sarah Palin on Sunday dined and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham, who has counseled presidents and other politicians for decad...

Larry Whitfield Found Guilty: Man Blamed For Scaring Grandmother To Death After Running From Bank Robbery

AP | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home


CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-...

Shaniya Davis Story: 5-Year-Old Abused By Mother, Found Dead In North Carolina

Posted 11.17.2009 | Home


Shaniya Davis was found dead in a rural part of central North Carolina on Monday. The discovery of the 5-year-old's body painfully ended a week's l...

Antoinette Davis, Shaniya Davis' Mother, To Be Charged For Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse

Posted 11.16.2009 | Home


Antoinette Davis, mother of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis found dead today near Sanford, North Carolina, will face charges. The USA Today details the in...

Shaniya Davis Dead: Body Found In North Carolina

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home


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Shaniya Davis Still Missing: 5-Year-Old Girl's Mother Antoinette Nicole Davis Accused Of Child Abuse Involving Prostitution

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home


FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl...

14 Best Cities For Jobs: The Milken Institute

Posted 11.13.2009 | Business


Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...

Help 'Lift Up' Ellie Potvin, Eight Year Old With Rare Cancer

HuffPost | Tam Vo | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact


Ellie Potvin was only six years old when she was diagnosed with stage 4 rhabdomyoarcoma, a rare childhood cancer, in July of 2008. Ellie's parents...

Hickory, N.C.: How One Town Has Been Ravaged By Globalization

Peter Whoriskey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business


HICKORY, N.C. -- The expansion of global trade may enrich the United States, as economists say, but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside ...

Deer Swims Laps In North Carolina Pool (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green


In Gastonia, North Carolina, a deer crashed through a ceiling into an indoor swimming pool. The deer circled the pool, and then jumped in. Once in t...

Rep. Foxx Cites Fake Quote, Claims Obama Campaigned on Making the Country Worse

Matt Finkelstein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics


Matt Finkelstein

During the health debate, Foxx quoted from an anti-Obama poem called "The Pied Piper" that doesn't appear to be real, which went viral in the right-wing blogosphere earlier this year.

PepsiCo's $1.26 BILLION Case: Two Men Claim Pepsi Stole Their Idea To Sell Bottled Water

Posted 10.29.2009 | Business


MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Two men who claim PepsiCo stole their idea to sell bottled water sued the snack and drink maker in Wisconsin and won a $1.26 billion...

Strange Sleepers: Artist Puts Mannequins In Compromising Positions (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy


Artist Mark Jenkins did an installation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina of mannequins in odd positions. Some were sleeping (see below), some were div...

Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Linda Milazzo

Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

Book Burning: North Carolina Church To Destroy "Satan's Books"

Raw Story | Kathleen Miller | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books


A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James ve...

Hate the Husband? Sue the Mistress!

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Jacob M. Appel

An unlikely alliance of trial lawyers and Christian fundamentalists continues to defend the prerogative of jilted spouse to turn love triangles into quadrangles--with the state judicial system as a fourth wheel.

Ken Lewis Retiring: Bank Of America CEO To Step Down By End Of 2009

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company, succumbing to nearly a year of strife that followed hi...

When Your Dorm Goes Green And Local

nytimes.com | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green


Thoreau said education often made straight-cut ditches out of meandering brooks. But not at the EcoDorm, which houses 36 undergraduates and is the spi...

The Real Reason They Want ACORN to Fail

Will Bunch | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics


Will Bunch

The reality -- that ACORN is an established group with worthy goals and some success but also poor management -- is not what's driving the story. Conservatives want to destroy ACORN and the things it does. Period.

Atlanta Flooding: 3 Killed, 5 Missing As Storms Drench Southeast

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home


ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...

Raymond Cook: Doctor Kills Ballerina Elena Shapiro In DUI Crash: Police (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home


Elena Bright Shapiro was a 20-year-old ballerina with a promising career ahead of her. She died Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, when the car she was driving w...

Crystal Lee Sutton, the Real "Norma Rae," Was a Fighter to the End

Bruce Raynor | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living


Bruce Raynor

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.

Marines Take Risks With Deadly Trust-Building Game

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...

No Blacklisters Please: Decency in P3 Contracting

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Michael Likosky

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.