November 15, 2008
KENLY (AP) - A cluster of strong thunderstorms swept across central North Carolina early Saturday and spawned tornadoes, killing two people. A child was also missing. A woman was found dead in her wrecked home and her son was missing in the community of K...
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November 13, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Despite his successful effort to register tens of thousands of voters this summer, President-elect Obama might not have won North Carolina without the state's new law allowing same-day registration and voting before Election Day. Obama to...
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November 11, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Senator-elect Kay Hagan said Tuesday she's looking at the possibility of replacing departing Sen. Elizabeth Dole on the committees that oversee the military and banking. If she's assigned to either committee, the freshman senator could pl...
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November 7, 2008
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Billy Graham's work as a pastor to presidents is coming to an end, but he is praying for Barack Obama as the nation's next leader begins his work, Graham's son said Friday on the ailing evangelist's 90th birthday. Franklin Graham said i...
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November 6, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole's 40-year tenure in the nation's capital took her from the inner circles of presidents to leading the American Red Cross. Now ousted from Congress, she's been left to plot the next chapter in one of Washington...
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November 5, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Don't call North Carolina a red state anymore. Whether this year's election marked a permanent or temporary turning point toward the Democrats, the results indicate just how much North Carolina has changed in the six years since arch conser...
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RALEIGH (AP) - Don't call North Carolina a red state anymore. Whether this year's election marked a permanent or temporary turning point toward the Democrats, the results indicate just how much North Carolina has changed in the six years since arch conser...
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November 4, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Up before dawn to wait in the rain, hundreds of thousands of North Carolina voters headed out Tuesday to cast ballots in what was sure to be a historic Election Day even before the polls opened. There were lines, to be sure, especially in t...
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November 3, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Outside groups have spent more than $22 million dollars to influence North Carolina's U.S. Senate election, with much of money aimed at unseating first-term Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole. Dole is one of the GOP's marquee names. But De...
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October 31, 2008
DURHAM (AP) - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan refocused her campaign Friday on policy issues, declining to answer questions about a fundraiser she attended and dismissing ads about her Christian credentials as a distraction from the race. Hagan...
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RALEIGH (AP) - North Carolina residents believe Democrats will do a better job handling most major issues facing the country - from the economy to energy to education - and overwhelmingly say the nation is off track, according to an Elon University poll r...
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October 30, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan filed a lawsuit Thursday against rival Elizabeth Dole, accusing the Republican incumbent of defamation and libel for running a television ad that questions Hagan's ties to an atheist political grou...
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October 29, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Dole is airing a new ad that questions her rival's ties to an atheist political group as a new poll released Wednesday shows the Republican incumbent slightly behind in her first bid for re-election. Dole's ad questions why...
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October 28, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Kay Hagan launched her campaign for U.S. Senate a year ago by quickly taking aim at her Republican rival, promising voters a new approach to the nation's problems. "I hope you'll join me in bringing that fresh voice to Washington," she said...
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October 27, 2008
GREENSBORO (AP) - Federal prosecutors have indicted one of the two men accused in the slaying of the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A federal grand jury returned an indictment Monday against 22-year-old Demario...
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ASHEVILLE (AP) — More than 1 million people have now cast a ballot in North Carolina's early voting, surpassing the total number who voted early four years ago. Data released Sunday by the State Board of Elections shows 1,078,710 have voted at early sit...
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October 23, 2008
CHARLOTTE (AP) - Blacks are already surging to the polls in parts of the South, according to initial figures from states that encourage early voting - a striking though still preliminary sign of how strongly they will turn out nationwide for Barack Obama...
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October 21, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - North Carolina's Republican Party is circulating a mailer highlighting Barack Obama's ties to 1960s radical William Ayers, trying to stir uncertainty about the Democratic presidential nominee's background as the stakes increase in this surp...
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RALEIGH (AP) - Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole has committed $3 million of her own money to buoy her re-election bid, digging deep into her pockets in the final weeks of the campaign as she struggles to shake off a barrage of criticism from Democrats. Not...
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October 17, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — More than 100,000 voters in North Carolina cast a ballot on the first day of early voting in an unprecedented rush to the polls amid a historic presidential election, according to elections data released Friday. Data from the State Board...
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RALEIGH (AP) - More than 100,000 voters in North Carolina cast a ballot on the first day of early voting in an unprecedented rush to the polls amid a historic presidential election, according to elections data released Friday. State Board of Elections num...
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October 9, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - North Carolina added more than 600,000 newly registered voters to its rolls in the first nine months of the year, swamping election officials who are scrambling to process the paperwork of those eager to cast a ballot. The state's Friday vo...
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October 1, 2008
CARRBORO(AP) - Elizabeth Edwards said Wednesday her health is "no worse" than 18 months ago, when she and her husband made the sobering announcement that her cancer had returned in an incurable form. The wife of two-time Democratic presidential candidate...
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RALEIGH (AP) - Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole said Wednesday she will vote against a revised $700 bailout of the nation's financial industry, while her Democratic challenger declined to take sides as the Senate prepared to vote on the historic measure. Do...
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September 30, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Elizabeth Edwards tied the nation's lagging economy to its struggling health care system Tuesday as she joined an effort in battleground states to discredit the health care proposals of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.The wi...
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