September 18, 2008
CHARLOTTE (AP) - Michelle Obama asked voters Thursday to make their choice on the issues, not because, "I like that guy" or, "she's cute."Might she be talking about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin?"I'm talking about me," she said with a...
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September 16, 2008
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday she is discouraged by the prospect that health care is falling on the nation's list of priorities and critiqued the plans of both leading presidential candidates.In her first public talk since her husba...
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September 15, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) - North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole said Monday she wants to use her seat on the Senate committee that oversees the nation's banking industry to examine the causes and implications of turmoil in U.S. financial markets. But her Democrati...
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September 5, 2008
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Tropical Storm Hanna picked up speed Friday as it cruised toward the Carolinas, promising to deliver gusty winds and heavy rain during a dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the weekend for millions of people. Not far...
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September 4, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Thursday he will not speak at any public engagements until after the November election, extending an exile that began last month after he admitted to an extramarital affair. "Nothin...
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September 3, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole, trying to defend herself from a bevy of Democratic ads attacking her effectiveness, is on the airwaves with a negative spot of her own that depicts her rival as little more than a yapping dog. In the first at...
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August 29, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - John Edwards will emerge from seclusion and speak next month at Hofstra University in New York, taking the stage exactly one month after admitting to an extramarital affair, the school said Friday. But his wife Elizabeth has canceled what w...
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August 19, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- Democrat Barack Obama says he will "need" a win in North Carolina in November. The Democratic presidential candidate told supporters in Raleigh on Tuesday night that they need to fight to make sure America gets back on track. The Illinois se...
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August 1, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- National Democratic campaign leaders launched an ad campaign targeting Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole on Friday, opening their wallets three months before the election in a bid to start moving the numbers before the presidential campaign arr...
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July 8, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney and a delegation of U.S. senators joined hundreds of other mourners who paid their respects Tuesday at the funeral of former Sen. Jesse Helms, a five-term Republican who died on the Fourth of July.
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July 7, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Mourners who visited the casket of former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Monday remembered the conservative champion as the last politician of his kind. Helms' closed casket lay in front of the pews of Hayes-Barton Baptist Church, where...
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July 1, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE (AP)- A pregnant soldier lay dead in the bathtub. Reportedly scrawled on the motel-room mirror in lipstick was a crosshair design - the same symbol contained in a letter that arrived at the local newspaper four days later. "The following is t...
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June 26, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- Federal agents raided Blackwater Worldwide this week as part of an investigation into whether the private security company sidestepped federal laws prohibiting the private purchase of automatic assault rifles, the company said Thursday. Blac...
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RALEIGH (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Dole said North Carolina should have the option of allowing oil exploration off the state's coast, backing away from her long-held support of a federal moratorium on Atlantic drilling. In a statement Wednesday to The As...
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June 13, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — A couple accused of tying their 13-year-old son to a tree for two nights to punish him for disobedience has been charged with murder in his death, authorities said Friday. Brice Brian McMillan, 41, of Macclesfield, told a deputy that...
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June 9, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- Senate candidate Kay Hagan is getting help from lawmakers who want her to join them on Capitol Hill. Two Democratic senators traveled to Raleigh for a fundraiser Monday: Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and Montana Sen. Jon Tester. McCaskill s...
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June 3, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- Two North Carolina superdelegates are backing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as party officials solidify support for the party's nominee. Statesville attorney David Parker said late Tuesday he expects the party to unify quick...
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DURHAM (AP) — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was recovering Tuesday at Duke University Medical Center, a day after undergoing risky surgery that experts said was designed to reduce his brain tumor and give chemotherapy and radiation treatments a chance to w...
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June 2, 2008
DURHAM (AP)- After investigating all his options with his trademark intensity, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent 3½ hours of risky and exquisitely delicate surgery Monday to cut out as much of his cancerous brain tumor as possible. "I feel like...
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May 8, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Rep. Brad Miller endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday, becoming the third North Carolina superdelegate to pledge support to the Illinois senator since his convincing win in the state's primary. Miller an...
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April 29, 2008
GREENSBORO (AP) - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal said Tuesday he is the only party hopeful capable of beating Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole, dismissing his chief rival Kay Hagan as just another political insider. Hagan, a state senator from Gr...
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April 23, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- The Republican Party in North Carolina said Wednesday it's launching a television ad calling Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama too extreme for the state, despite the objections of GOP presumptive nominee John McCain. In an e-mail...
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April 22, 2008
DURHAM (AP) — Chelsea Clinton suggested Tuesday that she doesn't believe voters should consider how her mother responded to Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky when making judgments about her character. Clinton has repeated...
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April 16, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to approve a widely used method of lethal injection may not be enough to bring an immediate end to North Carolina's unofficial moratorium on the death penalty. Issued Wednesday, the ruling from the nation's...
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RALEIGH (AP) Two superdelegates from North Carolina said Wednesday they will support Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Reps. Mel Watt and David Price endorsed the Illinois senator, giving Obama the support of six of North Carolina's 17 supe...
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