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By MIKE BAKER

December 20, 2007

Easley: step-up water conservation efforts

RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Mike Easley urged local governments Thursday to charge hefty prices to residents who use more water than necessary as state leaders look at ways to curtail a worsening drought. The plan would keep prices low for necessary water u... Read More

December 18, 2007

3 more Duke lacrosse players file suit

RALEIGH (AP) — Three current and former Duke lacrosse players who were not indicted in the discredited rape case have filed a lawsuit against the university, disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong and dozens of others for inflicting emotional distress. Read More

December 17, 2007

Drought cuts $573 million from agriculture economy

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's crop economy will lose more than half a billion dollars in 2007 because of a drought labeled the worst in the state's recorded history, according to a state report released Monday. The preliminary estimates prepared f... Read More

December 13, 2007

Former sheriff, deputies charged in video poker case

RALEIGH (AP) Former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford and three former deputies have been charged for accepting money to protect an illegal video poker ring in western North Carolina, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. The federal indictme... Read More

December 5, 2007

DOJ will not investigate Nifong

RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice will not investigate former Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong for his handling of the case, a spokesman for the agency said Wednesday. That decision also jeopardizes a possible investigation at the st... Read More

December 3, 2007

Giuliani appears in Greensboro

GREENSBORO (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani criticized the "fair tax" proposal of rival candidate Mike Huckabee on Monday, saying it could hurt home buyers. The former New York City mayor cited the struggling U.S. housi... Read More

November 19, 2007

New school bus safety rules proposed

MORRISVILLE (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters proposed new rules Monday to improve the safety of school bus seats and expand the use of shoulder belts but declined to mandate that all new buses adopt the restraining devices. Read More

October 24, 2007

Expert: 'Superbug' not a special threat to N.C.

RALEIGH (AP) MRSA, the latest "superbug" to ignite public fear, doesn't pose any special threat to North Carolina, according to State Health Director Leah Devlin, who pointed out that flu kills twice as many people nationwide each year. Methicillin-resis... Read More

September 12, 2007

Anti-drinking campaign targets middle schoolers

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina schools will target students as young as 10 with an aggressive anti-drinking campaign that teaches them to understand how advertising drives their decision-making. The 10-lesson project was launched Wednesday by Mary Ea... Read More

September 10, 2007

Gabrielle weakens to depression

NAGS HEAD (AP) — Gabrielle, struggling to stay organized as it pulled away from the North Carolina coast, weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression early Monday, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm lost many of its rainmaking... Read More

August 30, 2007

Billy Graham returns home from hospital stay

RALEIGH (AP) — Evangelist Billy Graham was released from a western North Carolina hospital Thursday, nearly two weeks after he was admitted for intestinal bleeding, officials said. Doctors identified the source of Graham's bleeding during a colonosc... Read More