April 21, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- After weeks of posturing over debates in their high-profile race, the two leading Democratic candidates for governor agreed to another television debate Monday, giving themselves just a day to prepare. Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue and State Treas...
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April 15, 2008
RALEIGH(AP)- Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory took the brunt of criticism at a televised debate Tuesday night between him and other Republican candidates for governor who questioned his fiscal and immigration record while leading North Carolina's largest city.
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April 10, 2008
PINEHURST(AP)- The four leading Republican candidates for governor said Thursday they are committed to quickly cutting state spending, but differed on the best approach to cutting taxes. In a fast-moving debate that will be broadcast statewide before the...
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RALEIGH (AP) - Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue said Thursday she'll no longer use what she calls negative ads in her bid to become governor, a risky move that leaves her with fewer options on the airwaves in the waning weeks of the election. Perdue said that as o...
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April 7, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Former Rep. Thomas Wright was sentenced Monday to roughly six years to eight years in prison after a jury found him guilty of mishandling thousands of dollars in charitable contributions and fraudulently obtaining a $150,000 loan. Dep...
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March 31, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Gov. Mike Easley and members of his staff — caught in an embarrassing dispute about the handling of e-mail — are failing to meet the standards of North Carolina's public records law, some candidates for governor said Monday. &qu...
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March 27, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - No matter what policies are in place, state employees ultimately must decide which of their e-mails should be retained as public records, members of a state panel said Thursday at its first meeting. "They are the best ones to determine that...
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March 20, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — The state House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to remove Rep. Thomas Wright from office, the first such expulsion of a lawmaker from North Carolina's General Assembly in 128 years. The House voted 109-5 in favor of booting the Wilmingt...
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March 18, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) -- The state Legislature used a correct procedure in 2005 when it approved a bill that created North Carolina's lottery, according to a divided ruling by the state Court of Appeals that keeps the issue alive. Two of the panel's three judges r...
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February 22, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Barack Obama leads presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton among North Carolina residents likely to support a Democratic candidate for president, according to a poll released Friday that reflects Obama's national campaign surge. The...
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February 12, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) -- A high-ranking administrator at North Carolina Central University stole thousands of dollars in federal research grant money, possibly to pay off personal items bought with his university credit card, according to a state audit released Tu...
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January 31, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — The campaigns of State Treasurer Richard Moore and Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue used state government resources inappropriately in their competing bids for governor, according to reports released Thursday by the State Auditor's Office. Moo...
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January 22, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) -- Navy officials said Tuesday they will not build a practice jet landing field near a wildlife reserve in eastern North Carolina, a site widely opposed by local residents, environmentalists and state officials. The site, which straddles Beau...
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January 4, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Rep. Thomas Wright pleaded not guilty Friday to six felony charges that accuse him of illegally obtaining or misusing more than $350,000 in campaign donations, loans and charitable money. Wright's attorney, Douglas Harris, blamed many...
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December 14, 2007
RALEIGH (AP) A Superior Court judge said Thursday the state should give most of the civil penalties collected over almost 10 years to the public schools to comply with a state Supreme Court decision, requiring a payout exceeding $600 million. Judge Howar...
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December 12, 2007
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Mike Easley said Wednesday he could cap water use in some towns and cities if North Carolina's drought worsens but said he doesn't believe he'll have to go that far as long as conservation and cooperation continues. In a ye...
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December 6, 2007
RALEIGH (AP) — The State Board of Community Colleges elected Scott Ralls as the new system president on Thursday in a vote that drew an unusual amount of attention following the system's decision to admit illegal immigrants at all of its campuses. R...
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December 4, 2007
RALEIGH (AP) — The president of the state community college system won't back down from a new policy that allows illegal immigrants to enroll on all campuses, saying that doing otherwise runs counter to a nearly 50-year-old tradition of open admissi...
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November 9, 2007
RALEIGH (AP) The state Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction of novelist Michael Peterson on Friday, ruling that keeping out evidence improperly obtained from his computer wouldn't have changed the outcome of his trial. Peterson is serving a life se...
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November 6, 2007
GREENSBORO (AP) The Democratic candidates for governor debated for the first time Tuesday, trading charges on their education platforms and legislative records but generally pointing toward similar goals as North Carolina's next chief executive. Lt. Gov.
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October 30, 2007
RALEIGH (AP) — State Sen. Kay Hagan said Tuesday she will join the race to challenge U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole next year, three weeks after saying she wouldn't run and a week after the only other Democrat in the race said he is gay."I've had a c...
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October 29, 2007
RALEIGH (AP) — The chairman of a blue-ribbon committee that will examine North Carolina's transportation funding shortfall said Monday he's going into his job with no preconceived notions about whether higher taxes are part of the solution. Three to...
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October 8, 2007
For decades, the legal challenges over when and how to distribute money from civil and criminal penalties to North Carolina's public schools generally have traveled down a winding highway of arcane constitutional law. The legal opinions, however, literall...
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September 25, 2007
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's fourth- and eighth-graders are generally keeping pace with other U.S. public school students with slightly improved results in math and reading, according to national test results released Tuesday. A larger percentage...
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September 10, 2007
RALEIGH (AP) — State lawmakers returned to Raleigh on Monday to decide whether to hand Gov. Mike Easley a historic defeat and veto a $40 million economic incentives bill aimed at helping the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s plant in Fayetteville.
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