September 23, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A charter airline that once operated as Hooters Air has quit ferrying NBA stars and rockers as it struggles against lost contracts and a felony charge against its CEO for allegedly failing to make payments on his employees' group heal...
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September 21, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Federal energy regulators should deny Alcoa Inc.'s bid to keep operating a series of Yadkin River dams because the company's profit motive could conflict with managing droughts and attracting new jobs, Gov. Beverly Perdue's administra...
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August 27, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Officials with a rural North Carolina school district said a federal judge has agreed to close a four-decade-old desegregation case. Bertie County Schools Superintendent Chip Zullinger and attorney Carolyn Waller said Judge Te...
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August 24, 2009
TABOR CITY, N.C. (AP) — An attorney representing state Sen. R.C. Soles said his client acted in self-defense when he shot an intruder at his home. Attorney Joe Cheshire said Monday that Soles used a pistol to shoot the 22-year-old at his home and th...
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August 21, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Beverly Perdue is popping up in the e-mail accounts of thousands of teachers and state employees in a video asking for their help in a recession that has led to layoffs from government payrolls. "It's part of her effo...
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RALEIGH (AP) — Jobless workers in North Carolina gained no ground in July as they struggled against a statewide unemployment rate that stayed flat at 11 percent, the state's Employment Security Commission reported today. July's unemployment rate, un...
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August 18, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A man found innocent by reason of insanity of killing four people and wounding five others in a 1988 shooting spree must have a new hearing that could lead to his conditional release from a psychiatric hospital, a state appeals court...
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August 17, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man is recanting his allegation that a longtime state senator tried to fondle him more than a decade ago. Stacey Scott said Monday he was high on drugs when he made the claim in an interview with a Wilmington t...
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August 11, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The General Assembly closed Tuesday after more than six months of work dominated by the recession, a tight state budget and tax increases. Lawmakers spent most of their energy balancing service cuts against tax increases in one...
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August 5, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state Senate has approved a fix for an underfunded coastal insurance plan that regulators called a problem about to effect property coverage statewide. The Senate passed the proposal 42-5 on Wednesday, the same day senators...
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August 4, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — State lawmakers gave preliminary approval to a $19 billion budget Tuesday after legislative leaders and Gov. Beverly Perdue spent the day weighing whether it would cut spending enough, spread the pain fairly, and raise taxes no more t...
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July 22, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Days after a judge ruled his role as top administrator of North Carolina's public schools was unconstitutional, Gov. Beverly Perdue's choice to unify the state education bureaucracy said Wednesday he will step down from his newly crea...
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July 17, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina job-seekers got more bad news in June as the state's unemployment rate spent a fifth consecutive month hovering above the previous historic high of 26 years ago, the state's Employment Security Commission reported Frida...
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's elected public schools superintendent, not a CEO whose job was created at the governor's behest, has the constitutional powers to be the day-to-day administrator of the state's education bureaucracy, a Wake County jud...
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June 25, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers have started grappling with how the underfunded Beach Plan would keep its insurance promises after a bad hurricane season. The House Insurance Committee on Thursday began considering a proposal to cap insurers...
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June 17, 2009
RALEIGH — Hollywood is now on stage in the legislature's regular debates about whether targeted tax breaks pay off with more and better jobs. Lights. Make-up. Incentives? Legislators stung by the last-minute loss of a Miley Cyrus movie in April took...
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June 9, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms was one of the country's most polarizing political figures during 30 years in Congress as one of the most vocal leaders of the Republican Party's conservative Southern core. A resolution honoring Helms......
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May 28, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's top consumer advocate on utility issues said Thursday he no longer opposes an effort to end state regulation of the prices consumers pay for landline telephone service. Robert Gruber, executive director of the state U...
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May 26, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina House has tentatively approved changing the state's corporate tax laws to make them more attractive to billion-dollar investments. The House voted 81-31 Tuesday in favor of a bill changed last week to push companies...
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May 22, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's jobless rate for April was unchanged at 10.8 percent, marking a third straight month the rate was nearly flat and offering hope that the worst of the state's job losses may be over, the state Employment Security Commi...
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May 21, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina House member accused of drinking before speeding to work and then embracing a teenage female page says he'll leave the Republican Party after fellow legislators participated in a probe of his conduct. Republican Rep.
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May 13, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The state House decided Wednesday to free local telephone service providers from state regulation that for decades made sure the companies justified their prices, responded to consumer complaints and maintained service standards. The...
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May 7, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — An unnamed corporation is considering investing at least $1 billion in North Carolina, a prospect so large North Carolina lawmakers signaled Thursday they are willing to change the way corporate taxes are calculated to give the compan...
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May 6, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Hundreds of opponents of annexation converged on the Legislature to tell lawmakers they want changes in existing laws. Those opponents complained on Wednesday that residents who live outside of cities or towns get no vote on whether t...
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RALEIGH (AP) — The state's top liquor regulator resigned Tuesday after sending an e-mail that reportedly showed a watermelon patch outside an altered photo of the White House.Gov. Bev Perdue demanded and received the resignation of Alcoholic Beverag...
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