February 13, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — A Charlotte man stuck with a $14,000 hospital bill he calls inflated and unreasonable wants North Carolina's Supreme Court to rule that courts are open to decide fairness.
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February 2, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — A pioneering summer program for gifted high school students will live on for a 50th year after alumni and other donors stepped in with cash in the months since state lawmakers eliminated funding.
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January 25, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — The Venus flytrap's struggle for survival in the wild along coast of the Carolinas faces an added threat from poachers looking to make a buck by uprooting and selling them.
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January 24, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — The state's unemployment rate dropped a fraction in December to 9.9 percent, sliding just out of the double-digit range for the first time since June, the state Commerce Department said todayIt was the third straight month that the st...
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January 12, 2012
CLEVELAND (AP) — About 1,100 workers laid off from a factory that builds long-distance Freightliner trucks will be called back to work to meet increasing demand as economies in the U.S. and elsewhere improve, Daimler Trucks North America said today.
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January 10, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — Progress Energy and Duke Energy have agreed that July will be the new deadline for completing their merger to create the country's largest electric utility.
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December 28, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Thousands of misdemeanor offenders will serve their time in local jails instead of a state prison under a change in state law taking effect next week. The change also allows county sheriffs to claim revenue for their lockups by fillin...
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December 20, 2011
NEW BERN (AP) — Two brothers who watched as their father transformed their rural North Carolina family home into a base camp to launch violent jihad will spend years in prison, even after cooperating with federal prosecutors.
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December 16, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — A steel company tied to Alcoa Inc. said Friday it's giving up on the aluminum giant's North Carolina former smelter plant as a site for a pair of factories promising hundreds of jobs, and will look to other states for politicians eage...
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December 6, 2011
HILLSBOROUGH (AP) — Opening statements will wait one more day in the trial of the Durham man accused of killing UNC student body president Eve Carson. Jury selection continued Tuesday afternoon in the case of Laurence Lovette Jr. Lawyers for both si...
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December 5, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — A Duke University graduate and investment manager, along with his wife, is giving $50 million to his alma mater to help undergraduates attend the elite school in North Carolina, campus officials announced Monday.
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November 30, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — The academic year for North Carolina's public school students is set to get five days longer next year.Members of the state Board of Education said Wednesday a new state law taking away teacher training time and replacing it with five...
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November 29, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — A state economic development panel has approved an incentives deal worth more than $22 million to bring the global headquarters of banana giant Chiquita Brands International from Cincinnati to Charlotte.
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November 28, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina utilities regulators planned to open hearings today on whether Duke Energy should be allowed to raise electricity rates by 7.2 percent on all 1.8 million of its customers in the state.
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November 10, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Intense national political forces were focused on a local school board runoff this week in North Carolina's capital as voters replaced tea party conservatives in a race that capped an acrimonious dispute over student busing and divers...
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November 7, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina residents are evenly divided in how they feel about the anti-Wall Street protest movement and the Tea Party that preceded it catering to Americans angry about the country's business and government institutions, a statew...
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November 4, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — A university's poll of North Carolina residents finds President Barack Obama and Democrats are persuasive when they say millionaires should pay higher taxes.
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November 3, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Anti-abortion protesters say a North Carolina city's ordinance violates their free-speech rights by giving police too much leeway in deciding where and when demonstrations are permissible.
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November 1, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina students are right about average on math and reading test results.The report released today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show the state's schools are making slow progress on improving test scores...
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October 27, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Advances in Internet investigation technology have allowed state and federal agents in North Carolina to find and arrest two dozen alleged child porn dealers without the usually critical public tips or leads developed from related cas...
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October 3, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected poultry processor House of Raeford's bid to stave off criminal charges that the North Carolina-based company of willfully releasing turkey remains into waterways in violation of federal clean...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Duke Energy and Progress Energy said today they'll need only about two weeks to address concerns from federal regulators that their merger will too heavily concentrate the electric power market in the Carolinas.
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September 30, 2011
RALEIGH. (AP) — A majority of North Carolina residents say they oppose a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, a result unchanged since before the General Assembly voted to place the issue before voters in May, a poll released Fr...
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September 27, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — A group representing small businesses is protesting the possibility of regulations they say would limit job growth.The National Federation of Independent Business highlighted the issue Tuesday at a Raleigh company that shapes iron and...
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September 20, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Critics of a proposed Duke Energy-Progress Energy merger asked state regulators Tuesday to impose a broad list of conditions that if required would force revolutionary changes to the business of any merger of Duke Energy and Progress...
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