June 19, 2009
RALEIGH — North Carolina safety regulators said Friday they are investigating 10 companies in the natural gas explosion that killed three people at a Slim Jim plant, including two cited in a lawsuit brought by injured workers. Labor Department spoke...
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May 28, 2009
CARTHAGE (AP) — A prosecutor said Thursday she will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing eight people during a shooting rampage at a nursing home in central North Carolina.Moore County District Attorney Maureen Krueger made the st...
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May 20, 2009
RALEIGH — Suffice it to say that in U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Dixon's opinion, ousted Duke University golfer Andrew Giuliani's lawsuit against the school did not make par. Dixon sprinkled golf lingo and even a quote from the movie "Caddysha...
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May 5, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Three years ago, authorities went to the town of Spring Lake to check into claims local police weren't doing enough to investigate the beating death of a little girl. A year later, the county district attorney started asking question...
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April 8, 2009
FORT BRAGG (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden welcomed home soldiers after their 15-month deployment to Iraq, telling U.S. troops Wednesday that the war-torn nation is "a country where violence is replaced by progress.""You did more than...
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March 30, 2009
CARTHAGE (AP) — Justin Garner turned down a chance to join the state highway patrol so he could stay on his small hometown's police force. In just five years, he'd already been named Officer of the Year. And when a call came in that a gunman was sho...
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January 21, 2009
RALEIGH — Sunny skies replaced snow clouds in most of North Carolina on Wednesday but temperatures remained near freezing after a slippery morning commute. The storm that produced snow Tuesday moved offshore. Fishing captain Bobby Ballou, 74, of Morehea...
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December 5, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - A soldier's exoneration in the bombing deaths of two superiors in Iraq shows military juries are not just "rubber stamps" for commanders and can be independent thinkers, legal analysts said Friday. A Fort Bragg jury on Thursday found New Yo...
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December 4, 2008
FORT BRAGG (AP) - A soldier was acquitted of murder Thursday in the 2005 bombing deaths of two superiors in Iraq, triggering loud outbursts and gasps from the slain officers' families. A military jury found National Guard Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez not g...
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November 24, 2008
FORT BRAGG (AP) - The New York soldier accused of killing two superior officers in Iraq said Monday he won't testify in his defense during his court-martial at Fort Bragg. The defense team for Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez wrapped up its case after the judg...
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November 18, 2008
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ Justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court peppered attorneys with questions Tuesday in a death row case that may decide whether doctors can be punished by a licensing board for attending an execution. Executions have been on hold f...
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October 23, 2008
FORT BRAGG (AP) - The military is working to ease the stigma for soldiers seeking help with domestic problems, which have been blamed for the deaths of four North Carolina military women this year, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. Gates...
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October 16, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - A state court judge said Thursday he wants to hear arguments from lawyers for the state and condemned inmates in a case over how executions are performed in a fight that has brought capital punishment to a halt in the state. "I'm not going...
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October 3, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — The husband of a female soldier found stabbed to death near her home was arrested Friday and charged with murder along with a second man authorities say was hired to kill the woman. The death of 29-year-old Sgt. Christina E. Smith was the...
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September 26, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - A storm that worried forecasters but never gained tropical strength over the Atlantic pushed across the Carolinas on Friday with scattered power outages and propelled rain and rough surf farther up Atlantic seaboard. Meteorologist Barrett S...
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September 24, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - A storm that could strengthen into a tropical system was poised to hit North Carolina's coastline with 40 mph wind gusts and several inches of rain, forecasters said Wednesday.Meteorologist Mark Bacon at the National Weather Service office...
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September 23, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Forecasters posted gale warnings for the Southeast coast because of a storm system threatening to bring stiff winds and heavy seas later this week. But the weather seemed about par Tuesday to some coastal residents. On North Carolina's Oc...
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September 11, 2008
FORT BRAGG (AP) — A pregnant soldier's unit at Fort Bragg didn't follow procedures for keeping track of newly arrived personnel, the Army said in a report today on the disappearance of the woman, whose body was found this summer at an off-base motel. Th...
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September 2, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - State officials examined two previous September hurricanes Tuesday as they prepared for possible damage from a storm forecast to come ashore later this week and tear through North Carolina's interior. Planners readying for Tropical Storm Ha...
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August 28, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — The National Weather Service today confirmed that a tornado touched down Wednesday in Randolph County as the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay lingered over the Outer Banks. Meteorologist Scott Sharp at the Raleigh weather service bureau sai...
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August 7, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Erik Darling, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group The Weavers, has died after battling lymphoma. He was 74. He died Sunday in Chapel Hill, not far from Rale...
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July 31, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — The Army has finished its investigation into why a pregnant soldier found dead in a Fayetteville motel room wasn't reported absent after she missed roll call, but cannot release the results yet, a spokesman said Thursday. Fort Bragg spoke...
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July 24, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — The son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is suing Duke University, claiming his golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify kicking him off the team to whittle the squad. Andrew Giuliani, a 22-year-old rising sen...
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July 9, 2008
A nearly $80,000 pay raise for the governor's wife and other large pay raises at N.C. State University will have to be reviewed, state university officials decided Wednesday. Mary Easley, the wife of Gov. Mike Easley, is an executive in residence and seni...
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May 19, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Authorities have expanded a protected beach for endangered birds on Hatteras Island after someone tore down fences and signs marking the area, the National Park Service said Monday. The area is off-limits to vehicles under an agreemen...
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