November 17, 2009
SANFORD (AP) — The father of a 5-year-old girl whose body was found off a rural road regrets giving the girl's mother a chance to raise their daughter, even though she seemed to be getting her life together.The girl's father, Bradley Lockhart, said...
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November 3, 2009
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A real estate developer known as an active member of his church shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their home.Authorities did not hint at a motive for the slayings by William Maxwell in a...
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October 22, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In the face of outrage from victims and their families, North Carolina's governor on Thursday challenged a quarter-century-old policy on prison good conduct credits, saying she would not free a group of violent inmates who were...
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September 17, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Residents of the small North Carolina town where dance instructor Johnny Castle practiced lifts with Baby Houseman in the iconic movie "Dirty Dancing" will remember star Patrick Swayze with a memorial service this weekend. A...
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August 12, 2009
RALEIGH — Call this one the deli meats throwdown.A high-end deli meat and cheese maker that has been kicked out of a major North Carolina grocery store chain in favor of its main competitor isn't being quiet about the slight.Instead, Philadelp...
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July 14, 2009
BUTNER (AP) — Bernard Madoff's life of luxury is a thing of the past.The disgraced financier blamed for what is believed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history arrived Tuesday at a federal prison in North Carolina to begin a 150-year sentence in...
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June 9, 2009
RALEIGH — N.C. State fired former first lady Mary Easley from her $170,000-a-year job Monday as newly released documents indicated her husband was involved in her hiring.The termination of Easley’s contract capped months of questions about the...
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June 8, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — E-mails released by N.C. State indicate former Gov. Mike Easley was involved in the school's hiring of his wife.The e-mails were released today as Chancellor James Oblinger resigned, becoming the third school official to leave a post...
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June 2, 2009
MONROE (AP) — Heather Thompson's blackened and bloodied face has served as a warning to battered women in North Carolina. On a billboard and in brochures, she tells them they can get help.Since her ex-husband used pliers and a broom handle and a bel...
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March 25, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — John Hope Franklin, a revered Duke University historian and scholar of life in the South and the African-American experience in the United States, died Wednesday. He was 94. Duke spokesman David Jarmul said Franklin died of congestive...
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March 23, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Filmmaker Mark Rydell makes it all look so easy, what with his 26 Oscar nominations for movies such as "On Golden Pond." But he recalled his early days of breaking into the business as "awful," and said he hopes he...
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March 12, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Jake Rademacher finally got to go to war. It wasn't the way he had hoped — his childhood dream to attend West Point was dashed when poor eyesight kept him out. Instead, he followed two younger brothers to Iraq, filming them and...
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March 5, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) - Blackbeard has a starrrrin' role in this pirate exhibit at a North Carolina museum as he be the most famous of the swashbucklin' buccaneers, but he's hardly the only one represented thar. The almost yearlong exhibit, "Knights of the Black F...
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March 2, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) - The North Carolina mother who reported for Army duty with her two young children will be discharged from the military, her attorney said Monday. Attorney Mark Waple of Fayetteville said it wasn't yet clear if Lisa Pagan would receive an hon...
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February 26, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) - The North Carolina Symphony is releasing its first commercial recording, which features performances with saxophonist and band leader Branford Marsalis. The compact disc titled "American Spectrum" was being released Thursday at a news confe...
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February 17, 2009
Some North Carolina television stations are switching from analog to digital signals ahead of the extended June 12 deadline. In the Triad, WXLV (ABC, Channel 45) and WMYV (MyNetwork TV, Channel 48), both in Winston-Salem, switched early. Both are owned by...
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October 8, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - He doesn't have a script and shooting could be more than a year away. But producer Thom Mount seems optimistic that the original cast could return for a sequel to "Bull Durham," the movie that made minor league baseball stadiums the place t...
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September 25, 2008
WILMINGTON (AP) - A massive indoor water tank for filmmakers to shoot underwater shots, said to be among only three in North America, will become part of a North Carolina studio that also will soon include the largest sound stage built east of California.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - A massive indoor water tank for filmmakers to shoot underwater shots, said to be among only three in North America, will become part of a North Carolina studio that also will soon include the largest sound stage built east of Calif...
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August 28, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Not many people are familiar with the name Isaac Lefevers, but in pottery circles, he's known as the James Dean of North Carolina pottery.Like the actor known for "Rebel Without a Cause," Lefevers was talented and died young. The Lincoln Co...
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August 21, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - The Hatteras Island residents who worked behind the scenes and in front of the camera on "Nights in Rodanthe" will get a chance to see the movie before it opens nationally next month.The invitation-only screening of the movie starring Richa...
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July 21, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - The center dedicated to supporting North Carolina's potters is in danger of closing unless it raises $100,000 to continue supporting the state's most enduring art form, supporters say in a letter. The North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagr...
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July 14, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Spending by film, television and production companies was more than $160 million in North Carolina in 2007, and the state budget includes changes meant to make the stars shine brighter in the state. The North Carolina Film Office released t...
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June 16, 2008
TARBORO (AP) — A couple accused of killing their 13-year-old son by tying him to a tree for two nights for punishment appeared in a North Carolina courtroom Monday to face charges of murder and felony child abuse. Attorneys appeared Monday with Bric...
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June 13, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- Smoke from a massive wildfire in eastern North Carolina is so intense that officials are warning residents in the northeastern part of the state to limit their time outdoors. State Division of Air Quality director Keith Overcash said Friday...
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