Three years after it opened, the first section of Fayetteville's Interstate 295 loop is mostly quiet.
She's led a campaign to stop teens from drinking and worked to put North Carolina on the arts map. She's read to schoolchildren and honored teachers. She's trained lawyers and police officers.
When Afshin Ghazi moved to Charlotte in 1994, fresh out of college and full of big ideas, a prominent developer asked what he was doing here, he recalls.
A pair of conjoined barn swallows, attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle tissue, will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution for study and examination, Arkansas wildlife officials said.
More than 1.5 million revelers danced through the streets of the western German city of Dortmund on Saturday at the annual Love Parade techno music festival.
World powers Saturday gave Iran two weeks to agree to freeze its uranium enrichment program at its current size as a first step toward full-scale negotiations on its nuclear program, or face further U.N. sanctions and isolation.
In a shift toward political reconciliation and away from sectarianism, Iraq's largest Sunni bloc ended a nearly yearlong boycott Saturday and rejoined the cabinet, retaking six ministry spots.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got his first look at deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan on Saturday, meeting with U.S. military commanders and local officials and touring part of the country by helicopter on the first day of a highly anticipated visit to the Middle East and Europe that drew a fresh rebuke from Republican John McCain.
Afshin Ghazi's American dream began on bicentennial day, 1976.
WASHINGTON Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home near Pittsburgh.
In an effort to relocate homeless from a developing area of uptown, police this month launched a crackdown on misdemeanors at a popular gathering spot for free meals.
A few wildfires still burning
London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge, and now Beijing has an iconic structure that's likely to identify the city forever.
John McCain was in his favorite campaign setting, a town hall meeting, when he spotted a promising target.
Developer Steven G. Harris, responding to the July 13 Observer editorial, “City treats its plans as if they're on Kleenex”:
Nelson Mandela turned 90 years old on Friday. That he has lived this long is remarkable in that nearly one-third of life was spent incarcerated, most of that time under brutal conditions. But that he turned 90 as one of the world's most admired citizens is an astonishing testament to the power of moral courage and forgiveness.
The Bush administration's pledge to rescue ailing housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raises anew questions about when the nation's dismal housing market will hit bottom.
When the queen had a bad year – what with the kids separating and that fire at the big house – she called it the
For weeks, nearly every time President Bush has spoken about energy, he has re-emphasized his support for drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Nothing can undo what happened to 17-year-old Darryl Turner. He died in March of cardiac arrest after being shot with a Taser gun by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer.
Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape to the wind. Pursued by a helicopter, they ran into a corral – unwilling recruits in an emotional debate over whether euthanasia should be used to thin a captive herd that already numbers 30,000.
Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, keeping up efforts begun in the U.S. to publicly atone for what he called evil acts by priests.
For those desperate souls who would sneak across this frontier, consider the obstacles: armed bandits. A river, low this time of year but still populated by crocodiles and man-mauling hippos. Multiple rows of fences watched by zealous border guards. And all along, the goal is to enter a country that's dangerously hostile to immigrants.
Legislators sometimes ignore pressing problems until it's too late. But after devastating droughts of recent years and a broader understanding of the state's need for unpolluted surface and ground water, the 2008 legislature produced at least three significant initiatives during the short session that ended Friday:
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The sandwich board-style sign outside the Starbucks Coffee on Wilkinson Boulevard in Charlotte read “Now Open” Friday. Inside, employees joked that another phrase would work better: “Open for now.”
The United States and Iraq have agreed to a “general time horizon” for further reductions of U.S. combat troops in Iraq, the White House said Friday, the first time the Bush administration has agreed to set any kind of timeline for troop withdrawals.
It was not so long ago that the idea that John McCain would even entertain tapping Mitt Romney, his bitterest primary rival, as his running mate would have seemed preposterous.
The N.C. Department of Labor said that it will not significantly change its inspections of poultry plants, despite four new positions created to improve enforcement of safety laws.
As Chris Finegan watched Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker on Friday in “The Dark Knight,” he couldn't help but think of another actor: James Dean, who also died prematurely and tragically, nearly 53 years ago.
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After months of resistance, several big fast-food chains have finally begun obeying a first-of-its-kind New York City rule requiring some restaurants to post calorie counts right on the menu.
Two French humanitarian workers were kidnapped at gunpoint Friday in Afghanistan and spirited out of the house they were sleeping in, the aid group Action Against Hunger and the French Foreign Ministry said.
Iraqi soldiers took up positions on rooftops and military helicopters hovered overhead Friday in a show of strength in a Baghdad district where Shiite militiamen once ruled the streets. There were no reports of violence.
A new U.S.-Iraqi agreement raising the possibility of a withdrawal timeline threatens to complicate the war policies of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
