As food and gas prices hit historic highs, Duke Energy is shutting off more customers this year because they can't pay their power bills.
The Democrat challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry said Thursday that a string of recent GOP defeats could mean North Carolina's 10th District is in play this fall.
A wrecked car in a lonely spot by the Catawba River; a young woman's lifeless body on the ground; signs of a possible struggle nearby.
Coins minted in Charlotte when the Queen City was among the country's main suppliers of gold have been found amid the wreckage of a steamship that sank in 1846 in the Gulf of Mexico.
A panel reviewing state government e-mail storage policies recommended Thursday that qualifying messages be stored for at least five years and that state employees be better trained about how to comply with the public records law.
Why of course the members of the Charlotte City Council deserve a raise.
A player on Butler High School's powerhouse girls' softball team has been declared ineligible because of a falsified address, but the team won't forfeit any games.
Rodney Monroe, whose engaging personality and record of aggressive crime fighting won over city leaders and residents alike, will start work as Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief in June.
An Alexander County woman was charged with assault with a deadly weapon Wednesday night after her husband was shot several times in the back, authorities said.
Statewide candidates owe it to themselves Smith's $2.4 million leads winners and losers who borrowed a bunch
Cabarrus County building industry leaders will join a lawsuit to challenge a fee developers pay to build county schools.
Former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford, accused of taking payments to protect illegal video gambling operations in Western North Carolina, was convicted Thursday of extortion, money laundering and conspiracy.
A Bradley Middle School student faces disciplinary action after school authorities discovered a "hit list" with the names of other students in a notebook on Tuesday.
South Carolina may join five other states that let motorcyclists, moped drivers and bicyclists run red lights that don't change within a couple minutes of their stopping.
Ballet ultimately lives and dies by its dancing, of course. But N.C. Dance Theatre's new production of "Romeo and Juliet" depends even more on the performers' electricity than it should.
Inadequate training, outdated tactics and aging equipment helped lead to the deaths of nine Charleston firefighters fighting a furniture store blaze last year, according to a long-awaited analysis by fire experts released Thursday.
UNC Charlotte announced Thursday that it will offer a $10,000 reward for information that will help officers investigate the death of student Irina "Ira" Yarmolenko.
Be careful what you tell this kid. Someday you might hear yourself in a movie -- or a very dark Broadway play.
Cardinal Bernardin Gantin of Benin, whose influence in the Catholic Church was felt in Europe as well as West Africa, has died. He was 86.Gantin died Tuesday at a Paris hospital of complications caused by dehydration, said Jean-Yves Riocreux, the bishop of Pontoise.
Harvey Schein, who led Sony of America in the 1970s and doubled its size in spite of championing the failed Betamax video recording system and clashing with Sony's top Japanese executives, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 80.
Larry Levine, the recording engineer who helped create Phil Spector's groundbreaking "wall of sound" technique on hit records by such groups as the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers, died May 8 at his home in Encino, Calif. He was 80.
Dear Amy: I am 60 (shudder) years old and single. I joined a number of dating sites, and I've been e-mailing once or twice a day with a man my age who lives about 1,000 miles away. The photo he sent is of a very handsome man.
