Scott Ralls, the new president of the N.C. Community College System, admits he has a bad habit of walking into messy situations when he starts a new job.
In a tribute to fallen Salisbury firefighters Victor Isler and Justin Monroe, "NASCAR Angels," a reality-based TV show, restored a 1979 Corvette and presented it to Isler's son.
Here's one man's opinion: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole is in jeopardy this year.
Something's been bothering me this presidential primary season, and I know just what it is.
Advocates for electing the president by popular vote are seizing on the fresh memories of candidates fawning over North Carolina's primary to push changes to the way the commander in chief is elected.
Chef Jim Alexander has several in the kitchen at his SouthPark restaurant, Zebra. Jim Noble has eight or nine in his kitchens at Rooster's and Noble's.
Ruth Davis banked on looking like just another granny in the slow lane.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are seeking help identifying two men who were inside the Country Hearth Inn when one clerk was killed and another was wounded by gunfire.
Two years ago, a motorist drove into the wall of a Lexington, Ky., parking deck. The crash dislodged a piece of precast concrete, causing it to fall to a lower level and kill a woman.
The N.C. Medical Board has scheduled a hearing June 17 on allegations that Dr. Carl Trent Augustus acted unprofessionally by failing to repay money that he received, in error, from an insurance company.
North Carolina's growing prison population is fast outstripping prison capacity, and state lawmakers are seeking solutions as they craft a budget.
Cocaine circulated so readily in Charleston's upper-crust circles that former State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel confessed that, in his orbit, users shared the powder "like a football ... back and forth."
Mount Holly police Friday released a surveillance video showing UNC Charlotte sophomore Irina Yarmolenko dropping off donations just a few hours before she was believed to have been slain on May 5.
A crowd of Sun Valley High students gathered outside the school Friday to protest what they say were derogatory comments by a teacher about Latinos.
The grievous path away from a charred Ocean Isle Beach house has not been easy for those who lost loved ones in the deadly, swift-moving blaze or for those who miraculously escaped the flames.
Robert Mondavi, the Napa Valley vintner whose drive and salesmanship revolutionized the way the world thought about California wine, died Friday at his Yountville, Calif., home. He was 94.
Warren Cowan, one of the last of the publicists who helped make Hollywood a glamour capital, died Wednesday, just three weeks after the 87-year-old was diagnosed with cancer.In 1950, Cowan joined publicist Henry Rogers to form Rogers and Cowan, which soon became the biggest publicity company in Hollywood. Among their clients: Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Doris Day, Clint Eastwood, Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Danny Kaye and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1988, the company was sold...
Not all true champions get a newspaper article and picture to announce their exalted status. Fewer still have a hugely gaudy belt as a symbol of their championship. But Penny did, and she wore it with pride.
A landscaper working at race car driver Dale Jarrett's Lake Hickory home was pulled unconscious from the water Friday and was in cardiac arrest when he was rushed to the hospital, authorities said.
