Unnerving North Carolina parents as they prepare to send their children back to school next month, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has reported that drinking water at least 24 of its schools showed high lead levels last year.
Read moreAll living former North Carolina governors unified on Monday to protest two power-shifting constitutional amendments proposed by the General Assembly for the November ballot.
Read moreThree days after a teenager wielded a gun to rob a lemonade stand of $17, police in the booming North Carolina city say they are determined to nab the culprit.
Read moreEven with two inconclusive decisions from the Supreme Court last month in cases that could have cleared a legal path to ending partisan gerrymandering, a renewed challenge in North Carolina and a turn to the states could give advocates more options going forward.
Read moreMove over, Las Vegas. The Republican Party will host its 2020 presidential nominating convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit held Tuesday that North Carlina is immune from being sued by a flimmaker who accused the state of using his copyrighted images of Blackbeard’s pirate ship while it was being salvaged off the Carolina coast.
Read moreA Superior Court judge in North Carolina on Monday granted Duke Energy’s request to compel discovery of certain documents from insurers who have balked at covering the utility’s liabilities associated new state laws and federal regulations related to coal ash.
Read moreTwo North Carolina motorists claim in court that the state’s practice of suspending drivers’ licenses over unpaid parking tickets is a violation of their civil rights.
Read moreA father and son who belong to a secretive evangelical church in North Carolina pleaded guilty Friday to federal criminal charges in an unemployment benefits scheme that former congregants have said was part of a plan to keep money flowing into the church.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday dramatically cut $50 million jury award to neighbors of an industrial hog operation for intense the smells, noise and other disturbances they’ve endured.
Read moreNewly released video shows a North Carolina police officer putting a pedestrian in a chokehold during an exchange that sparked outrage over use of force.
Read moreGeorgia lawmakers reignited a simmering feud with Tennessee by recently approving a resolution that would establish a commission to convince the Volunteer State and North Carolina to give up a one-mile strip of land so it can access the Tennessee River.
Read moreNorth Carolina asked the Fourth Circuit on Thursday to reverse a ruling that said the state pirated stock footage shot by a Virginia company of the 18th century pirate ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge.
Read moreA white police officer whose body camera recorded him beating a black pedestrian he accused of jaywalking has been arrested on assault charges in North Carolina.
Read moreThe judges, deputies and clerks showed up for court, but one key element was missing: No one had invited any jurors.
Read moreVoters in North Carolina filed an emergency motion Wednesday asking a state court to order that election districts crafted by a court-appointed special master be put into effect in time for upcoming state elections.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court told North Carolina officials late Tuesday they must use some but not all of the state’s legislative districts that other federal judges redrew for this year’s elections.
Read moreA federal judge Wednesday ordered North Carolina election officials to reinstate primary elections for judicial candidates seeking statewide office this year.
Read moreAttorneys for a coalition of animal-protection, consumer-rights, and food-safety organizations on Thursday urged the Fourth Circuit to overturn a North Carolina law they say amounts to a gag order for whistleblowers and chills their freedom of speech.
Read moreAn attorney for a North Carolina strip club argued before the Fourth Circuit Wednesday that an ordinance adopted by the city of Rocky Mount to regulate sexually oriented businesses is overly broad and should be thrown out.
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