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Four colleges in North Carolina are ranked among the country's best values in private higher education.

COLUMBUS -- The unemployment claims systems in Ohio and at least two other states buckled this week under an onslaught of telephone calls and Web site hits from people who lost their jobs at the end of 2008, ...

Babies do better after a scheduled Caesarean section if they're born no sooner than seven days before their due date, a new large study of U.S. births shows.

The North Carolina Transportation Department estimates the number of people killed on the state's roads in 2008 dropped by 18 percent, compared with the previous year.

Brinks Inc. has offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed an armored truck guard in North Carolina last month.

All 100 North Carolina counties experienced a rise in unemployment in November, with 17 posting double-digit jobless rates.

Authorities in eastern North Carolina charged a man Tuesday with several counts of animal cruelty after investigators found dismembered animals at his home.

Electronic unemployment filing systems have crashed in at least three states in recent days amid an unprecedented crush of thousands of newly jobless Americans seeking benefits, and other states were adjusting ...

North Carolina Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue has wrapped up her Cabinet picks by choosing a former deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to lead the agency.

The newest members of North Carolina's congressional delegation are officially beginning their work in Washington.

The North Carolina Council of State will try to help stimulate the state economy by signing off on new debt for state construction projects.

A North Carolina law firm named for two former governors is merging with a South Carolina firm that wants a location in North Carolina's capital city.

A North Carolina National Guard general will oversee day-to-day operations at the Department of Transportation under Beverly Perdue's administration.

Three Virginia sites are among 10 in the South that the Southern Environmental Law Center regards as most endangered.

Pittsburgh is No. 1 in The Associated Press' college basketball poll for the first time.

CANDLER A relative says a woman killed in a North Carolina home where she rented a room had planned to move out in less than two weeks.

Planning a camping trip to a state park during a popular time of the year will become less of a gamble for North Carolina residents beginning in April.

A 19-year-old Florida man is charged with traveling to Delaware to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet.

When her son got his orders to head back to Iraq, Rosa Lamourt hatched her scheme to keep him stateside.

She didn't sleep much during the four months Spc. Jobel Barbosa spent in Iraq in 2004, driving a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle with the North Carolina National Guard. The idea of her only son, born when she was just 15, spending an entire year overseas was too much.

So when Barbosa _ a 29-year-old single father _ asked his mother to care for his daughter Christian, as she'd done during his first deployment, she simply refused.

For the next couple of months, officials with the UNC system and at public university campuses across the state will deal with two intertwined economics issues: budget cuts and tuition increases.