NC Debt Consolidation in North Carolina

North Carolina's rising unemployment rate has triggered a safety net that may catch about 40,000 jobless North Carolinians who have exhausted their unemployment benefits in the past year.

A federal grand jury has charged two former executives at a company seeking to build an ethanol plant in eastern North Carolina with conspiring to commit extortion and bribery.

John McCain faces a fresh assault by Democrats ahead of the second presidential debate on Tuesday night as he was linked to a central figure in the Watergate break-in and a group implicated in the Iran-Contra ...

Jury selection set to begin for alleged murderer By Jennifer Harr - 10/05/2008 On Monday morning, lawyers in Fayette County will start the process of selecting a panel of jurors to hear the facts of a ...

An autopsy report says a Florida man who jumped 70 feet off a waterfall in the North Carolina mountains died in an accident and not a suicide.

For the third weekend in a row, Barack Obama campaigned in North Carolina as part of the most vigorous Democratic effort since at least 1992 to win this reliably Republican state.

Laura Gadd pauses at the edge of a pristine savanna, delicately lifting her feet to avoid trampling any Venus' flytraps hidden underfoot.

Most people who experience chronic heartburn have symptoms that are caused by gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD.

National Fire Prevention Week is Oct. 5-11 and the N.C. Division of Forest Resources is urging residents throughout the state to be careful with fire, especially during the upcoming fall fire season.

About a dozen people marched in Durham, seeking reparations for those who died in riots in Wilmington in 1898.

October 2, 2008, 3:09 p.m. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released results from a new poll in North Carolina's 8th district Thursday that showed high school teacher Larry Kissell ahead of Rep.

SINGER Janet Jackson has postponed three more shows on her North American tour as she continues to recover from an undisclosed illness.

Barack Obama says Republican rival John McCain is "out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time." During a campaign swing in North Carolina, Obama hit McCain on the economy and health care, trying to ...

North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley wants help from the federal government for farmers who have suffered crop losses due to the drought that began last year.

A North Carolina textile company said it closed two plants and laid off 200 workers this week because it couldn't find the credit it needed to keep going.

When Rep. J. Gresham Barrett went home to his district this week, his constituents were still hopping mad over the financial bailout that the House of Representatives, with the South Carolina Republican's help, ...

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama made a surprise visit yesterday to a political dinner in Asheville, praising party candidates all the way down the November ballot.

The mayors of several of North Carolina's largest cities have endorsed Democrat Beverly Perdue for governor, not fellow municipal leader Pat McCrory.

Two men who police say kidnapped a Maryland bank manager and her two children and forced her to take money from her bank before releasing her unharmed have been arrested in North Carolina.

The findings, published in the Oct. 3, 2008, issue of the journal Science, relate to a property of so-called "nano-confined" water specifically, whether hollow carbon nanotubes take in the liquid easily or ...