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The previously convicted rapist should never have been let out in the first place on an unsuspecting public.

Parents tempted to treat Junior's misbehavior with a lashing from a tree limb or dad's leather belt are being urged to think again.

State officials have sent a mental health team to assist Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro following a report that a patient died after staff left him in a chair for 22 hours.

New Zealand golfer Danny Lee shot a one-over par 71 in the first round of strokeplay at the US Amateur Championship today, putting him in a tie for 36th.

The U.S. presidential election presents a sharp contrast between two types of patriotism: John McCain stands as a war hero.

Given all the unwelcome publicity about former senator John Edwards, it is hard to believe that only a few years ago I wrote a column that began, "Don't you wish sometimes that North Carolina had some ...

Some people complain about any form of corporate welfare going to any business. I usually don't get all bent out of shape over broad tax breaks applied to business in general.

The best path to a clogged heart may be through the wrist. About a million artery-clearing angioplasties are performed in the United States each year, and the usual route is to thread a tube to the heart through an artery in the groin.

Now a major study shows going through the wrist instead can significantly lower the risk of bleeding _ without the discomfort of lying flat for hours while the incision site seals up.

Just one in 100 angioplasties is done via the wrist, and the approach isn't for everyone. But Monday's study promises to spur more specialists to use the method.

Tropical Storm Fay could bring substantial rain by the end of the week that would help ease a worsening drought in western North Carolina and South Carolina, forecasters said Monday.

At the national conference of the American Chemical Society on August 17, 2008, Linhardt announced that his research team may have accomplished this task by building the first fully synthetic heparin.

Gas prices may not be dropping as fast as they did in July, but those in Kinston are still among the cheapest in North Carolina.

Amid the hubbub, posing and raft of nonissues that will be predominant during the coverage of the upcoming Democratic and Republican primaries, actual issues that affect actual Americans may actually get a ...

Gov. Mike Easley made good on a lingering veto threat Sunday when he rejected a bill which would have eased boat towing restrictions for North Carolina motorists.

Fifty-seven illegal aliens working at Mills Manufacturing Corporation in Ashville, North Carolina were arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents.

More than a dozen charges against a teenager accused of killing two North Carolina college students will go before a grand jury next week, according to a court decision Tuesday.

Dry eyes follow Edwards' downfall By Froma Harrop It's hard to recall a political burial as fast and cold as that of John Edwards.

CINCINNATI : From his months-old French bistro, Jean-Robert de Cavel sees restored Italianate row houses against a backdrop of rundown tenements in this city's long-struggling Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.

Tougher penalties for people who commit gang-related crimes soon will be enforced in North Carolina.

New questions emerged Friday about John Edwards ' longtime chief fundraiser and the secret efforts that protected the pregnant woman with whom the former presidential candidate has admitted an affair in 2006.

North Carolina's community colleges will remain closed to illegal immigrants, at least until officials can review how other states handle the issue.