Category Archives: State News

AP-US-ELECTION-2020-RNCPence faults ‘negative’ DNC, previews next week’s RNC themesWASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence says next week's Republican Party convention "will make...

VIRUS OUTBREAK-VOTING MACHINESN.C. judge won’t halt use of touch-screen vote-mark machinesRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina judge has ruled certain touch-screen ballot-marking machines will ...

AP-NC-JAIL RELEASE-PREGNANT WOMANJudge releases pregnant woman from jail with virus outbreakCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A federal judge in North Carolina has released an inmate who is eight months pregnant...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's public schools have returned to class with most students still learning at home to start the year due to continued worries about COVID-19. Nearly all schools in K...

AP-US-PUBLIC-HEALTH-CARES-ACTPolitics slows flow of US virus funds to local public healthCongress has allocated trillions of dollars to ease the coronavirus crisis. A joint Kaiser Health News and AP i...

Governor Roy Cooper has declared August as North Carolina Preparedness Month, encouraging individuals, families, schools and businesses to review their emergency plans and update their emergency suppl...

VIRUS OUTBREAK-NORTH CAROLINA-COOPERForest abandons lawsuit challenging Cooper executive ordersRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has ended his lawsuit against Democratic Gov. Roy...

ELECTION 2020-POLL MONITORSConstraints gone, GOP ramps up effort to monitor votingWASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican Party heads into its first presidential contest this November free from decades-old l...

BC-NC-BASKETBALL COACH-FATAL PUNCHFormer assistant basketball coach sued over fatal punchThe mother of a New York tourist who was fatally punched has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a former as...

SPARTA, N.C. (AP) - Officials say an earthquake has shaken much of North Carolina, rattling homes, buildings and residents. The National Weather Service in Greenville said the 5.1-magnitude temblor st...