RALEIGH Gov. Pat McCrory’s office announced Thursday that visitor spending has increased in 91 counties in North Carolina. According to the release, visitors spent a record $21.9 billion for the 2015-16 fiscal year, an […]
RALEIGH The back-and-forth of North Carolina’s voting laws has left North Carolina’s county election boards scrambling to adapt, the state’s Republican Party head said Wednesday.By reverting to the voting rules in place before the […]
RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian police stopped two U.S. Olympic swimmers from boarding a flight home Wednesday to question them about how they and two teammates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro over […]
MOORESVILLE, N.C. Home improvement retailer Lowe’s reported lower-than-expected quarterly sales and profit and cut its full-year earnings forecast, sending its shares down in premarket trading on Wednesday.Analysts had expected a stronger performance for the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tapped two North Carolinians to be agriculture advisers for his campaign. Sen. Brent Jackson (R-Sampson County) and Bob Goodale, the former CEO of grocery chain Harris […]
BATON ROUGE, La. Search-and-rescue operations were still underway Tuesday in Louisiana, where at least nine people have died in flooding that damaged about 40,000 homes, state officials said.Emergency crews have already plucked more than […]
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Democratic vice president nominee Tim Kaine drew on his life as a Virginia politician and as a father of a son serving in the Marines, hoping to appeal to voters in Eastern […]
RALEIGH Local businessman Chuck Edwards, from Henderson County, has been chosen to serve the remainder of Sen. Tom Apodaca’s term following the influential Republican’s announced retirement on July 15.Edwards, from Flat Rock, N.C., won […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. N.C. Congressman Richard Hudson (R-08) accused President Obama of “recklessness” after U.S. officials said on Monday that 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates. This is […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. On Monday, North Carolina asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a state law requiring voters to show identification to remain in effect for the Nov. 8 U.S. election while the state […]
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