Grant Hayes and his wife, Amanda, are charged with killing Laura Ackerson back in 2011 in Raleigh.

Outgoing North Carolina chancellor Holden Thorp says presidents are often ill-equipped to run big-time sports programs and should give more control to their athletic directors.

NC State men’s basketball coach Mark Gottfried has announced the signing of 6-4, 194 pound guard Desmond Lee during the spring signing period.

North Carolina State is looking for a new quarterback to go with its new offense.

New North Carolina State women's basketball coach Wes Moore has hired Nikki West as his associate head coach.

Chaz Frank broke up a no-hitter in the sixth inning Wednesday with a game-tying RBI triple as North Carolina scored five unanswered runs in a 5-1 win over Coastal Carolina.

An effort to overhaul North Carolina's automobile insurance system has been thwarted in a House committee after Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and other speakers warned passing the bill would raise premium rates for everyone.

Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Pam Walker says Trooper Marlon Williams was suspended without pay as of today.

No. 1 North Carolina set season highs in runs and hits in Friday's series opener at Virginia Tech (22-13, 7-9 ACC) as the Tar Heels posted a 21-8 win over the Hokies.

North Carolina guard P.J. Hairston says he'll return for his junior season instead of entering the NBA draft.

The UNC Board of Governors selected Carol Folt on Friday. She becomes head of the country's oldest public university.

The Washington Capitals finished off a month's worth of role reversal Thursday night, winning their sixth straight and extending the Carolina Hurricanes' losing streak to seven with a 3-1 victory.

Peyton and Eli Manning listened intently to Duke coach David Cutcliffe's instructions as the NFL quarterbacks worked up a sweat, briskly throwing a mix of deep and short passes at the Blue Devils' indoor practice field.

No. 1 North Carolina captured its sixth straight win Wednesday night with a 7-5 win over visiting Liberty (18-16).

Raleigh police say shortly before 4:00 a.m. they responded to a call about a naked man near outside a church near Wiggs and Mial streets.

Religious leaders of several faiths are opposing the repeal of a North Carolina law allowing death row inmates to have their sentences reduced to life in prison if they can prove racial prejudice played a part in their trials.

North Carolina's attorney general says 122 murders in 2012 were the result of domestic violence, a 15 percent increase from the year before.

Tarran Senay's two-RBI lazy single in the sixth propelled No. 19 NC State (25-10) to a 2-0 victory over East Carolina (15-18) Tuesday night inside Doak Field at Dail Park in non-conference action.

Beau Bennett and Evgeni Malkin scored 13 seconds apart in the third period and the Pittsburgh Penguins clinched the Atlantic Division title by beating the free-falling Carolina Hurricanes 5-3 on Tuesday night.

McCrory spent his unsuccessful 2008 campaign for governor criticizing the appearance that appointments to state boards and commissions are earned through fundraising efforts.

The state Department of Revenue today arrested Eugene Harrison of H&J Tax Solvers.

State Police Sgt. Michelle Anaya says the accident occurred about 7:05 a.m. Friday on U.S. Route 58 in Capron. She says one person was killed.

William Ayers IV was arrested today at his Johnston County home by the Greenville Police Department's Special Victims Unit and the SBI.

One of the North Carolina legislators who sponsored a resolution declaring the state can make its own laws about religion without involvement from the federal government and courts is apologizing for any embarrassment to his community and state.

A bill to legalize and tax sweepstakes cafes in North Carolina has been filed by legislators whose campaigns accepted cash from gaming operators.