For Dr. Lynn Johnson of Greenville, petty theft is nothing new when it is a presidential election year.

Democratic Sen. Floyd McKissick asked McCrory's campaign to stop running what he called an offensive ad in which former Wilson County Sheriff Wayne Gay speaks.

President Barack Obama worked to squash GOP hopes for a resurgence in pivotal Wisconsin on Saturday, pushing back against his GOP rival's complaints about an overly intrusive government and attracting his biggest crowd of the campaign.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney heads to Colorado on Sunday, the first stop in what advisers call an "intense battleground state schedule" aimed at countering GOP criticism that his campaign is mismanaged and misdirected.

Michelle Obama says protecting the right to vote has become the nation's most important civil rights issue.

President Barack Obama says change takes more than one term in the White House, more than one president and more than one party.

Democrats say Mitt Romney manipulated his deductions to keep his overall 2011 federal income tax rate below a certain level for political purposes. The Republican presidential nominee is certain to face new questions about his finances.

A breeze of momentum on his side, President Barack Obama is moving to shore up support in a key state while he and rival Mitt Romney spar over how to transform a bitterly divided political culture and how to best ensure the financial and health security of older Americans.

Aides said Mitt Romney earned almost $13.7 million last year and paid more than $1.9 million in taxes -- an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent.

Now it's Mitt Romney who wants to be the candidate of change.

The trial of a former Lenoir County state legislator accused of theft and money laundering has been delayed until February.

Hispanics are the focus Thursday as the presidential race moves to Florida.

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will make their first joint appearance on the daytime show "The View" next week.

A two-year U.S. Department of Justice investigation determined that Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson illegally targeted and arrested Latinos without probable cause to boost deportations.

House Republicans and Democrats have come to agree on at least one way to reduce government spending, by ending federal assistance for the two parties' increasingly expensive and stage-managed presidential conventions.

The Republican campaign looks to play turnabout on inconvenient recorded statements from the candidates' pasts.

Republican senators tried to verbally navigate their way through requests for reaction to Mitt Romney's secretly recorded comments writing off -- and dismissing - 47% of Americans who will support President Barack Obama "no matter what."

A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that Americans are feeling markedly better about the country's future and about Barack Obama's job performance. That said, the president's re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney remains a neck-and-neck proposition.

South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley will cross the state line to speak at a rally in Fayetteville for Pat McCrory, the Republican candidate for North Carolina governor.

First Lady Michelle Obama was in Greenville for the first time Wednesday.

Third-party groups are running new television ads in the North Carolina governor's race that seek to question Democrat Walter Dalton on taxes and Republican Pat McCrory on his work history.

Plans for a poultry plant in Nash County are moving forward after county commissioners passed a resolution Monday night, 5 votes to 2.

As Election Day nears, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is looking to recover from a tough week dominated by foreign policy as President Barack Obama balances campaigning for a second term with the duties of the Oval Office in the face of spreading anti-American violence in the Muslim world.

U.S. officials say two U.S. Marines have been killed and several other troops wounded in an attack on a British air base in southern Afghanistan.

Michelle Obama is scheduled to visit East Carolina University's Minges Coliseum in Greenville Wednesday. Tickets are still available Tuesday.