With unemployment at 8.3 percent, Obama said the task of recovering from the economic disaster of 2008 is exceeded in American history only by the challenge Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced when he took office in the Great Depression in 1933.

Vice President Joe Biden says he's on a mission to move America forward amidst the worst economic crisis in a generation.

Gabrielle Giffords has inspired the cheering delegates at the Democratic National Convention by leading the Pledge of Allegiance.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia can work with Mitt Romney if he's elected U.S. president, even though he has called Russia the United States' "No. 1 geopolitical foe."

The union for North Carolina's state employees will hear from several politicians at its annual convention, but Democratic gubernatorial nominee Walter Dalton won't be one of them.

President Barack Obama inherited a wreck of an economy, "put a floor under the crash" and laid the foundation for millions of good new jobs, former President Bill Clinton declared Wednesday night.

North Carolina's most prominent Democrat says Barack Obama "is a great education president who is rebuilding America" and should be elected president.

President Barack Obama personally intervened to order Democrats to change language in their party platform to add a mention of God and declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

President Barack Obama's convention speech in Charlotte Thursday night is being moved inside because of the threat of severe weather.

Democrats are using one of President Barack Obama's strong suits, that voters believe he understands the problems of ordinary people, to trump his weakest suit, the economy.

Rose's wife Stacye Hefner said Tuesday that Rose died of Parkinson's disease at a hospital near their northern Alabama home.

New Morehead City manager David Whitlow from Virginia started his job in Carteret County Tuesday.

Pitt County and Greenville law enforcement had 2 major back to back events at ECU, and when monetary resources are thin it can put on a strain on law enforcement.

Better off than four years ago? Even some of President Barack Obama's biggest fans have to work to get to "yes," but they expect him to make the case more forcefully.

Castro, the first Hispanic chosen to deliver a keynote address, was unsparing in criticizing Romney, even suggesting the former Massachusetts governor might not even be the driving force on the Republican ticket this fall.

Perdue praised President Obama for his education initiatives and said he'll win the state's electoral votes.

The chairman of the California Democratic Party has compared Republican tactics during the presidential campaign to the "big lie" strategy most famously employed by Nazi propagandists.

It's a question that aides to any president seeking re-election should be ready to handle: Are Americans better off now than before he took office?

Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan talked to several thousand at ECU Monday with hundreds more watching a live broadcast from nearby Hendrix Theater.

Instead of opening the Democratic National Convention on Labor Day, Charlotte held a street party.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a lead over President Barack Obama in North Carolina according to a new poll.

Clint Eastwood gave the Republicans some offbeat remarks to remember this year. Will the Democrats come up with any memorable lines?

In response to Paul Ryan’s visit to ECU’s campus Monday some local Democrats decided to hold their own rally, which turned out to look more like a protest.

The police chief says a protest march ahead of the Democratic National Convention has gone smoothly.

National labor leaders are joining the president of the North Carolina conference of the NAACP to push for voter registration campaigns, especially in the South.