Updated: 9:57 PM The prosecutor assigned to weigh criminal charges against former Edwards aide Andrew Young, his wife and their two lawyers said Monday there's not enough evidence to sustain a case.
Updated: 11:02 AM People retiring today are part of the first generation of workers who've paid more in Social Security taxes during their careers than they'll receive in benefits after they retire.
Posted: 8:49 PM Gov. Beverly Perdue's campaign spent more than $80,000 in legal fees in the first six months of 2012, much of it on criminal defense lawyers representing the Democrat and members of her staff.
Posted: 4:43 PM Republican Party organizations in three neighboring states say they'll send resources into North Carolina to help GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney win the Tar Heel state's electoral votes.
Updated: 10:12 AM Sputtering along, the economy is offering some hope but no illuminating help to voters who are mired in a weak jobs recovery and flooded with familiar promises from President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney.
Posted: 10:03 PM The tax free weekend is upon us and plenty of people are hitting the stores to save a few bucks, including the governor.
Updated: 7:43 PM Harvey West, Jr. of Plymouth resigned as an alternate delegate from North Carolina to the Republican National Convention.
Updated: 7:58 PM President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are both getting new talking points on the economy, with the government reporting the addition of 163,000 jobs in July while the overall unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent.
Posted: 7:36 PM Gov. Beverly Perdue says she's listening to ideas and offers about what she should do after her term ends this year, and writing a book is high on the list of possibilities.
Updated: 10:10 PM Durham County Judge Orlando Hudson ruled Thursday that the cellphone law was pre-empted by the state legislature, which has already enacted laws regulating the use of cellphones while driving.
Posted: 7:25 AM Republican Party officials say they will not replace Rep. Stephen LaRoque of Kinston after his indictment on theft charges.
Updated: 5:50 PM Jerry Ensminger of Elizabethtown was at the White House on Monday, when President Barack Obama signed the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act.
Posted: 11:47 PM The Democrats' platform drafting committee voted to include language backing same-sex unions at a meeting in Minneapolis over the weekend.
Updated: 8:49 PM The new firm's web site gives her title as managing partner and lists her role as president of the education foundation named for her late mother, Elizabeth Edwards. The biography makes no mention of her father, the Democrat who sought the White House in 2008.
Updated: 1:16 PM With elections nearing, the Obama administration has put a growing list of potential regulations on hold. The affected rules include everything from banning children from dangerous work on farms to cracking down on junk food at school bake sales.
Updated: 1:20 PM A spokeswoman for Mitt Romney's campaign says his comments in Jerusalem today were "grossly mischaracterized."
Posted: 9:54 PM Vice President Joe Biden says Mitt Romney doesn't treat public education as a priority and distrusts the hardworking teachers who struggle to create opportunity for the nation's young people.
Posted: 6:43 PM Mitt Romney is calling Jerusalem "the capital of Israel" and is pledging to stand with the U.S. ally.
Updated: 10:12 AM U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney, taking an aggressive stand on Iran, says Tehran's leaders are giving the world "no reason to trust them with nuclear material." He would "respect" an Israeli decision for military action to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capability, a campaign adviser said.
Posted: 10:07 AM Ask Americans how race relations have changed under their first black president and they are ready with answers.
Updated: 2:27 PM New day, old bickering between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans.
Posted: 9:23 AM Mitt Romney's support for Israel will likely earn the presumptive Republican presidential nominee a warm welcome from Israeli leaders when he visits on Sunday - and a frosty reception from Palestinians, who fear he would do little to advance their stalled statehood dreams
Updated: 12:52 AM A U.S. Representative from the east is reacting to state representative Stephen Laroque's resignation from his position this week, just 9 days after being indicted by a federal grand jury.
Posted: 3:53 AM From Barrow, Alaska, to Key West, Fla., the mail always gets through. But in the days leading up to Election Day, mailed ballots absolutely must get through, or the nation's electoral process would be thrown into havoc.
Updated: 6:35 AM The Greenville- New Bern market ranks 6th in the country for political advertising between July 23rd and 29th.
