Posted: 7:35 PM A state panel focused on reducing child deaths in North Carolina wants lawmakers this year to spend money promoting healthier pregnancies and safer infants while upgrading smoke-alarm requirements.
Posted: 7:07 PM Gov. Beverly Perdue has spoken to Mississippi's governor after she criticized the approval of last week's referendum banning gay marriage by saying it made North Carolina "look like Mississippi."
Posted: 8:26 AM Occupy Raleigh is joining another citizen initiative to protest North Carolina's constitutional amendment defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman.
Posted: 7:05 AM Lawyers for John Edwards will begin presenting his defense at the former presidential contender's campaign-finance trial.
Updated: 4:09 PM New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has told University of North Carolina graduates that last week's gay marriage vote shows there is still a lot of work to be done for civil rights in this country.
Posted: 9:31 PM A campaign to allow gays and lesbians to marry is continuing in North Carolina, where couples will continue to try to get marriage licenses next week.
Posted: 5:03 AM Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party's national convention in Charlotte.
Posted: 4:50 AM Investor and philanthropist David Rubenstein is giving $15 million to his alma mater, Duke University, following a series of high-profile gifts to projects including repairing the Washington Monument.
Updated: 10:18 PM Bryant, a Republican who became governor in January, said he intends to write to Perdue about her comments.
Updated: 7:42 PM Governor Beverly Perdue says Tuesday's passage of Amendment One makes the state look like Mississippi. Perdue made the remarks in response to a question from WITN's Brittany Gunter while in Greenville this morning.
Updated: 6:15 AM Governor Bev Perdue is scheduled to visit Sadie Saulter Elementary School in Greenville on Friday.
Posted: 8:04 PM In a somber, reflective ceremony, dozens of descendants of Southern troops gathered on the Battery in Charleston SC to mark Confederate Memorial Day in the state where the Civil War began.
Posted: 7:26 PM Add another county to the meager list of those that voted against North Carolina's amendment defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman.
Updated: 1:37 PM Multiple media reports indicate a U.S. Marine training at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville has been charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl he reportedly met on the internet.
Posted: 9:21 AM Police say they have seized 26 pounds of meth and have arrested eight people in two Eastern Carolina counties.
Updated: 10:30 AM Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue's final budget proposal relies heavily on a higher sales tax she wants to restore public school funding cuts from recent years and to expand other initiatives.
Updated: 11:53 PM Jones County voters decided against a referendum Tuesday that would have given 1/4 of a cent sales tax to their sheriff's office to supplement the county budget.
Updated: 7:57 PM Interstate 95 northbound in Rocky Mount has finally reopened after a fiery crash closed the highway last night.
Updated: 11:50 PM If you voted in the North Carolina district 5 senate seat, your vote didn't count.
Updated: 7:17 PM We spoke to a pastor in Greenville Wednesday who says he thinks the issue of marriage should never be put to a vote of the people or be in the state constitution because it is already God's law that it should only be between a man and woman.
Updated: 7:18 PM People across the state who are disappointed with the passage of Amendment One spoke out about Tuesday's vote approving the ban on gay marriage in our state constitution.
Posted: 7:54 PM Prosecutors told a judge they plan to finish presenting their case on Thursday. Rielle Hunter was not among the witnesses that they said they planned to call to the stand.
Updated: 3:01 PM The controversial Amendment 1, which passed with 61% of the vote on Tuesday had widespread support across much of Eastern Carolina.
Posted: 2:43 PM Five people have been arrested as they tried to force their way into the annual shareholders' meeting for Bank of America in Charlotte.
Updated: 8:02 PM The Coalition To Protect All NC Families, the group fighting against Amendment One, released the following statement Tuesday night after the amendment passed.
