It's one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, and tourism officials in North Carolina are hoping fans will visit some of the sites where scenes from "The Hunger Games" were filmed.
Executive and legislative branches in North Carolina have clashed for years over the balance between the governor's authority to manage state government and the requirement that the General Assembly's laws get carried out.
North Carolina transportation officials say they will review the agency's policy on naming state owned bridges after a Board of Transportation committee refused to name a bridge in Asheville after a firefighter who died while fighting a blaze.
A 24-year-old soldier who fatally stabbed a paratrooper from Virginia while horsing around in a tent in Iraq has been sentenced to nine months in prison, demoted to private and given a bad conduct discharge.
The lawmakers have introduced a bill "No Tolls in North Carolina Act of 2012" to prevent the Federal Highway Administration from approving a pilot program that would add tolls in order to pay for its expansion.
The Legislature's leading staff attorney on constitutional matters says Gov. Beverly Perdue had no legal authority to issue a one-year moratorium on new and increasing tolls for North Carolina's ferry system.
North Carolina's primary is May 8th, and could see quite a few voters turn out, not just for the presidential race, but also for governor and the amendment defining marriage between one man and one woman.
Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs Jr. of New Bern filed requests Wednesday seeking dismissal of charges stemming from more than $28,000 paid for chartered flights not reported as contributions by Perdue's 2008 campaign.
A decorated Special Forces soldier and his two young daughters are dead after he tried to rescue them from their burning home near a North Carolina Army post.
A Wake County jury has found a Raleigh man guilty of beating his pregnant wife to death in 2006 and then establishing an elaborate alibi to cover his tracks.
A spokeswoman for the State Bureau of Investigation said Monday that inmate Jason Todd Richardson was charged last month with voluntary manslaughter in Griffin's death.
Authorities have identified a Michigan man whose company has strong ties to the racing business and a woman traveling with him as the victims of a plane crash at High Rock Lake.
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Eagles ruled Thursday in Greensboro jury selection will begin April 12th for the federal trial about John Edwards' alleged misuse of campaign funds. A planned January start was delayed while Edwards was treated for a heart condition.
