First District Democrat Congressman G.K. Butterfield filed fro re-election Monday.

Monday was the first day candidates could file for the May primary and election offices were busy all across the east.

The state Supreme Court will hear arguments involving a student at an alternative school in Brunswick County who had to untuck her shirt and pull out her bra with her thumb as part of a search for pills.

The first evidentiary hearing involving the state's Racial Justice Act is scheduled to continue this week in a Cumberland County courtroom, where prosecutors plan to call four more current or former judges to testify.

Some Greenpeace protesters have climbed a smokestack that towers over a power plant near Asheville.

The state Supreme Court is scheduled Monday to hear Robert Talford's argument that his hospital should have to prove why it's reasonable to charge him up to 24 times more than a local pharmacy for medications.

State Sen. Eric Mansfield of Fayetteville says he's running for lieutenant governor, saying he believes bickering in the Legislature has prevented North Carolina from moving forward.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is hosting a series of workshops around the state to encourage girls in school to think about careers as engineers.

A former North Carolina resident has pleaded guilty to federal charges in a money laundering conspiracy connected to a $32.5 million Ponzi scheme.

Powerball players in North Carolina are taking aim at a record jackpot.

The bus that caught fire in Charlotte Wednesday was a Thomas built bus. That's the same brand as other buses that have gone up in flames in North Carolina over the past couple of years.

Take a look at this! A NC bus catches fire, a purple squirrel, and a red velvet cupcake with a little something extra.

A lawyer for John Edwards is defending his campaign's 2011 spending, saying the expenses were related to last year's criminal probe.

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has voted to increase tuition across the system of 16 university campuses by nearly 9 percent on average.

Students from schools in the University of North Carolina system are scheduled to rally against tuition increases that the Board of Governors is set to consider.

A New York City murder suspect arrested after turning up on a jumbo screen at Charlotte Bobcats Arena is facing new charges: helping lead a 37-person check fraud ring accused of stealing more than $150,000.

A woman from Raleigh, North Carolina who snatched a newborn baby from a New York City hospital in 1987, then raised the child as her own for more than two decades, pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge Friday.

Federal regulators say they need more time deciding whether to stick with federal standards that could mean $12 million in rebates for more than 58,000 North Carolina residents who buy their own health insurance.

If a leading candidate fails to get more than 40 percent of the vote in a North Carolina primary election race this May, when is the runoff?

Some residents in Burlington are complaining to the city about what they say is a church making some not-so-joyful noise.

In part one of Cassandra Bell's three part Black History Month series we take an inside look at the Rosenwald Project in eastern north carolina.

A Halifax man is behind bars Wednesday morning after he was arrested for attempting to sell almost 50 stolen samurai swords, according to the Roanoke Rapids Daily.

More than half of the candidates expected on North Carolina's presidential primary ballots in May come from the Libertarian Party.

Three more Democrats have announced they aren't seeking re-election to the General Assembly this year, including two drawn into districts with incumbent Republican lawmakers.

A Belmont, North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with stabbing his girlfriend over the taste of a steak dinner.