A CDC agency is researching the effects of chemical contamination of water at the base from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Charlotte's Democratic mayor says he isn't running for North Carolina governor. U.S. Representative Heath Shuler also says he's not running.

McCrory formally began his second campaign for governor Tuesday evening with several hundred supporters in Guilford County, where he spent much of his childhood.

A Carteret County man was arrested Monday after turning himself into authorities. He is accused of secret peeping and another charge that suggests his target was a minor.

The father of a 10-year-old disabled girl who was murdered by her stepmother in western North Carolina has been deported to his native Australia.

Seven people were arrested as officers broke up the Occupy Charlotte tent city, across the street from police headquarters.

A judge ruled a hearing involving a killer who's the first on North Carolina's death row to use a new law to try to prove that race played a role in his sentence continue as scheduled.

A 10-year plan to find homes for the chronically homeless in North Carolina's largest city is gaining momentum.

A judge is considering whether North Carolina can keep a convicted killer on death row after nearly two decades.

A North Carolina judge has delayed a hearing on whether a former aide to John Edwards should be held in criminal contempt.

Four people have been arrested on charges of felony robbery with a dangerous weapon and are now in the Pitt County Detention Center under a $1 million dollar bond each. Court documents show they are charged with several of of the armed robberies at area fast food restaurants.

The cause of a security alert at the North Carolina State University campus turns out to have been a live-action roleplaying game involving zombies.

Authorities say a boy died in an accidental electrocution in a wooded area in Durham.

The Navy is investigating the death of a diver participating in an amphibious training exercise in waters off Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

North Carolina Catholics are being asked to vote for the constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue calls her decision not to seek re-election this year the "most selfless decision that I've ever made."

North Carolina Democrats are gathering for one of their seasonal dinners and fundraisers at a time of party upheaval after Gov. Beverly Perdue announced she wouldn't seek a second term.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission announced the 7.2 percent rate increase approval on Friday. The Charlotte-based utility said a typical bill for a residential customer will increase by about $7 per month.

Dalton said in an interview Friday he's not thrilled with raising taxes but said Perdue's suggestion of a three-quarter-cent increase is one way to solve the problem.

53 mayors across the state support Perdue's push to restore the three-quarters of a cent sales tax the republican-controlled legislature recently eliminated.

Democratic state Rep. Bill Faison announced his bid for North Carolina governor on Saturday, saying he's the best candidate to restore education and health care jobs through his work in the Legislature and when he reaches the Executive Mansion next January.

The decision by Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton to run for North Carolina governor means some Democrats are considering a bid to become the party's nominee for the No. 2 job in the executive branch.

A bail bondsman had to bail himself out of jail, after he was charged as an accessory in a robbery case in the east.

A Raleigh man accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a terrorism case in our state will make his first appearance Friday in federal court.

US Airways Group Inc. says it has a tentative agreement with negotiators for the union representing 6,700 flight attendants across its main network.