NC Department of Public Safety

North Carolina received $3.5 million in federal Victim of Crime Act funds. It's a far cry from it's peak of more than $100 million just a few years ago, and it comes as the violent crime rate in many of North Carolina’s rural areas is on the rise.

Local and state officials are preparing for heavy rain across North Carolina this weekend from the remnants of Hurricane Ian. State officials are deciding…

The 2010 New York Times best-seller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, examines racial injustice…