North Carolina

This year, the state spent over $432 million helping about 80,000 students attend private schools. That’s nearly $250 million more than it spent last year, and more than twice the number of recipients.

North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in to a new term on Tuesday after the Democrat won a months-long fight against her Republican rival’s challenges to thousands of ballots.

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be the second man executed by firing squad in South Carolina. Mahdi also pled guilty to murder in Winston-Salem, where he was represented by Wake Forest Law professor Mark Rabil, who opposes the death penalty for Mahdi.

Former president Donald Trump is putting considerable time into North Carolina, which last backed a Democrat for president in 2008. His hope for victory is significantly more complicated if he were to the fast-growing state that gave Trump his smallest margin of victory over Democrat Joe Biden four years ago.

The father of a teenager accused in a 2022 mass shooting in North Carolina's capital city that left five people dead has pleaded guilty to storing improperly a handgun that authorities said was found with his son after the shootings. Media outlets report Alan Thompson entered the plea in Wake County court. He received a suspended jail sentence and some probation. Son Austin Thompson is accused of murder and other charges and faces a 2025 trial. He was 15 when the shootings occurred in Raleigh. His older brother was among those killed. The father's attorney said Alan Thompson saw no warning signs that his son would commit violence.

This story originally aired on “Marketplace” on Aug. 26. Congress has authorized trillions of dollars in new spending through the Inflation Reduction Act,…

Tropical Storm Debby has made a second landfall in South Carolina on its way up the East Coast, where residents as far north as Vermont could get several…

North Carolina law enforcement officials are investigating the potential improper use of state vehicles by North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell. That's according to Raleigh television station WRAL, citing a local prosecutor and records.

Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled recently that Republican-led legislatures had…

Red Wine & Blue is a national nonpartisan group aimed at mobilizing suburban women around various issues. That includes "Troublemaker Trainings" on how to…