Even though Gottfried was a popular hire and has quickly re-energized the program, there was a sizable faction within the Wolfpack fan base that thought Haith would be an ideal choice to succeed...

RALEIGH -- Florida State needed 39 minutes and 58.9 seconds to make its first 3-pointer of the game, and that first deep ball represented the difference as N.C. State fell 67-64 on a 24-footer in the...

Scott Wood put it like this: When a boy is growing up in Indiana, there are but two things he can do."Either you go to the farm," the N.C. State junior guard said recently, "or you...

N.C. State (15-6, 4-2 ACC) will have to find its offense, and quickly, with No. 19 Virginia (16-3, 3-2), one of the best defensive teams in the country, visiting the RBC Center tonight (8 p.m.,...

Legislative Republicans see a chance to win more Democratic support for GOP bills following Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's decision to not seek a second term.Perdue's work in the past year...

At Raleigh, 8 p.m., ESPN2 N.C. State's problems against North Carolina are well-documented, but Virginia (16-3, 3-2 ACC) has been a thorn in the Wolfpack's side recently as well. Third-year...

Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline had vowed to continue her attacks on Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson "at all costs." Hudson referred the case to Franklin County Superior Court...

RALEIGH A cancer-survivor cat named Cyrano was resting comfortably Friday, with the help of pain meds, after receiving a custom-designed artificial knee during a six-hour surgery Thursday at N.C....

RALEIGH Two months after Gov. Bev Perdue trumpeted a new gambling compact with the state's Cherokee Indians, live blackjack and poker are inching closer to reality at the tribe's Western...

Replanting is one of three options billboard companies have as reimbursement for cutting down trees. They also can remove two billboards anywhere in the state that are not in compliance or reimburse...

RALEIGH Two reports this week of possible men with concealed guns on the campus of N.C. State University stemmed from students playing a game called Humans vs. Zombies that has become a phenomenon on...

RALEIGH -- A new North Carolina state lawmaker has suggested that public hangings should resume in response to a death-row prisoner's description of living the high life while incarcerated.Rep....

Fred Foster, president of the Durham branch of the NAACP, has become the third official unofficial candidate for the county Board of Commissioners. Candidate filing does not open until Feb. 13, but...

WILMINGTON -- A man must stand trial in a plot to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses from his brother's terrorism case, a U.S. judge ruled Friday.After a daylong preliminary hearing,...

RALEIGH -- Two reports this week of possible men with concealed guns on the campus of N.C. State University stemmed from students playing a game called Humans vs. Zombies that has become a phenomenon...

DURHAM -- A 4-year-old accidentally shot himself Friday morning in a home off Guess Road after finding an unsecured firearm, police said.The boy was taken to Duke Hospital, where he was being treated...

On that trip, his wife, Dicky, fell ill and was airlifted back to Raleigh. As she was about to leave Rex Hospital a few days later, she had a stroke. She died in 2010, just shy of their 49th...

RALEIGH -- For the first time in three years, Wake County is crafting a budget without the looming certainty of cuts in programs and personnel, county commissioners learned...

A Houston real estate investment trust has bought the Asbury Village apartments in West Raleigh for $44.2 million, according to Wake County property records.Camden Property Trust bought the 350-unit...

Two members of the General Assembly who voted to approve a billboard industry-promoted bill allowing more trees to be cut around the signs had connections to the...

WASHINGTON -- The lower-than-expected annualized growth rate reported Friday for the final three months of 2011 points to a tepid recovery, but some signs were more encouraging.Most mainstream...

GREENSBORO -- The longest-serving Republican member of Congress in North Carolina history says he's running for another term.U.S. Rep. Howard Coble of Greensboro said Friday that he's up...

Assisted by technology and years of subsidies, the cost of wind and solar power has fallen sharply - so much so that the two industries say they can sometimes deliver cleaner electricity at prices...

HILLSBOROUGH -- Two men charged with killing two friends and robbing a store in rural Orange County this week were on probation.The Orange County Sheriff's Office and State Bureau of...

The N.C. Utilities Commission on Friday approved an overall 7 percent rate increase for Duke Energy's 1.4 million customers in the state, starting next month.The commission largely adopted an...

RALEIGH -- A cancer-survivor cat named Cyrano was resting comfortably Friday, with the help of pain meds, after receiving a custom-designed artificial knee during a six-hour surgery Thursday at N.C....

The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users is expected to file papers any day now to sell stock to the public. The timing stems partly from federal rules that would require Facebook Inc....

Nancy Stanton is "trying to keep" busy between times she can talk with her wounded son, Pfc. Cody Stanton, in Afghanistan, and waiting anxiously to find out where and when she can visit...

Buoyed by about $1 million in new funding, fledgling business software company EvoApp has leased more office space and is extending its technology into a new market.The company has nearly tripled its...

RALEIGH -- Democratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton spent the first full day of his campaign for governor explaining his past as well as his vision for the future.Seven years ago, as a state senator from a...

EMCOR Group, a publicly traded construction and energy infrastructure company based in Connecticut, announced Friday that it has acquired Raleigh-based Southern Industrial Constructors.Terms of the...

RALEIGH -- An employee at a small, North Raleigh hotel was making room checks late Thursday morning when he discovered the body of a 24-year-old guest sprawled face down on the floor with blood...

Colleges that fail to meet affordability standards or do not serve poor students could lose federal financial aid dollars under a plan announced Friday by President Barack Obama. In a speech at the...

North Carolina's Medicaid medical home program saved nearly $1 billion in state and federal spending over four years, largely by reducing hospitalizations and emergency department visits. The...

Raleigh, N.C. - A fatal shooting of a child in Durham Friday brought gun safety into the spotlight, a place Rick Franks says it should stay. Franks has worked for more than a decade at Raleigh's...

Matthews-based Family Dollar recently won a round in a discrimination lawsuit brought by female store managers, but the plaintiffs are attempting to appeal a judge's recent ruling denying them...

Still struggling with stagnant sales-tax revenue, the Charlotte Area Transit System is seeking a fare increase for bus and light rail - its fourth hike since 2008. CATS is proposing to raise the...

"If you can't stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down," President Barack Obama said Friday at the University of Michigan. Bill...

The search for a burglary suspect led to a police chase and crash Friday in Gaston County. Gaston County police said they were helping the York County Sheriff's Office find 53-year-old Sam...

RALEIGH - A new North Carolina state lawmaker has suggested that public hangings should resume in response to a death-row prisoner's description of living the high life while incarcerated. Rep....

The report from a task force examining how to compensate thousands of North Carolinians who were sterilized against their will under a state program was delivered to Gov. Bev Perdue on Friday. The...

RALEIGH -- PFC Cody Stanton's mother said in a slightly quavering voice that she is "trying to keep" busy between times she can talk with her wounded son in Afghanistan and while she...

The N.C. Utilities Commission this afternoon approved an overall 7 percent rate increase for Duke Energy's 1.8 million customers in the state, effective next month. The commission largely...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A jury has convicted a New York prison inmate of falsely filing tax returns seeking $890 million in refunds.Prosecutors say the man filed the bogus returns from 2006 to 2010 while...

"It's two weeks from the filing and people had no expectations that they would be looking for a candidate for governor," Dennis Wicker, the lieutenant governor from 1993 to 2001, said...

Robbins, N.C. - A 9-year-old Moore County boy who spent more than two weeks in a coma and suffered two broken ribs and a fractured neck, pelvis and ankle is recovering at home, nearly three months...

Matthews-based Family Dollar recently won a round in a discrimination lawsuit brought by female store managers, but the plaintiffs are attempting to appeal a judge's recent ruling denying them...

The N.C. Utilities Commission today approved an overall 7 percent rate increase for Duke Energy's 1.4 million customers in the state, starting next month. The commission largely adopted an...

More than two weeks after his daughter was accosted in a dark outside corridor, a frustrated father has gotten the lights turned on at North Mecklenburg High. It required nagging a school board...

Authorities are offering a reward for information about the killing of a 32-year-old man whose body was discovered a month ago in a remote, wooded area of Caldwell County. Jason Matthew Carter was...