A Wendell couple who coordinate an annual Relay for Life event are the target of an embezzlement investigation after staff at the American Cancer Society noticed several accounting problems.

Cyclist Bruce Rosar apparently overlooked a car coming toward him and turned into its path, causing the accident that took his life, Apex police said Tuesday.

Two Camp Lejeune Marines were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday as U.S. forces continued a major offensive through Helmand Province, a Taliban stronghold and the center of the nation's opium trade, which helps finance the insurgency.

N.C. State University's board of trustees has named a committee to investigate the scandal over the hiring of Mary Easley.

The driver of a car that ended up in Bunn Lake early Sunday faces criminal charges after a passenger in the car was found floating in the lake Monday.

The N.C. Turnpike Authority sold $624 million in bonds Monday and Tuesday to complete its financing for the state's first modern toll road. Construction is expected to begin by early August in the center of the Triangle.

Retired educator Lillian Lee has got some pretty prominent backing in her bid to fill the vacancy on the school board.

The State Employees Association of North Carolina plans a protest today outside the corporate offices of Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Nearly 300 Duke employees have grabbed an early retirement offer, the university's first attempt to slash payroll without laying off workers.

The state Department of Transportation is aiming high, with a new list of requests for $4 billion in federal economic recovery funds to create fast and frequent train service between Charlotte and Washington, D.C.

Taxpayers, teachers and local governments are waiting to see how the state budget will hit, hurt or help them.

OWASA treats about 8.5 million gallons of sewage and generates about four dry tons of sludge per day.

Bernard Madoff's new digs at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex aren't as fancy as a New York penthouse, but they'll have to do for the disgraced financier.

The leader of a drug trafficking gang in North Carolina was sentenced to life in prison and fined $5 million.

North Carolina's elected but largely powerless education leader gets her day in court as she tries to force Gov. Beverly Perdue to put her back in charge of running the state's education policy.

Nicole and Arran McWhirter have fought with school district in an expensive legal battle for special education services for their autistic son.

Judges would be allowed to consider whether racial bias played a role in the decision to seek or impose the death penalty, according to a bill on which the N.C. House voted Tuesday evening after a long and emotionally charged

A Green Beret will be awarded the Soldier's Medal for rescuing a comrade trapped in a vehicle that rolled into a canal.

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Pakistan has constructed several fortified bunkers and observation posts along the Indo-Pak border after the 26/11 Mumbai terror strike, the Border Security Force said on Tuesday.