A North Carolina “boomtown” now ranks as the safest place to live in the state. The Raleigh suburb of Apex is No. 1 on a list ...

World's losses included such notables as Alexey Navalny, Maggie Smith, James Earl Jones, Bela Karolyi and Bob Newhart ...

Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Jimmy Carter, U.S. congresswoman ...

Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

Duke will replace some coal generation with gas-fired power plants at two NC sites. Duke says the switch is necessary to ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's latest Democratic governor was sworn into office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper in a top elected position for the second time ...

Two North Carolina men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a series of armed robberies targeting ...