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Earnhardt Jr. gives 2013 car solid review at test
NASCAR spent almost the entire year developing its 2013 car in hopes the "Gen 6" model will dramatically improve the racing. After his first test ...
Newton, Panthers starting to hit their stride
After struggling to score points and move the chains for much of the season, the Carolina Panthers' offense has suddenly hit its stride. Too bad it's ...
Blighted icon: Volunteers aim to revive chestnut
Jim Hurst has doted on his trees, arranged in three "families" on a bluff high above the rushing French Broad River. He installed a drip irrigation ...
SEC: Inside merger info passed from NC netted $11M
An investment banker at Wells Fargo Securities and his longtime friend passed along insider tips on pending company mergers to friends or family ...
Group gathers mistletoe for holidays on river trip
There's an old southern tradition of shooting mistletoe out of treetops with a .22 rifle, or even a shotgun. Forrest Altman prefers a kinder, gentler ...
NC inmates allege they were abused with hot sauce
Prison officials in North Carolina are calling for a criminal investigation after inmates alleged correctional officers forced them to rub habanero ...
Spectator falls from stands at ACC Championship
A 22-year-old man is in critical condition after sustaining life-threatening injuries after falling about 40 feet off a fourth-floor ramp outside Bank ...
No. 13 Florida St. holds off Georgia Tech 21-15
Florida State has regained its perch atop the Atlantic Coast Conference. Now Jimbo Fisher plans to stay there. The third-year coach talked all season ...
Thousands still flock to NC "Hunger Games" forest
Thousands of people are still coming to visit the western North Carolina forest where the movie "The Hunger Games" was filmed. The Times-News of ...
Duke Energy CEO to leave in NC merger settlement
Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers will step down as head of the largest U.S. electric utility by the end of 2013 as part of a settlement with the North ...
'That 70s Show' star arrested in North Carolina
"That '70s Show" star Lisa Robin Kelly is free on bond after being arrested for assault. Police in the Charlotte, N.C., suburb of Mooresville arrested ...
No. 1 Indiana rolls past No. 14 N Carolina 83-59
No. 1 Indiana had something to prove Tuesday night — that it could play defense. Just two days after the Hoosiers put together their best game this ...
Chizik, among 5 college football coaches fired
Gene Chizik, Frank Spaziani and Danny Hope got the pink slips many expected were coming after disappointing seasons. North Carolina State getting rid ...
NC State fires O'Brien after 6 seasons
North Carolina State coach Tom O'Brien entered the season with hopes of contending for the Atlantic Coast Conference championship. Instead, his ...
Why must we buy? Black Friday's powerful pull
Gravy was still warm. Dallas Cowboys were still in uniform. Thanks were still being given across the country as the pilgrimages to the stores began, ...
US troops in Afghanistan celebrate Thanksgiving
It was Army Sgt. Keith Wells' first Thanksgiving Day away from his family and despite a cornucopia of food provided for the troops, his taste buds ...
Keselowski aside, NASCAR ready to move past 2012
The season hadn't even ended before NASCAR's top executives were previewing 2013, the new "Gen 6" cars and elements of a five-year industry "action ...
Butler holds off ninth-ranked UNC 82-71 in Maui
Maybe North Carolina should have just gone to the beach. Butler is the team to beat in Maui. Rotnei Clarke and Kellen Dunham each scored 17 points ...
US sgt. convicted of hazing in private's suicide
The seventh of eight courts-martial in the case of a soldier allegedly driven to suicide after being hazed has ended with a mixed verdict.
Danica Patrick divorcing husband after 7 years
Danica Patrick and her husband are divorcing after seven years of marriage. Patrick announced the split with Paul Hospenthal on her Facebook page ...
Brad Keselowski ain't your daddy's NASCAR champion
Brad Keselowski chugged his cold Miller Lite, the beer splashing down the side of his face as NASCAR chairman Brian France watched with amusement as ...
Powerful supermajorities elected to statehouses
There's a new superpower growing in the Great Plains and the South, where bulging Republican majorities in state capitols could dramatically cut taxes ...
1960s, '70s hit R&B singer Billy Scott dies in NC
Rhythm and blues singer Billy Scott has died in North Carolina at age 70. Bill Kopald with the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame said Scott died from ...
Freeman, Bucs defeat Panthers 27-21 in OT
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are starting to look and talk like a legitimate playoff contender. The Bucs had to work a little extra to keep their playoff ...