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Lowe's 1Q falls flat as extended winter cuts into sales

Lowe's, which named a new CEO this week, is reporting weak profit and revenue numbers for its first quarter in which harsh ...

Gay Kentucky man loses bid to challenge GOP clerk Kim Davis

A gay man in eastern Kentucky has lost his bid to challenge Republican county clerk Kim Davis, who went to jail three years ...

David Tepper

NFL unanimously approves Tepper's $2.2b purchase of Panthers

The new owner of the Carolina Panthers is committed to keeping the team in the Carolinas. And Charlotte is clearly his ...

Roger Self

Pastor: Depression preceded fatal crash into restaurant

A North Carolina man accused of crashing a car into a restaurant table full of loved ones, killing two, had suffered for ...

Correction: 2018 Midterms-Endorsements story

In a story May 20 about potential Democratic presidential candidates and their campaign activity in 2018, The Associated ...

Roger Self

Pastor: Mental illness drove man to ram car into his family

A man suffering from severe mental illness left a meal with his family and then drove his sport utility vehicle at high speed ...

Roger Self

Police: Suspect faces 2 murder charges in restaurant plowing

A man intentionally rammed a vehicle into a North Carolina restaurant busy serving Sunday lunch, killing his daughter and ...

Kevin Harvick

Kevin Harvick picks up $1 million check with All-Star win

Nothing can stop Kevin Harvick these days, not an experimental rules package or a field of racers with nothing but pride on ...

Kevin Harvick

The Latest: Harvick beats Suarez to win NASCAR All-Star race

The Latest on the NASCAR All-Star race (all times local): 9:55 p.m. Kevin Harvick continued his dominating season, winning ...

Gay-friendly Apple weighs North Carolina despite LGBT laws

Gay-rights advocates are divided on whether to cheer or bemoan a potential marriage between the state of North Carolina and ...

NASCAR adds quirky plate package to $1 million All-Star race

NASCAR's annual All-Star race is a $1 million winner-take-all spectacle that has failed for years to live up to the hype.

Kim Davis challenger: Man whose marriage license she denied

Shelly Phillips works in an office at the First United Methodist Church in Laramie, Wyoming, and rarely donates to political ...

Doctor accused of keeping human fat in closet back at work

The North Carolina doctor accused of reusing syringes and storing human fat in plastic bags can practice medicine again, even ...

Teachers channel momentum from strikes into midterm races

As they packed up their protest signs and returned to the classroom to finish out the school year, thousands of teachers in ...

Thousands of North Carolina teachers marched. Now what?

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper had just cheered the packed block of red-clad teachers by urging his Republican rivals running ...

North Carolina teachers demand better funding in large march

Thousands of teachers filled the main street of North Carolina's capital Wednesday demanding better pay and more funding for ...

David Tepper

Panthers: Signed agreement to sell NFL team to David Tepper

The Carolina Panthers are off the market. The Panthers announced Wednesday they have signed a "definitive agreement" to sell ...

North Carolina beer distribution law: Brewers' suit bubbling

Craft brewers in a froth over a North Carolina law requiring beer-makers to hand over substantial control of their product ...

OxyContin

6 US states accuse opioid maker Purdue of fueling overdoses

Six U.S. states on Tuesday sued the maker of the opioid OxyContin of using deceptive marketing to boost drug sales that ...

David Tepper

AP sources: Tepper to buy Panthers for record $2.2 billion

The Carolina Panthers are being sold for an NFL-record $2.2 billion. Hedge fund manager David Tepper has agreed to buy the ...