Gov. Pat McCrory on Thursday began outlining his proposed state budget for the next fiscal year – a plan the governor says is the result of making “tough choices” to produce a “thoughtful” proposal. The budget includes pay raises for starting teachers, corrections officers and state troopers, and it forces some cuts on the state’s university system.
Jan Boxill, the former UNC-Chapel Hill faculty leader who reportedly knew about fake classes at the university and steered athletes to them, has resigned.
The little taste of spring the Triangle enjoyed Wednesday will get pushed aside by another blast of cold air and possibly freezing rain and sleet Thursday.
Nearly 20 years and more than 100 pounds ago, this panhandler in the yellow knit cap, Ryan Hoffman, was a hulking offensive lineman for a North Carolina Tar Heels football team ranked in the top 10, a starting player renowned for his toughness and durability. Now his old Levis are so big that even a belt on its ninth notch can’t keep them from sagging below his hips.
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During the Jonathan Broyhill trial opening statement, prosecutors told jurors their "hearts will break" over what happened to Jamie Hahn. Broyhill, 33, is accused of murdering Jamie Kirk Hahn and attempting to kill her husband Nation.
The Wake County school system reported a sharp drop in the number of student suspensions from the previous year, continuing a trend that has seen suspensions fall 45 percent in the past five years. But Wake reported increases this past school year in the number of reported acts of school crime and in the number of high school dropouts.
Gov. Pat McCrory unveiled his proposed $21.5 billion budget Thursday, describing it as a conservative approach that makes cuts where needed in order to put money where it will have the most impact. The governor tried to keep the spotlight on education, emphasizing that more than $1 billlion will have been spent on teacher pay during his first term in office, if the budget is adopted by the General Assembly. He said 56 percent of the budget would go to education.
Schoolkids, once one of the biggest independent-store chains in the Carolina, has been down to a single store in Raleigh -- until now. The store has expanded into Durham, taking over the recently closed Offbeat Records’ space in Brightleaf Square.
East Carolina University trustees vote to remove the name of Charles Brantley Aycock, governor of North Carolina from 1901-1905, from a dormitory on campus.
In “American Crime,” an apparent home invasion leaves a war veteran dead and his wife seriously injured, but the investigation into the crime creates more questions than answers, and explores questions of race, class and justice.
The state legislature changed the starting point for new budgets, making the cost of increased public school enrollment and higher Medicaid enrollment debatable items.
N.C. Governor Pat McCrory and newly appointed State Budget Director Lee Roberts addressed the media in the Joint Force Headquarters Media Briefing Room in Raleigh, N.C. on Thursday, March 5, 2015. They unveiled the Governor's proposed 2015-2017 Budget for the state.
Pactive plans to add 59 manufacturing jobs at its food service packaging plant in Kinston. The Illinois company stands to receive $150,000 in One North Carolina Fund grants and local matching incentives.
The irony of a year of war with Russia is that Ukraine today is far better prepared to defend itself than it was last March, after Russian troops invaded the Crimean peninsula.
The State Board of Education on Thursday began the process to revoke the charter for Dynamic Community Charter School, the only charter school in the state focused exclusively on students with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Four more people died of complications from the flu in North Carolina last week, according to the weekly update from the state Department of Health and Human Services.
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its iconic elephant acts. The circus’ parent company, Feld Entertainment, told the Associated Press that the acts will be phased out by 2018
