After two years of losses, Clinton-based Coharie and three smaller North Carolina pork producers recently declared bankruptcy, causing scores of grain and hog farmers to lose once-stable contracts to raise hogs.
Modified: 11/20/09 05:29:45 AM
The chairman of the Wake County Republican Party is challenging Clay Aiken's right to vote in the recent school board election, one week after the pop singer called the victorious GOP candidates " selfish idiots."
Modified: 11/20/09 09:04:14 PM
Four patients at Duke University Medical Center have contracted a mutated strain of the H1N1 virus.
Modified: 11/20/09 03:17:53 PM
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.
Modified: 11/20/09 11:00:33 PM
The increase returns the state to the same unemployment rate it had in June.
Modified: 11/20/09 10:25:28 AM
Medical technology company Viztek, which moved its headquarters from Florida to Garner in August, expects to hire about 20 employees next year.
Modified: 11/20/09 12:30:48 PM
A man found dead in a mobile home off the Apex Peakway late Thursday died of natural causes, police said this afternoon.
Modified: 11/20/09 03:28:48 PM
Sarah Palin kicked off her book tour in Michigan this week, and thousands gathered outside a Barnes & Noble chanting her name, giving the event the feel of a political pep rally. The Army wants Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg on Monday to be much quieter.
Modified: 11/20/09 05:24:04 AM
Gov. Beverly Perdue says officials never doled out credits for good behavior to those sentenced to life in the 1970s.
Modified: 11/20/09 05:10:13 AM
A panel may decide a doctor overstepped his bounds when he told a patient she was irresponsible -- and fat.
Modified: 11/20/09 04:26:54 PM
Four female inmates have filed a federal class-action lawsuit accusing North Carolina prison officials of subjecting female prisoners to extensive sexual violence.
Modified: 11/20/09 05:36:25 AM
Wake County students and teachers dealing with overcrowded classrooms and fewer courses aren't going to get relief next year and could actually experience even worse conditions.
Modified: 11/19/09 10:36:32 PM
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Wake County children can get H1N1 flu vaccine Saturday at three different sites.
Wake GOP Chairman challenges Clay Aiken vote
Four patients at Duke University Medical Center have contracted a mutated strain of the H1N1 virus.
Watershed petition may go to court
Collapsing floor injures firefighter
Orange County school board member Ted Triebel won't serve any jail time after being convicted of driving while impaired after his single-car crash a year ago.
Heavy rain causes Carrboro sewer spill
Johnston County public health officials will hold a walk-in flu shot clinic from 2 to 7 p.m. today, offering both seasonal and H1N1 vaccine to children from 6 months old to 18 years old.
Archer Lodge community will become a town
Durham County Attorney Lowell Siler said Thursday that the validity of a protest petition and the county commissioners' Oct.12 vote on the Jordan Lake watershed boundary must be decided in Superior Court.
Jordan Lake petition ruled valid
Chatham meetings to discuss Cary development
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