When lawmakers return to work this week at the General Assembly, it'll be for a short session with lowered expectations.

A police official says three Greensboro officers could be held accountable even though a prosecutor decided not to prosecute them in a sexual assault case.

A university official says the slain student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive the two degrees at this year's commencement ceremony.

The North Carolina Zoo sincerely apologizes, but it will be closed Mother's Day weekend because of a broken water line.

An official says the state-run ferry between Southport and Fort Fisher on the North Carolina coast may close for about two months this winter for repair work on loading ramps.

John William Ingram V has been named the new sheriff of Brunswick County to replace Ronald Hewett, who resigned after he was suspended and charged with embezzlement and obstructing justice.

The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed on the front lawn of a home late last month in coastal Georgia is out of the hospital.

Gov. Mike Easley says it will be several days before officials know what type of government assistance to request for residents of central North Carolina who were hit by a tornado.

Nobody told Allison Browne what to expect when she bought her home in the South French Broad Avenue neighborhood two summers ago.

The 10 a.m. service at Calvary Chapel in Apex is mobbed. People sit in folding chairs at the edges of the aisles, on the floor and in the lobby where they watch the service on a TV feed.

Authorities have identified the couple killed in a small plane crash in North Carolina.

The Davidson County District Attorney said he asked a judge Friday to unseal a search warrant in the fatal shooting of a man who had taken three people hostage.

Law enforcement agencies are searching the mountains on the North Carolina-Tennessee border for a couple that went on a day hike and never returned home.

An attorney who runs one of the state's largest divorce law firms was censured by the North Carolina State Bar for several reasons, including meeting with potential clients only to represent their estranged spouses later, a newspaper reported Friday.

The U.S. Army said Friday it will immediately repair barracks at eight facilities - including Fort Bragg - in the wake of inspection at bases worldwide.

Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor blamed by an angry Iraqi government for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians, is not expected to face criminal charges - all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion-dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats.

The powerful storm system that swept through the Southeast and the mid-Atlantic states late Thursday and into early Friday produced two tornados. In North Carolina, the storm left one person dead, several injured and scores of homes and businesses damaged.

A North Carolina jury has convicted a Brooklyn, N.Y. man of killing a soldier and a 16-year-old girl at a home they shared near Fort Bragg three years ago.

Former presidential candidate John Edwards still hasn't made a Democratic presidential endorsement.

Two people have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a drug ring that spanned several states, including North Carolina and South Carolina.

State education officials have chosen three consultants, including a North Carolina school director, to recommend changes at the Louisiana School for the Deaf following the arrests of five people connected to the school on indecent behavior charges.

The son of American evangelist Billy Graham said Friday he is opposed to missionary work at this summer's Beijing Olympic Games.

One person was killed when his truck overturned west of Greensboro. Authorities think one tornado touched down there and another struck near Clemmons, southwest of Winston-Salem.

Spokeswoman says 1 was killed, 3 injured in what authorities say was tornado in central N.C.