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North Carolina's Supreme Court decided recently that ballots from two categories should have been left out of the tally of an unresolved November election for a seat on the court. But there's still legal friction about the number of ballots that must be scrutinized by election officials tasked with removing them from the count and giving voters the chance to provide information so their race choices can remain.
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Federal officials say two wildfires spreading in western North Carolina have burned more than 2 square miles of wooded area. The larger fire in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness Area near Robbinsville has burned about 800 acres and was 0% contained on Wednesday.
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How much of the VA's budget savings will go to patient care? Collins says it's 'up to the President'VA Secretary Doug Collins is aiming for a 15 percent cut in the agency's budget, even as it's serving a growing population of veterans.
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Commerce and economic leaders in North Carolina say many large companies are in a holding pattern, waiting to make decisions on new factories, or other major investments. And for small businesses, prices on the goods required to make the products they sell could spike.
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The state’s health agency has already ordered the jail to move more than 100 inmates and crack down on illegal behavior. Now, they’re focusing on the shortage of staff.
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Leoneda Inge sits down with Duke professor Dr. Wylin D. Wilson to discuss her new book, Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality and Black Women’s Health.
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Leoneda Inge chats with novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her latest book, set in Henderson County.
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The state House voted Wednesday to add an official state TV show to North Carolina's long list of state symbols. Lawmakers chose "The Andy Griffith Show" for the honor.
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Planners have come up with four options to relieve congestion on Capital Boulevard between Interstate 540 and Wake Forest. Drivers would have to pay tolls on all of them.
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The leadership of the Pauli Murray Center says it's another attempt from the Trump Administration to censor their work.
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Steve Gray said his two acres were forcibly annexed into the city of Greensboro in 2008. He's asking state lawmakers for help.
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Commerce and economic leaders in North Carolina say many large companies are in a holding pattern, waiting to make decisions on new factories, or other major investments. And for small businesses, prices on the goods required to make the products they sell could spike.
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Two doctors describe the role of intuition in medical decision-making as a case study into the mysterious power of this unquantifiable form of knowledge.