
So many citizens of the Tar Heel state have rushed to order their Confederate flag license plates that the North Carolina DMV has run out of the tags, officials report. Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman Mike Charbonneau reported that in
by Warner Todd Huston8 Jul 2015, 5:07 PM PST0

“Trump’s favorability rating in North Carolina is 55/32, much higher than we were finding in national polls prior to his entry into the race. Trump’s really caught fire with voters on the far right- 66% of ‘very conservative’ voters see him favorably to only 24% with a negative view of him. Trump is polling particularly well with younger voters (29%) and men (20%),” Public Policy Poll (PPP) reported.
by Alex Swoyer8 Jul 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

A series of shark attacks of the coast of North Carolina has elicited concern from local government officials but protests from shark experts of the sharks’ diminishing numbers.
by William Bigelow5 Jul 2015, 7:28 AM PST0

North Carolina and South Carolina beachgoers should beware; there has been a rash of shark attacks against beachgoers in their states.
by William Bigelow28 Jun 2015, 5:23 PM PST0

A 71-year-old man in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, has installed 150 Confederate battle flags around his house, and he’s not about to take them down.
by William Bigelow26 Jun 2015, 7:14 PM PST0

On June 16, North Carolina’s GOP-controlled house sided with Gabby Giffords and voted 78-37 to keep handgun purchasing restrictions in place for law-abiding North Carolinians.
by AWR Hawkins17 Jun 2015, 6:54 PM PST0

One witness was so shocked by a shark attack in the ocean near Oak Island, North Carolina, that she thought it was a movie, and another noted that the creature literally jumped out of the water to bite off a boy’s entire arm with one, swift chomp.
by Warner Todd Huston15 Jun 2015, 8:20 PM PST0

Rep. Rene Ellmers insists she suppoorts trade deals, even if she doesn’t understand them. “I will tell you I’m not sure exactly the process, but the fact of the matter is if we don’t have the trade promotion authority, we literally give up our ability to have that oversight and that final say,” she told a radio interviewer.
by Dr. Susan Berry15 Jun 2015, 5:11 PM PST0

Cruz’s decision to unload on Walker and Rubio might be the beginning of him opening a new aggressive level of campaigning. He’s largely avoided throwing elbows among his fellow 2016 contenders until this point.
by Alex Swoyer8 Jun 2015, 10:47 AM PST0

Just days after Carol Bowne was stabbed to death while waiting for state permission to buy a gun in New Jersey, Gabby Giffords’s gun control group is lobbying to keep a permit-to-purchase law on the books in North Carolina.
by AWR Hawkins7 Jun 2015, 7:15 PM PST0

A grassroots group of education activists in North Carolina has created an alternative to what they call the “failed Common Core standards.” According to team leader Jerry Egolf of the North Carolina Academic Freedom Alliance, the North Carolina Plan is
by Dr. Susan Berry29 Mar 2015, 11:04 AM PST0

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has agreed to pay $335,000 to a former employee to settle a lawsuit she brought against the school after facing what she claimed was retaliation for whistleblowing on lax academic standards for athletes.
by Warner Todd Huston18 Mar 2015, 12:09 AM PST0

The shocking triple murder of three young Muslims in North Carolina may yet turn out to be a hate crime. However, police say the cause was a dispute with the alleged killer over a parking space. A neighbor has said he was an “equal opportunity” hater. And the alleged killer, an atheist with a progressive political bent, had apparently backed the controversial “Ground Zero mosque” on social media when conservatives had opposed it. So the evidence of a hate crime appears weak, thus far.
by Joel B. Pollak14 Feb 2015, 8:57 PM PST0

ADDED: CNN’s Jake Tapper is reporting that a dispute over parking might have had something to do with the murders. Full police report. The police are looking into whether the murders were “hate-motivated” and say that Hicks is cooperating
by John Nolte11 Feb 2015, 6:44 AM PST0

Several books assigned in Wake County, N.C. are coming under fire because they’re too adult for young readers.
by Dr. Susan Berry6 Feb 2015, 5:50 AM PST0