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Starting late last year, North Carolina began issuing drug tests to new applicants for certain state welfare benefits. Now the state is reporting that 24 percent of the first batch of applicants tested came up positive for illegal drugs.

Election politics and race are back at the Supreme Court this spring, as first one, and now two, states fight to get the justices to reverse lower-court decisions that threw out the legislative district lines adopted by state lawmakers, decisions holding that those maps included gerrymandered districts that violate the law.

Over 600 dogs, cats, horses, and pigs were rescued from a filthy and disease-ridden no-kill shelter in what is being reported as one of the largest animal rescues in U.S. history.

In an effort to defy a law requiring voters to present a photo ID in North Carolina, Irving Joyner, North Carolina NAACP Legal Redress Chair, held a press conference Tuesday and said, “We are going out and we are mobilizing people and telling them wherever they are to go to the polls whether you have a picture voter ID or not and demand their right to vote.”

On Christmas Eve, an off-duty officer, working mall security, shot and killed a man who allegedly pointed a gun at him during an altercation inside a Charlotte, North Carolina, mall.

In Elkin, North Carolina, a bench honoring the memory of a 16-month-old boy who died in a hit-and-run car accident was removed from a municipal park because a bible verse and two crosses were engraved on it.

The North Carolina Tar Heels scored to pull within a touchdown and a two-point conversion of the Clemson Tigers, 45-37, with just over a minute remaining in the game. The Tar Heels attempted an onside kick and recovered the ball, only

ABC11 reports that a Raleigh, NC man accused of a violent crime spree yelled, “I am the Anti-Christ” and threatened to put the Empire State building “up in flames.” Twenty-one-year-old Kendrick Keyanti Gregory’s comments came as he appeared before a judge for

Presidential candidate Ben Carson has a 12 point lead over Donald Trump in North Carolina, according to a new poll from Elon University.

Planned Parenthood is getting treated to a fundraiser at an event with a title that is receiving some attention.

Controversial GOP Rep. Renée Ellmers is sending a flyer to her constituents, touting her vote for curbs on late-term abortions, even though she led a group that persuaded the House leadership to yank a pro-life bill from the House floor in January.

Planned Parenthood is retweeting a statement from abortionist Dr. David A. Grimes, who draws a comparison between a healthy unborn human baby and a malignant cancerous breast that requires removal.

Conservative primary challenger Jim Duncan is charging fundraising numbers prove that Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) is “the ultimate Washington, D.C. insider, completely out-of-touch with her North Carolina constituents.”

A North Carolina woman, fiercely defending her right to fly the American flag, may be expelled from a mobile home park for refusing to comply with the park’s demand to remove it.

GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is focusing on the SEC Primary states by announcing his leadership teams across the south, starting with Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

EDEN, N.C. — Police in Eden say they’ve made arrests after a mother allegedly facilitated an inappropriate relationship between her two teenage daughters and a 66-year-old man.

A man accused of murder shocked a courtroom in Wilmington, North Carolina, by openly mocking the victim’s family as they sat watching the proceedings.

MORGANTON, North Carolina — Speaker John Boehner’s worst nightmare is on the rise here in rural North Carolina. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is gaining steam as a clearly coordinated, highly orchestrated effort to remove Boehner as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives—and fix a broken Congress that no longer represents the wishes of the American people—comes into much clearer focus.

While Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis is in jail for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, more than 30 magistrates in North Carolina have legally refused to perform weddings for gay couples.

On Thursday in Roxboro, North Carolina, a mysterious gastrointestinal illness may have been the cause of 668 absences in the school district, including 300 in the high school.

WAKE COUNTY (WTVD) — A Wake County man is facing sexual assault charges involving a 6-year-old girl at a church Tuesday.

When President Obama declared earlier this year that “climate change” represents “an immediate risk to our national security” he was absolutely right: his administration’s crazed faith that renewable energy represents a solution to “climate change” is severely impacting the defensive capabilities of the US military.

A poll by a liberal polling company included an independent candidate named “Deez Nuts” alongside Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a survey of North Carolina voters.

After Winston-Salem, NC, Councilman James Taylor informed FOX8 that some of his constituency claim the “Dixie” in the Dixie Classic Fair’s name offends them, the news station took to the streets to test Taylor’s assertion and found a quite different response.

The Veterans Administration, with a 20-year lease etched into stone, will shell out more than $68 million over 20 years for a Wilmington, North Carolina facility it will not own, renting it instead.

State governors are stepping up to do President Obama’s job for him, lowering their flags to half-mast in honor of the Chattanooga dead.

Police in Gastonia, North Carolina, have arrested 19-year-old Donald Wallace Jr. for allegedly beating a 78-year-old homeless man to a point near death with a cinder block.

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

“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.

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.

North Carolina and South Carolina beachgoers should beware; there has been a rash of shark attacks against beachgoers in their states.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.