Residents of North Carolina are voting on a proposed constitutional ban on gay unions that would make it the 29th US state to limit gay marriage rights.

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US state votes on gay union ban

Cheri Young explained to jurors Monday how she was drawn into a web of deceit to help John Edwards.

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Wife to Edwards Aide to Testify a Second Day

A North Carolina judge concluded that racial bias played a significant factor when Marcus Reymond Robinson was sentenced to death 18 years ago, the first such decision under the Racial Justice Act.

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North Carolina Law Used to Set Aside a Death Sentence

Many Democrats have decided to retire rather than risk defeat in newly configured House districts, leaving the districts in play or solidly Republican.

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North Carolina a Front in Democrats’ Battle for House

Drag racer Matt Hagan has escaped unharmed after his car exploded and burst into flames in Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday.

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VIDEO: Driver survives drag race explosion

Officials will search an area near a North Carolina bar where a missing Fort Bragg soldier was last seen and last used her cell phone four days ago.

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Search on for missing Fort Bragg soldier

Mitt Romney got another expected but key endorsement Wednesday before heading to North Carolina to speak in the city where Democrats will nominate President Barack Obama for a second term later this year.

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Romney gets big endorsement

Jeff Withey of Kansas, a former volleyball player, blocked 10 shots against North Carolina State on Friday, and Sunday he’ll turn his attention to North Carolina 7-footer Tyler Zeller.

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Midwest Region: Kansas’s Jeff Withey Is a Shot-Blocker Supreme

No. 13-seeded Ohio flustered top-ranked North Carolina, but the Tar Heels won their 11th consecutive regional semifinal game, a streak that includes three national championship runs.

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Midwest: North Carolina 73, Ohio 65 (OT): Given Scare by Ohio, North Carolina Wins in Overtime

RALEIGH, N.C. — Maryland ’s unbeaten romp in December did wonders for the young Terrapins’ confidence. But opponents such as Mount St. Mary’s , Radford and Samford hardly foreshadowed the physical front court and intense ball pressure Maryland faced Sunday in its ACC opener at North Carolina State. Too often in Raleigh’s wildly partisan RBC Center, Maryland lost the battle when it came to toughness — whether fighting for rebounds or simply hanging on to the ball. Read full article > >

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Maryland vs. N.C. State: Wolfpack outmuscles Terps, 79-74 in ACC opener

A task force is calculating North Carolina’s obligation to the estimated 7,600 victims of its eugenics program from 1933 to 1977, many of them poor and uneducated.

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Thousands Sterilized, North Carolina Weighs Restitution

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham was admitted to a hospital Wednesday near his home in western North Carolina to be tested for pneumonia after suffering from congestion, a cough and a slight fever, his spokesman said. The 93-year-old evangelist was taken to Mission Hospital in Asheville, spokesman A. Larry Ross said. His personal physician, Dr. Lucian Rice, said he was in stable condition. Read full article > >

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Preacher Billy Graham hospitalized in NC for cough, fever; will be tested for pneumonia

On Saturday, in the wake of his football team’s final humiliation of 2011, a 56-41 loss to North Carolina State in which the Wolfpack outscored his team 42-0 in the last 21 minutes , Maryland Coach Randy Edsall told reporters he was heading out to recruit for a couple of days and would then begin reevaluating his team and his program . Read full article > >

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Randy Edsall should be stopped before he hurts Maryland any worse

North Carolina had the hot hand in the opening half. The top-ranked Tar Heels couldn’t get anything going in the second.

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Top-Ranked Tar Heels Stunned by UNLV, 90-80

8-foot gun taken from North Carolina wreck.

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Blackbeard’s Cannon Salvaged