RALEIGH — A judicial panel on Monday ruled that North Carolina Republican legislators can avoid testifying for an upcoming redistricting trial over state legislative maps.

But the three judges also ruled that some of the lawmakers can’t change their minds on seeing that protection now.…

HIGH POINT — Michelle White’s journey in politics to become the new chief of staff for the governor of Nevada started in a set of classrooms in High Point.

White, a Democratic Party political organizer and campaign strategist, was named the top staff member for new Nevada Gov. Steve…

A Greenville man died after he was ejected from his moped early Saturday morning according to a North Carolina Highway Patrol dispatcher. 

The man, identified as Favian Arias, 62, was traveling east on Old River Road near Sandstone Court when he ran off the road to the right, hit a hole on the…

Research by East Carolina athletics director Jon Gilbert and prospective ECU women’s basketball coaches about the Pirates has begun.

Gilbert said Thursday that he doesn’t want to put an exact timeline on a hire, but he has worked toward identifying final candidates. ECU was led by three…

The gem that is Pitt County basketball seems to have limitless facets, casting gleam in every direction at the moment, even on one of the game’s biggest stages.

The Wednesday morning before March Madness begins is an annual day of anticipation that college hoops fans would probably prefer to…

Spencer Brickhouse and Bryant Packard being healthy and in the batting order every day has played a big role in East Carolina baseball’s surge since the start of March.

No hit was bigger Saturday than Brickhouse’s go-ahead, three-run home run to lift the Pirates to a 7-4 comeback…

Star Tribune of Minneapolis 

As the world mourns the loss of 50 lives in the New Zealand mosque shooting, leaders across the globe need to stop and ask a vital question:

What is being done to prevent the next hate-filled extremist from getting swept up in a toxic mix of white supremacy and…

What exactly is it that conservatives conserve? They certainly don't conserve our clean air or water, in their fervent fixation to dismantle all regulations, including the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. So they obviously aren't concerned with conserving our very health.

We are borrowing another…

That special counsel Robert Mueller has not resolved all the issues surrounding President Trump is disappointing many of the president's foes, but it's not surprising. Mueller is an honorable man. He is not a bomb thrower. He always defined his role narrowly. All of Trump's attacks on Mueller…

If it's news to you that social climbers see buying their children's way into fancy, name-brand colleges as the functional equivalent of wearing Rolex watches or driving Maseratis, then I don't know where to start.

That is, those expensive private (and some public) universities are fashion…

I'm writing this in the air, flying home in a Boeing Max 8. They just announced the plane would be taken out of service as soon as we land. I'm not really worried that the plane has some hidden technical defect. I'm worried that the pilot's parents might have been rich enough to bribe his way in to…

With characteristic calmness, 88-year old owner Wilber Shirley is assuring customers of his renowned Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro that the recently-shuttered restaurant will be back in business before long.

His iconic, wood-burning eatery, known for its whole hog barbecue, closed for…

I'm writing this in the air, flying home in a Boeing Max 8. They just announced the plane would be taken out of service as soon as we land. I'm not really worried that the plane has some hidden technical defect. I'm worried that the pilot's parents might have been rich enough to bribe his way in to…

With characteristic calmness, 88-year old owner Wilber Shirley is assuring customers of his renowned Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro that the recently-shuttered restaurant will be back in business before long.

His iconic, wood-burning eatery, known for its whole hog barbecue, closed for…

There comes a time of year when one lets one’s thoughts drift out of classrooms to the sunny shores of spring break. And no place is more synonymous with epic spring breaks than Florida, be it the crunch of calcite shells underfoot, or the sandy curls of George Washington on the beach.…