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ACC predictions, previews, and schedule for all of the Week 13 games

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Down a winding gravel road, past the knotted oak trees and a small but mighty herd of cattle, sits a long red-roofed barn, the permanent home to North Carolina’s newest Thanksgiving celebrities.

She believed in the death penalty and said that in countries where they have it, “I feel safer walking down the street.” Yet in 1978, Ruth Bell Graham befriended North Carolina’s death row inmate Velma Barfield, convicted of murdering seven people, including her own mother. And while there was no…

North Carolina vs NC State game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 13 game on Friday, November 25

Authorities say that two people have died in a helicopter crash near a North Carolina interstate highway

A witness said it looked like the aircraft had swerved to avoid crashing on the busy highway south of Charlotte

Though tech layoffs have become near-daily occurrences nationally, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are seeing an increasing number of job openings in the sector.

If one needed a reminder that time is a flat circle as it relates to college football in North Carolina — that most of the FBS programs in this state go round and round, repeating cycles of disappointment year after year — then, well, Saturday provided one. It was disappointing,…

Republican wins in state supreme court races could not only shape abortion and voting rights, but also the balance of power in Washington.

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments from Harvard and the University of North Carolina about using race and ethnicity in admissions policies. At stake is the fate of affirmative action and the positive effects that race-conscious policies have had on higher education and the workplace for more than 50 years.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The arrest warrant for the 20-year-old man who killed a young girl while towing a float in the Raleigh Christmas Parade faulted the driver for inadequate brakes.