Brad Cooper may have no visits – physical or virtual – with his daughters so long as he remains incarcerated for the murder of his wife, Nancy, a Wake County District Court judge has ruled.

Tim Donnelly, Apex public works director noted in an internal memo, "The bridge negatively impacts our citizens and clearly the traffic flow and safety of N.C. 55."

Raleigh's Charles Meeker is pitching a plan that would expand bus routes and add light rail to ease travel among the county's 12 communities. Some of his peers are not convinced commuters would use it.

Dr. Mark David La Branche has experience in bringing a school from financial struggles to success.

Temperatures could reach a record low Friday night in the hours leading up to what is expected to be the coldest Raleigh Christmas Parade in nearly 30 years, WRAL Meteorologist Mike Maze said.

Student leaders have decided to turn students into models by putting them on cards that suggest how to dress. The cards will be distributed around campus after winter break.

The transition to Governor-elect Beverly Perdue's administration means new management teams will likely be installed at various state agencies, making the 595 exempt state employees who serve at the pleasure of the governor vulnerable to losing their jobs.

More than two decades later, Jack Watts said, he still remembers every grisly detail of Spc. Ronald Gray's string of murders in Fayetteville.

The wife of a Fort Bragg paratrooper said Friday that she remains in shock over the child abuse case that has taken her children away from her and put her husband in jail.

UNC students are mobilizing to protect a campus symbol from vandalism before the school's annual football game against rival N.C. State.

Gary Khera said he just wanted to give. Union Mission employees cited a policy against headwear indoors.

A new report says the budget shortfall in North Carolina state government has grown as personal income and sales taxes track below what lawmakers planned on getting.

North Carolina employers added a net 4,100 jobs in October but unemployment number reaches all-time high of nearly 319,000. Jobless rate is highest since January 2002. Holiday hiring picture, meanwhile, is mixed.

A conversation with the father of one of the victims in the case prompted Superior Court Judge Carl Fox to cut eight to 14 years off Michael Lewis' original sentence.

Homeowners and renters in Johnston, Franklin, Harnett, Nash, Sampson, Wake, Wayne and Wilson counties can apply for up to $200,000 to fund repairs to storm-damaged properties. Businesses and non-profit organizations may borrow up to $2 million to replace or repair property or equipment.

Despite a dramatic drop in the price of gasoline in recent weeks, fewer North Carolina residents are planning to travel on the road or by airplane this Thanksgiving, according to AAA Carolinas.

After morning snow showers from Person County to Fayetteville, cold winds rushed in and prompted a burning ban for central North Carolina. Short bursts of snow are possible throughout the day.

Officer Jill Tyson-Johnson was trying to make an arrest near 2045 Woodruff Road Thursday night when a car hit her and then her cruiser, police said.

The struggling economy won't affect the completion of Terminal 2, but could delay renovations to Terminal 1 by at least two years, airport officials said.

Anson County deputies found a 2004 Saturn believed to have been used to flee a Cary home where a woman was killed two months ago.