RALEIGH (WPTF) -- The defending NCAA men’s basketball champion North Carolina Tar Heels begin their tenuous defense of the crown tonight with 7 p.m. match-up against Georgia Tech.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Gov. Beverly Perdue says an inspector has been sent to Robeson County in southern North Carolina after her Facebook fan page was flooded with messages from animal rights activists urging her to investigate claims of abuse at an animal shelter there.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The student newspaper at North Carolina State University is having trouble finding an editor.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The eldest son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said in a North Carolina political appearance he doesn't expect his father to make a run for president in 2012.
(AP)--Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded. Haim died Wednesday at 38, another chapter in Hollywood's tragic history of careers ravaged by drugs.
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