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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A former loan officer at a South Carolina mortgage company has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to repay nearly $5 million stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme. The Post and Courier ...

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MIAMI (AP) — Lennar Corp. (LEN) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $144.1 million. The Miami-based company said it had profit of 63 cents per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts ...

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BOONE, N.C. (AP) — The company that owned a Boone hotel where three people died of carbon monoxide poisoning will be dissolved under a plea deal struck Monday that drops criminal charges against one of its executives. Appalachian Hospitality Management ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two transgender people and a lesbian law school professor filed a federal lawsuit Monday to challenge a new North Carolina law that blocks local governments from passing anti-discrimination rules and requiring transgender students to use bathrooms assigned ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Corporations expressed disappointment and the NCAA vowed to monitor what North Carolina does next now that the state has banned any local government measures protecting people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Four communities in the Carolinas, including three on South Carolina’s 190-mile coast, remain among the 20 fastest-growing in the United States, according to new numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina legislators decided to rein in local governments by approving a bill that prevents cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination rules. Gov. Pat McCrory later signed the legislation, which dealt a blow to the ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly will reconvene Wednesday to take up legislation that would attempt to override Charlotte’s nondiscrimination ordinance, which also addresses transgender people and restrooms, legislative leaders announced Monday night. Social conservatives and many Republican ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory has told the Coal Ash Management Commission that it no longer exists. Multiple media outlets report that McCrory’s chief attorney has written Commission Chairman Michael Jacobs to tell him the group has been ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from the vote he cast almost two years ago after he was sentenced to prison in a bribery scandal. Local media outlets report ...