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Basketball-crazed North Carolina has lost its next chance to host NCAA men’s basketball tournament games along with several other championship events due to a state law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people. And the fallout may ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The State Board of Elections on Friday cleared Republican Gov. Pat McCrory’s campaign and a committee that urged voters to approve a $2 billion bond referendum in March of allegations they worked together unlawfully. A board ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina’s two Republican senators have introduced legislation to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority’s proposed ban on houseboats. Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis introduced an amendment Thursday to the Water Resources Development Act of 2016. Burr ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Former Charlotte, North Carolina, Mayor Patrick Cannon is expected to be released from prison next week. Cannon pleaded guilty to public corruption and has been in the Morgantown, West Virginia, Federal Correctional Institution since Nov. 18, ...

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COROLLA, N.C. (AP) — Officials in the northern Outer Banks are considering new rules that could limit the size of homes. The Currituck County Planning Board is getting public feedback on the new rules that would limit new houses to ...

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HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — Crews have found the body of a construction worker who fell off a bridge and never resurfaced from Lake Hickory. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid says the victim was 29-year-old Filigonio Bravo Perez of Midway Park. ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It appears the legal battle over a modern house in a historic Southern neighborhood will end after the North Carolina Supreme Court declined to weigh in. The high court decided earlier this week to deny a ...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton “owes the state of North Carolina a very big apology,” Donald Trump thundered, condemning the loss of manufacturing jobs due to free-trade deals supported by the Democratic presidential nominee. The attack line drew no ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s unemployment rate for July was 4.7 percent, slightly lower than the month before and a percentage point less than the same month a year earlier. This marks the second month in a row that ...

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CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — The Moore County commissioners have rejected an application to build a 28-acre solar farm, the first time they have done so in a county with nine other solar farms. Local news outlets report the commissioners heard ...

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