A man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds drove himself to Duke Hospital early this morning, Durham police reported.

Federal authorities are looking at a land deal in Carteret County in which former Gov. Mike Easley has purchased a lot, according to the company that marketed the property.

The state legislature moves to prevent the complete disappearance of piers from the coastline, voting unanimously to build the N.C. Aquarium Pier at Nags Head.

Leslie Boyd is certain her 33-year-old son died of colon cancer because the high cost of medical care kept him from getting diagnosed and treated.

A single-vehicle wreck seriously injured the driver on Cheek Road, Durham police reported Saturday morning.

With a 62-cent federal tax hike on tobacco products that went into effect this month, many smokers must now surrender their addictions to their pocketbooks.

Drescher:The people have spoken: You like us. You really like us.

After several months of jobs hemorrhaging at a dizzying rate, the state's unemployment figure for March looks deceptively comforting.

Troubleshooter:For nearly a decade, the building at 618 N. Person St. near downtown Raleigh has been condemned and boarded up with plywood by the city.

Saunders:Now that the Obama administration has relaxed the rules for Cuban-Americans who wish to visit relatives in Cuba, and some of us are champing at the bit for the opportunity to chomp down legally on Cuban cigars, the question becomes: Who or what is family?

The first Butch and Tammy Davis Tailgate Golf Tournament to benefit SECU Family House at UNC Hospitals will take place April 24 at UNC's Finley Golf Course.

Fueled by donations from labor and business groups, freshman Rep. Larry Kissell raised more money than all but one of North Carolina's U.S. House members during the first three months of the year.

A residents advisory board plans to ask Orange County to form a task force to study the disposal of sewage sludge.

You have a great opportunity to help the Triangle's hungry today, thanks to the Feed the Need program.

A week after its guest speaker was chased away by student protesters, a UNC-Chapel Hill student group plans to bring another controversial speaker to campus.

A wave of federal transportation stimulus money is heading to the Triangle, where millions of dollars will be spent in the next eight months on local projects.

Political action committees representing business interests contributed nearly half of U.S. Sen. Richard Burr's $700,000 campaign take in the first three months of this year.

Three inmates who escaped from the Edgecombe County Detention Center on Thursday just before midnight were arrested Friday in West Virginia after a bank robbery there, according to the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office.

Triangle Politics:At least one Wake County school board member is willing to put his seat on the line during this fall's election campaign.

Brian Holder, of Boy Scout Troop 349, is being awarded the badge of Eagle Scout, the highest achievement in Boy Scouting, today.

By Friday afternoon, Superior Court Judge Carl Fox had had enough.

People at the state Department of Transportation can be forgiven if, like doting parents, they keep showing off photos of their proud creations.

Former Gov. Mike Easley, who rarely rubbed elbows with the state legislature's rank and file during two terms in office, may be joining a law firm that also does lobbying.

The two former Domino's Pizza employees alleged to have produced a YouTube video showing them tampering with pizza and sandwiches made their first appearances in a Catawba County courtroom Friday.

Federal regulators Friday granted Gov. Bev Perdue's eleventh-hour motion to intervene in the renewal of Alcoa's hydroelectric license for the Yadkin River.

A 7-month-old boy is in good condition after being hit by a baseball at a Durham Bulls game Thursday evening.

Clement Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud who became a well-known writer, politician and urbane regular on British radio, has died. He was 84.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police has completed its investigation of a fatal wreck involving a CMPD officer last month and has turned over its findings to the District Attorney's office, police said Friday morning.

NAACP presidents from Wilson, Rocky Mount and Edgecombe County, along with several area elected officials, are calling on Gov. Bev Perdue to appoint an African-American to the post of district attorney for the Seventh Judicial District.

Court papers filed Friday in the dispute between Charlotte's United Way and its ex-CEO show the agency has been arguing in recent months with Gloria Pace King over “large and questionable expenses” and her right to keep a leased car.

Carl Camras, a renowned glaucoma researcher, has died.

Richard "Dick" Baker, the former wave rider who reinvented Southern California's iconic Ocean Pacific surf brand in the 1990s and in doing so helped spread surfing fashion styles around the world, has died. He was 62.