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By Staff Reports | Wed, 05/16/2012 - 4:31pm
Mitt Romney has stretched his lead in the Tar Heel State to eight-points over President Obama, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll taken this week. Polls taken last month showed the two in a virtual tie.
The latest Rasmussen telephone survey of Likely Voters in North Carolina shows the likely Republican nominee earning 51% of the vote to Obama’s 43%.
That’s a sizable swing from Rasmussen's April poll showing Romney with a narrow 46% to 44% lead over the president in North Carolina.›Read More
By Staff Reports | Mon, 05/07/2012 - 4:42pm
RALEIGH, N.C. – Marriage Amendment proponents appear to be ahead in North Carolina, according to current polling by both the conservative-leaning Civitas Institute and the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP).
"Our final marriage amendment poll finds it leading by a 55-39 margin, little change from a week ago when it was ahead 55-41," said PPP's Tom Jensen. "The final yes percentage will likely be somewhere in the 57-59% range depending on how the undecideds break."
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By Staff Reports | Mon, 04/23/2012 - 2:02pm
2011 wound up being one of the worst years for tornadoes in in recent state history. The National Weather Service recorded 63 tornadoes last year, more than twice the state average, with nearly half of those on one day.
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By Staff Reports | Sat, 04/14/2012 - 10:49am
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — It was 9 a.m. on a Monday morning in Hawaii when a young Sgt. Carl Green heard a knock on his hotel room door. He had spent the weekend partying out in town, celebrating his recent departure from the Marine Corps. He had originally planned on re-enlisting, but only if he got selected to become a drill instructor. That didn’t happen so Green decided to head back home to South Carolina and look for work. Before going anywhere, he planned on taking a 20-day vacation in Hawaii.
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By Staff Reports | Fri, 03/30/2012 - 11:39am
 To accommodate the need for additional telephone numbers in the geographic area served by the 919 Area Code, the North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved the addition of the new 984 Area Code to cover the same geographical area as the 919 Area Code.
By Staff Reports | Sat, 03/10/2012 - 3:45pm
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – North Carolina saw a $471 million increase in Department of Defense spending for prime contracts in 2011, a 13 percent jump from 2010, according to a just-released report by the North Carolina Military Business Center.
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By Staff Reports | Tue, 05/01/2012 - 5:41pm
ELON, N.C. -- Two years after the passage of a law that fundamentally restructures the nation’s health care system, more North Carolinians remain sour about the law and believe it will make the health care situation in the United States worse in the long run, according to the latest Elon University Poll.
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By Staff Reports | Sat, 04/14/2012 - 8:14pm
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RALEIGH, N.C. – A months-long shroud of secrecy slipped away late Friday in an unfolding scandal one Democratic Party official in North Carolina says might threaten everything from his party's efforts to defend gay marriage to its chances to hold on to the governor's office this fall.
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By Staff Reports | Fri, 03/30/2012 - 2:40pm
RALEIGH, N.C. – Sky-high unemployment rates continue to rock North Carolina, creating ongoing uncertainty from job markets to retail spending to political campaigns. No fewer than 80 of North Carolina's 100 counties have an unemployment rate in excess of 10 percent, according to figures released last week by the state's Department of Commerce.
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By Staff Reports | Wed, 03/14/2012 - 2:56pm
RALEIGH, N.C. -- After adjusting the December unemployment rate upward to 10.4 percent, January's rate of 10.2 percent almost seems a promising sign.
While some state leaders indeed tried to put a positive face on the figures, for the hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who remain out of work, a rate nearly 2 percent above the 8.3 percent national average remains a frustrating sign.
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By Staff Reports | Tue, 02/28/2012 - 9:46am
MAXTON, N.C. – Twenty-seven people were arrested Saturday on felony charges for involvement in a dog-fighting ring in Robeson County.
N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement agents, along with other state and federal law enforcement officials, executed a search warrant Saturday at the residence of Jimmy Jacobs of Maxton.
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