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COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — The public is being encouraged to line a procession route through the Indiana hometown of a soldier killed during a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Minutes after hitting the ground in the middle of a battlefield, a tent is popped, an operating table is set up and human blood is rushed off pallets that had been dropped from 1,200 feet.
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As a breast cancer survivor, this New Hampshire woman knows "you get through whatever life throws at you, and you ask for help and be prepared to help others."
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A woman with blood cancer and her family see Monday's solar eclipse as a way to help them move toward their goal of raising $500,000 for myeloma research.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Doc Redman rallied from two holes down with two to play and won the U.S. Amateur on Sunday, beating Doug Ghim on the first extra hole.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 5-year-old has died and his parents were injured in a domestic violence incident at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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KING, N.C. (AP) — State authorities have barred a North Carolina county using a polling site where a candidate also has been banned from the property.
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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — A start-up company is shutting down its North Carolina factory three years after announcing it would employ hundreds building batteries that help power companies save energy or shift to wind and solar power.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — It's been almost 40 years since five people marching through a black neighborhood in Greensboro were killed by Ku Klux Klansmen and Nazis.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After moving to Raleigh in 2013, California native Jenny Hwa immersed herself in the Triangle food scene. While volunteering at Raleigh City Farm downtown and eating at restaurants like Mandolin in North Raleigh and Capital...

The rate of lower body injuries is greater among young athletes who specialize in one sport year-round compared with those with low specialization or who play multiple sports.
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DURHAM — Duke University removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee early Saturday after it was vandalized amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Marcus Mariota threw a touchdown pass and the Tennessee Titans earned a 34-27 preseason win over the Carolina Panthers on Saturday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Solar glasses are a must for safe viewing of Monday's total solar eclipse, the first to span coast to U.S. coast in 99 years.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Mapmakers are proposing new districts for most members of the North Carolina House, a move forced after federal judges ruled state Republicans illegally gave too much emphasis to race in the current version of legislative...

The Latest on growing opposition to Confederate monuments since last weekend's deadly confrontation at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (all times local):
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PLEASANT GARDEN, N.C. (AP) — PLEASANT GARDEN — Gerald Hall's 800 chickens mill around the crowded floor of their metal henhouse, cooing and flapping their wings, as he swings his arm toward a treeline 150 feet to his left. Toward…
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YADKIN COUNTY — A Yadkin County woman is accused of killing her husband in what she claims was an accidental shooting, according to a news release from the Yadkin County Sheriff’s Office.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Erik Jones' timing was perfect for first career pole in the NASCAR Cup Series — at Bristol Motor Speedway, where he's fighting hard for a playoff position.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Ryan Armour shot a career-best 9-under 61 on Friday for a share of the lead with Webb Simpson after two rounds at the Wyndham Championship.
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RALEIGH — A high-ranking North Carolina House member says he's hearing no pressure from fellow Republican legislators to reconsider a 2015 law prohibiting the removal of Confederate monuments from government property.
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Marvin Bagley III, widely considered the top recruit in the class of 2018, reclassified this week and could be eligible to play for Duke in the upcoming season.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The early eclipse weather forecast looks best in the West and least in the East with patchy clouds muddling up the picture in between.
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The North Carolina General Assembly quietly reconvened its work session Friday after a two-week hiatus, preparing for several days of partisan scuffles over redistricting, possible veto overrides and discharges of a chemical into a river.
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The superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant School District in suburban St. Louis has been arrested on charges related to his time at a district he previously led in North Carolina.
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One of North Carolina's most powerful legislators expressed skepticism Thursday about scrapping a 2015 law that gives the General Assembly — not local governments or a state history panel — final say over removing Confederate monuments from public...

North Carolina lawmakers have set the date for the public to comment on anticipated General Assembly district boundaries being redrawn under court orders.
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is suggesting that sanctuary cities contribute to problems with drugs and violent gangs, adding that cracking down on illegal immigrants is his priority.
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U.S. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina says President Donald Trump was "misguided" for blaming both white supremacists and anti-fascist protesters for the deadly weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has reconstituted a committee of current and former teachers and support staff to advise him on public education issues.
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They wash their hands of neo-Nazis and wag their fingers at leftists. They denounce a press corps they see as biased and controversies they view as manufactured. But in the frenzied blame game over the deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists,...

Confederate monuments are being removed around the country under pressure from those who say they honor a regime that enslaved African-Americans. The pace has increased, however, in the wake of last weekend's deadly confrontation at a white nationalist...

A North Carolina town that took a one-two punch last summer from Tropical Storm Julia and Hurricane Matthew can now get financial assistance from the state to pay for cleaning up the first storm.
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North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger is giving up some campaign money because contributions to his political committee from three donors were above the legal limit.
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The funeral for an Indiana soldier killed during a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan will be at the high school from which he graduated six years ago.
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Officials said they would punish perpetrators after a Confederate statue was toppled during a protest expressing sympathy with victims of the violence in Charlottesville.
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The school had been hanging on by a thread for months in the face of tumbling enrollment after the American Bar Association’s accreditors put it on probation in November.
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Not satisfied with the answers Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's administration gave to their questions about a chemical plant's releases into a river, North Carolina Senate Republicans announced Tuesday they're planning to soon hold a public hearing on the...

A man sentenced to life without parole for a murder committed when he was 16-years-old should get a new sentencing hearing because the judge didn't address issues that might have warranted a lesser penalty for a juvenile, North Carolina's Court of...

RALEIGH -- Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina announced today that 97 of the state's 100 counties saw increases in visitor spending in 2016. Visitor spending topped $5 billion in Mecklenburg, $2 billion in Wake and $1 billion in Guilford,...

A North Carolina man is sentenced to 51 months in prison for scamming people out of more than $340,000 they expected to be invested for a quick profit.
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RALEIGH --  State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, through the State and Local Government Finance Division (SLGFD) and with the approval of the North Carolina Council of State, announced the completion of its third refunding of bonds within the last six...

A school district in North Carolina has updated its dress code to ban all clothing that depicts the Confederate flag, swastikas or any Ku Klux Klan related symbols or language.
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Days after clashes in Charlottesville, Va., protesters toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier that had stood in front of the old Durham County Courthouse in North Carolina for nearly a century.
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Officials around the country have removed or considered removing Confederate relics. But in North Carolina on Monday, activists took matters into their own hands.
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An attorney for a North Carolina woman is asking for a new trial or sentencing after she was convicted of killing her husband on a South Carolina beach.
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Authorities say several businesses in a North Carolina city along Interstate 95 have reported receiving counterfeit money that was made to be a movie prop.
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Andre Vann's new book, "Images of America: African Americans of Durham County" is filled with 217 carefully chosen images of black residents and institutions.
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RALEIGH -- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released a detailed proposed design for transforming the state Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs to managed care, as directed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2015....