A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her.

Authorities say they are looking for a North Carolina man who shot his girlfriend at his parents’ home after police were called to break up an argument.

Authorities say a 37-year-old Virginia man is dead and two other people injured in a shooting outside a North Carolina nightclub.

North Carolina police say a real estate developer known as an active member of his church shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their Fayetteville home.

A man suspected in the fatal shootings of four men at a North Carolina television shop has been captured in Virginia.

Federal grand jurors in Pierre have indicted a 32-year-old Mount Airy, N.C., man on charges he received $40,000 for gold bars that didn’t exist.

20 Marines, or sons of Marines were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer and they blame their time at Camp Lejeune, where records show drinking water was contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals for three decades.

Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy’s restaurant.

The South Carolina chapters of the NAACP say their boycott is having an affect on South Carolina’s economy.  Last month, leaders of the mostly black Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) voted to move its 2010 convention from South Carolina after the NAACP reminded them of the boycott. The denomination has about 700,000 members, mainly in the Midwest and central United States.

A man who was obsessed with the Columbine High School massacre was found guilty of murder Friday and sentenced to life without parole for gunning down his father before opening fire at a North Carolina high school three years ago.

Most places have a neighborhood watch, but this takes it to another level: a Durham, North Carolina intersection is getting a lot of attention after signs popped up threatening speeders with the message, “Speed limit enforced by angry neighbors with paintball guns.“

The case of a puppy that used to have five legs and was saved from a Coney Island animal show is going before a court TV judge in Chicago.

A federal judge in North Carolina has ordered six terrorism suspects detained until trial, saying each is a flight risk and a danger.

Federal authorities say the accused ringleader of a group of North Carolina terrorism suspects talked of loving jihad, fighting for Allah and despising a U.S. military presence at Muslim holy sites.

Federal authorities are searching for an eighth alleged member of a North Carolina group that authorities say plotted “violent jihad” overseas.