RALEIGH – On Friday, October  5, 2012, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported that a second patient has been diagnosed with meningitis following a spinal injection with the recalled steroid medication linked to a national outbreak. Overall, the Centers for Disease Control has reported 47 cases from seven states nationwide, including five deaths. The national numbers do no ...

The polls have not been kind to Walter Dalton, showing North Carolina’s lieutenant governor generally trailing his Republican opponent, former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, by as many as 15 points (52-37 percent) in the latest Elon University poll Monday in the race for governor. ...

Last Friday, Linda Pearce took the reins of the highest position at UNCW – the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, the second African American to do so and the first African American woman. ...

As the school year begins, North Carolina's rural school districts are struggling to find teachers, particularly in the math and science subject areas. ...

Last May, just before papers were filed with the NC Governor’s Office petitioning for pardons of innocence, Connie Tindall was defiant. ...

RALEIGH - The N.C. Division of Non-Public Education (DPNE) in the Department of Administration recently released its annual home school statistical report for the 2011-12 school year. ...

Produced by the Wilmington Ten Pardon's of Innocence Project, NC NAACP Pres. Rev. Dr. William Barber II talks about why justice must be done for the Wilmington Ten case. ...

Hundreds of citizens from across the nation are now expressing their support for the pardons campaign for the Wilmington Ten; joining congresspeople, state lawmakers and civil rights ...

Thus far, at least two members of Congress; the heads of both the national and state NAACP; a prominent UNC-Chapel Hill law professor, and the head of the United Church of Christ have joined a growing number of supporters ...

Seven survivors and the families of three deceased members of the Wilmington Ten - ten 1970's civil rights activists convicted forty years ago of conspiracy charges to commit violence ...