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An unoccupied, privately owned house in Rodanthe, N.C., just south of Rodanthe Pier, collapsed into the ocean early Tuesday morning, May 28, 2024. (Corinne Saunders/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

A 6th house has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina’s Outer Banks

U.S. National Park Service officials say an unoccupied house has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks after a topping-off ceremony at the newly built Wolfspeed factory in Siler City, N.C., on March 26, 2024. The new factory will soon produce advanced wafers for computer chips. Automaker Vinfast is scheduled to open a factory next year. Both projects stem in large part from incentives that Biden signed into law. Biden has campaigned on how his policies helped pump hundreds of billions of dollars in private and federal investment into companies. But so far, the investments haven’t significantly swayed a public concerned about inflation. (AP Photo/Josh Boak)

In one North Carolina county, it’s ‘growth, growth, growth.’ But will Biden reap the benefit?

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks at the North Carolina GOP Convention in Greensboro, N.C., on Saturday, May 25, 2024. (Woody Marshall/News & Record via AP)

At North Carolina’s GOP convention, governor candidate Robinson energizes Republicans for election

Lara Trump speaks at the North Carolina GOP convention in Greensboro, N.C., Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Lara Trump touts RNC changes and a 2024 presidential victory for Trump in North Carolina

FILE - North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks before President Joe Biden at the Wilmington Convention Center, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Wilmington. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a transportation bill he said would hold back the state's natural beauty. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoes first bill of 2024 legislative session

After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians

Dozens of rural hospitals have closed across America in the past 20 years. The reasons vary widely, but the result is always the same _ a sense of loss and fear. (AP video: Allen Breed)

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Ohio man gets probation after pleading guilty to threatening North Caroilna legislator

An Ohio man has been sentenced to supervised probation after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a North Carolina state senator last year.

North Carolina audit finds misuse of university-issued credit cards

A North Carolina state audit has found problems with a Fayetteville State University office and its school-issued credit cards.

NCAA Division I Baseball Regionals Glance

All Times EDT

Double Elimination; x-if necessary

At Foley Field
Athens, Ga.
Friday, May 31

Game 1 - Georgia (39-15) vs. Army (31-21) 1 p.m.

Man sentenced to 25 years for teaching bomb-making to person targeting authorities

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a North Carolina man to 25 years in prison for teaching someone how to make bombs meant to kill federal law enforcement officers.

North Carolina judge properly considered jurors’ request in murder trial, justices decide

North Carolina’s highest court says a trial judge properly used his discretion in declining to provide testimony transcripts to jurors deliberating in a murder trial.

City’s red-light camera program was lawful after all, North Carolina justices say

A red-light camera program in one North Carolina city has been declared lawful, even though it was discontinued after another appeals court decided it was unconstitutional.

Those who helped file voting fraud allegations are protected from suit, North Carolina justices say

North Carolina’s highest court has thrown out a defamation lawsuit against attorneys who assisted voters in the 2016 election with submitting some ballot complaints.

North Carolina governor heading to Europe for trade trip

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leading a weeklong state trade mission to Europe. The economic development trip starts Friday and will take Cooper, other state officials and representatives of the state’s business recruiting nonprofit organization to France, Germany and Switzerland.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees convenes for a regular meeting at the UNC Center for School Leadership Development in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Thursday, May 16, 2024. The meeting came a few days after the board voted to cut $2.3 million of diversity spending to reallocate toward public safety. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

North Carolina public universities board repeals policy in vote that likely cuts diversity jobs

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s public university system board voted Thursday to repeal a nearly five-year-old diversity, equity and inclusion policy, meaning its 17 schools will likely join other major universities in cutting diversity programs and jobs.

North Carolina attorney general seeks funds to create fetanyl, cold case units

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has laid out priorities that he wants the General Assembly to address this year.

Bill OK’d by North Carolina House panel would end automatic removal of some criminal records

An effort that formally started four years ago to automatically get rid of many more North Carolina criminal court records would stop if legislation approved by a House committee gets enacted.

Rep. Erin Pare, the only Republican who represents part of Wake County, asks the North Carolina House of Representatives not to concur on a bill that would remove a masking health exemption on the House floor in the Legislative Building on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C. The bill, which also enhances penalties for people who wear a mask while committing a crime, will go to a conference committee to negotiate revisions. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

North Carolina House pauses passage of bill that would ban masking for health reasons

The North Carolina House of Representatives has voted not to concur on changes made by the state Senate to remove a pandemic-era health exemption for public masking and enhance penalties for people who wear masks while committing a crime.

FILE - This combo image shows North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, right, speaking in Greensboro, N.C., March 2, 2024, and Democratic North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein, left, speaking in Raleigh, N.C., March 5, 2024. North Carolina has been an underappreciated political battleground recently and not gotten the same attention as nearby Georgia or Florida or the traditional campaign hotbeds of the Rust Belt. That is changing in 2024, in part because of a potentially historic governor’s race that pits North Carolina’s centrist tendencies against the rise of populist conservatism in the era of Donald Trump. (AP Photo/File)

What you should know about North Carolina’s race for governor

North Carolina has been an underappreciated political battleground recently and not gotten the same attention as nearby Georgia or Florida or the traditional campaign hotbeds of the Rust Belt.

FILE - North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally March 2, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. In his bid to become North Carolina's first Black governor, Robinson assails government safety-net spending as a "plantation of welfare and victimhood" that he says has mired generations of Black people in "dependency" and poverty. But the firebrand lieutenant governor's political rise wouldn't have been possible without it. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

GOP candidate for NC governor blasts public spending as his family nonprofit rakes in taxpayer funds

In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that’s mired Black people in “dependency” and poverty.

FILE - Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich speaks at the Moms for Liberty meeting in Philadelphia, June 30, 2023. The conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty plans to spend more than $3 million on a multi-state advertising blitz to increase its membership and engage voters before November. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Moms for Liberty to spend over $3 million targeting presidential swing state voters

The conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty plans to spend more than $3 million on a multi-state advertising blitz to increase its membership and engage voters before November.

Confederate monument to ‘faithful slaves’ must be removed, North Carolina residents’ lawsuit says

A federal lawsuit is seeking the removal of a Confederate monument marked as “in appreciation of our faithful slaves” from outside of a North Carolina county courthouse.

North Carolina court throws out conviction of man with guns inside car on campus

A North Carolina appeals court has thrown out the conviction of a man living in his car for having a gun within his vehicle in a parking lot for a university hospital where he went for emergency medical care.

FILE - North Carolina Sen. Danny Britt, a Robeson County Republican, speaks at the Legislative Building, Feb. 14, 2023, in Raleigh, N.C. Access by the public and the media to North Carolina autopsy reports related to criminal investigations would be significantly restricted under a bill, shepherded by Britt, considered Tuesday, May 21, 2024, by a legislative committee. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum, File)

North Carolina bill seeks to restrict public and media access to criminal autopsy reports

Access to autopsy reports in criminal investigations could become a lot harder to obtain by the public and the media if a new bill passes this session in North Carolina’s General Assembly.

Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, the longtime advocate of Virginia inmate Vince Gilmer (no relation) who is expected to be released from prison later this week, poses outside an Asheville, N.C., restaurant on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sarah Rankin)

Dying ex-doctor serving life for murder may soon be free after a conditional pardon and 2-year wait

Vince Gilmer, the former North Carolina doctor whose murder conviction and medical mystery captured widespread attention after being documented in a popular radio show and a book, is set to be released from a Virginia prison.

FILE - Michael Jones operates his drone, April 2, 2021, in Goldsboro, N.C. A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn't violate the drone photography pilot's constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a state license, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Drone pilot can’t offer mapping without North Carolina surveyor’s license, court says

A federal appeals court says a North Carolina regulatory board didn’t violate a drone pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a surveyor’s license.

The vacant Martin County General Hospital sits abandoned behind a chain since being closed since being closed in August of 2023 in Williamston, N.C., Wednesday, April 10, 2024. After Williamston's only hospital closed, residents there say they're not only worried about their health but they've lost trust in politicians. The struggle to reopen its only emergency room could signal trouble for President Joe Biden's re-election campaign, which is centered around his health care accomplishments. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)

How a North Carolina city’s hospital closure could hint at trouble for Joe Biden’s campaign

After one North Carolina city’s only hospital closed, residents there say they’re not only worried about their health but they’ve lost trust in politicians.

North Carolina sports wagers well over $1 billion in first months under new law, report says

Online sports wagering in North Carolina has exceeded $1 billion since authorized gambling operators could take bets starting March 11.

FILE - This undated photo provided by Robert Brown Public Relations shows Greg Lindberg. (Robert Brown Public Relations/Greg Lindberg via AP, File)

Donor and consultant convicted again of trying to bribe North Carolina’s insurance commissioner

A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the state’s insurance commissioner to secure preferential regulatory treatment for his insurance business.

Rev. Franklin Graham, son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, speaks after unveiling a bronzed sculpture of his father at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Known as America's pastor, Graham died in 2018 at age 99. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The late Rev. Billy Graham is immortalized in a statue unveiled at the US Capitol

A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina.

Simone Hetherington, a speaker during public comment, urges lawmakers not to pass the masking bill during the state Senate Rules Committee in the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Hetherington told lawmakers she is immunocompromised and is concerned how the bill would impact her ability to wear a mask in public. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask wearing, citing crime

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have included masked protesters camped out on college campuses

North Carolina revenue decline means alternate sources for voucher spending considered

Recently lowered revenue projections for North Carolina are making some state legislators think more carefully about how to pay to cover the new high demand for K-12 private school scholarships.

“Raise the Age” juvenile justice reforms altered by North Carolina Senate

More youths accused of serious crimes in North Carolina would be automatically tried in adult court in legislation that advanced through the state Senate.

Opponents of a measure debated by the North Carolina General Assembly that would force local sheriffs to comply with requests by federal agents interested in picking up jail inmates believed to be in the country illegally hold placards against the bill during a rally on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, outside the old Capitol Building in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

North Carolina bill forcing sheriffs to aid immigration agents still under review in House

A North Carolina bill forcing sheriffs and jailers to comply with requests from federal immigration agents to detain inmates accused of serious crimes for up to 48 hours will be sent to a team of negotiators to discuss changes to the legislation.

North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons too

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have proposed a bill that would enhance penalties for people wearing a mask during a crime or intentionally blocking traffic during protests.

This image provided by Jeremy Harwell shows Republican Brad Knott, who is running to represent North Carolina's 13th Congressional District. North Carolina's lone congressional runoff, in the state's 13th Congressional District, became a one-person race when former President Donald Trump endorsed Brad Knott. (Jeremy Harwell/Brad Knott for Congress via AP)

Brad Knott, backed by Trump, wins Republican runoff for North Carolina congressional district

Brad Knott has overwhelmingly won the Republican primary runoff for the 13th Congressional District in North Carolina.