A federal prosecutor suggested a suspended sheriff in South Carolina has tried to intimidate former deputies from cooperating with investigators that continue to look into corruption charges.

North Carolina's attorney general has been granted a temporary restraining order to prevent a Florida-based payday lender from doing business in the state.

The chief executive of the community-owned cable and internet system in the Lake Norman area has passed away. David Auger died Friday, May 17.

Jim Burch was the first black man to officiate a basketball game in the Atlantic Coast Conference, but one of the men he taught to follow in his footsteps said Burch didn't make much out of the achievement.

"Everybody else talked about that. He just shared his story and his journey," ACC referee Jamie Luckie said in an interview on Monday. "He talked about sitting in the colored section of Reynolds Coliseum watching games, telling his friends that he was going to be on that court someday. They said he was crazy, and sure enough, he was on that court one day. But he never talked about himself being a pioneer."