After nearly seven decades in business, Mary Jo's Cloth Store in Gastonia will permanently close by the end of August, according to a post on the business's Facebook page.

State environmental officials have released the draft of a proposed North Carolina Clean Energy Plan, a requirement of Governor Roy Cooper's executive order on climate change last year. 

Rock Hill School officials are beefing up security and for the first time, all 17 elementary schools will have a full time security officer on campus. Rock Hill’s middle and high schools had police and sheriff security officers but Mike Johnson, the district’s director of safety says they will hire private, armed security officers for the elementary schools. 

COLUMBIA, S.C.  — The South Carolina Attorney General's office has filed a lawsuit against major opioid distribution companies, claiming the businesses are partially responsible for the opioid crisis.

Former NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is in the hospital following a minor plane crash this afternoon. The private aircraft reportedly ran off the runway and caught fire at a municipal airport in Tennessee about 65 miles north of Asheville. Earnhardt’s wife and one-year-old daughter were also aboard the plane at the time of the crash. 

MOCKSVILLE — A North Carolina police department is evicting its pet cat named Sgt. Butters, and some residents are mounting a campaign to bring him back.

RALEIGH — President Donald Trump has nominated a law professor who previously worked as a prosecutor, defense attorney and journalist to fill the nation's longest federal judiciary vacancy.