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Papa Jake Larson joined the US National Guard at 15 years old.

Construction workers inside a huge industrial tunnel in Los Angeles made it to safety after a portion of it collapsed Wednesday evening, an outcome officials called a blessing.

Italy's Jannik Sinner defeated defending champion Carlos Alcaraz to win his first Wimbledon title. Sinner is the first Italian to win the tournament.

The pardon comes in the last weeks of President Biden's time in office and despite his public assurances in the past that he would neither pardon nor commute his son's sentence.

One day after losing three contests to former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney traveled to Atlanta for a campaign event. Georgia holds its primary on March 6, which is Super Tuesday. And the state would seem to have built-in advantages for another of Romney's rivals. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is from Georgia.

Ryan Routh, who is accused in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on his golf course last year, called three witnesses and rested his defense after only a few hours of testimony on Monday.

The governor announced the projects in Marshall as part of a state program to prevent flooding across the state.

Across the country, anti-Trump statues having been mysteriously appearing. Anonymous, guerilla art has a long history of mixing with politics.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has released its annual Civil Right Report. It details record-high instances of anti-Muslim hate in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Millions of Americans are under weather advisories today as a winter storm blasts through the middle of the country.

The influential US Preventive Services Task Force urged behavioral counseling for children and teens with very high BMI. Notably the group did not include Ozempic-like drugs in the recommendation.

Actress Lisa Loring, best known for her role as Wednesday on the first run of The Addams Family, died on Saturday. Loring semi-retired from acting in the mid-1990s.

The Union County school board’s decision to bring middle and high school students back for in-person classes five days a week is getting resistance from teachers, parents and students.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will vote Tuesday on shifting middle and high school schedules once again, this time to a four-day Plan A schedule.

Mecklenburg County's proposed budget for the new fiscal year includes $12 million for a variety of housing and homelessness programs. That includes $2.5 million to help the Salvation Army buy a hotel and convert it into a homeless shelter.

The Charlotte City Council Monday voted to keep the 2040 plan as staff had written it. If approved in June, that will make it easier to build duplexes and triplexes in neighborhoods with single-family homes.

North Carolina senators have presented some proposals to the public on how they could redraw boundary lines for congressional and state Senate districts. Republicans have offered congressional plans that would appear to give GOP candidates a good chance to win at least 10 of the state's 14 U.S. House seats.

The North Carolina Senate on Thursday morning released its second new congressional map in as many days. This comes after the state Supreme Court ordered lawmakers to redraw maps they came up with in 2021. Here's a look at how the GOP-led General Assembly is fitting in a new 14th District.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says while overall violent crime is down from this time last year, crimes involving guns are up.

North Carolina’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a split decision by a lower court to allow former Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest to pursue a lawsuit over a political ad run in support of his Democratic opponent in 2012.