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A teacher and basketball coach at a Union County charter school was shot to death last week in what the Alamance County sheriff described Wednesday as a shootout at a drug cartel stash house. An 18-year-old was also killed in the violent chain of events.

A South Carolina nonprofit bought a home, now called Her Place, that will soon offer beds for 15 women experiencing homelessness at a time.

A weakened but resilient Tropical Storm Elsa drenched northern Florida and southern Georgia with heavy rain Wednesday, killing at least one person near the state line and threatening to maintain tropical storm intensity until it reaches New England.

Executions in South Carolina came to a stop a decade ago when pharmaceutical companies stopped providing drugs for lethal injections. In a move to restart executions, the state updated its capital punishment law to include the choice of execution by firing squad.

The North Carolina General Assembly is expected to approve new political maps next week. And while some GOP-drawn maps have been given failing grades, one outside group said maps from Illinois and Texas are worse.

A pre-Civil War farmhouse built by a wealthy gold miner in Mecklenburg County is up for sale in west Charlotte. The home has been restored by a local couple that saved it from demolition in 2014.

The CEO of an online educational gaming company donated more than $40,000 combined to the North Carolina Republican Party. Around the same time, his company, Plasma Games, received $6.3 million in state funding to put its science platform in schools. Now, state education officials say more than half the funds are going unused by schools.

Each Monday, a group of 50 or more runners meet at the Atherton Mill Shopping Center. It is Charlotte’s first women-only run club.

President Joe Biden has pledged to fight for stalled voting rights and police reform legislation. That's despite not having the votes in the Senate to move either measure closer to becoming law. Biden commented while delivering the commencement address at South Carolina State University on Friday.

President Biden has said he would name a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice Stephen Beyer. South Carolina Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn is touting Judge J. Michelle Childs.

Members of the state Board of Education say they’ve gotten thousands of emails about proposed new social studies standards. The debate over how to address racism, oppression and gender identity is clearly striking a nerve.

The new stage show tells the real life stories of Black women in Charlotte. It also kicks off a week-long artistic celebration of Black women in Charlotte, called "Queen Charlotte Week."

Two lifelong Republicans representing neighboring congressional districts in South Carolina, U.S. Reps. Nancy Mace and Tom Rice, are unlikely players in the fierce debate over the future of their party — and former President Donald Trump's influence over it.

Rural hospitals struggling the most financially in North Carolina are in poorer counties with higher unemployment rates and greater populations of Black and Latino residents.

Tyler Childers bares his fangs. Patty Griffin honors her mother. Indigo De Souza approaches the precipice. Read our list of the best records out July 25.

Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest."

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most Florida of them all? A new top 10 list of bizarre stories from a Miami-based injury claims company attempts to answer that question.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about Trump's birthright citizenship order. Trump told reporters he wanted to sit in, bucking norms, because "I have listened to this argument for so long."

The former attorney general, nominated to return to run the Justice Department, backed President George H.W. Bush's decision to pardon ex-Reagan officials caught up in an earlier imbroglio.

President Trump has fired his homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and said Markwayne Mullin, a senator from Oklahoma, would replace her.