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Austria has halted all train traffic from Hungary, after 12,000 migrants arrived in a single day. Now there's a backlog of migrants at Budapest's main station who want to travel west.

The most dramatic case occurred earlier this month when a scramble to steal gasoline ended in a hellish fireball. Other recent incidents involved residents pilfering a humanitarian aid vehicle.

When the FBI recovered virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg's stolen Stradivarius after his death, his daughters wanted the instrument to be played everywhere. Ensuring that was not so simple.

The semicolon has been described as a "graceful pause" in writing. But this graceful punctuation mark is being forgotten.

In 1939, the character of Mr. Smith — played by Jimmy Stewart — spent 25 hours on the Senate floor railing against corruption.

Opponents say a Stokes County data center proposal threatens land tied to Indigenous and enslaved peoples’ history. The rezoning request goes before county leaders tonight.

Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican who didn’t seek reelection in November after three Senate terms, and Gerald Fauth, the brother of Burr’s wife, had been scrutinized for potential insider trading by the SEC.

In his annual State of the State speech, the Republican governor said he will petition next week for a rehearing after the South Carolina Supreme Court recently struck down the state's abortion ban.

Two companies — Duke Energy and a French company — have won leases for offshore wind farms off North Carolina with bids totaling $315 million.

ONE Charlotte Health Alliance is providing free HIV testing from 10 a.m. to 4.p.m. at the Brookwood Inn and the Crisis Assistance Ministry Wednesday.

The former South Carolina governor's new tone stands in stark contrast with April 2021, when she said she would not seek her party’s nomination if Trump were also running.

Former President Donald Trump held a fundraiser Tuesday night for N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's campaign for governor.

The lawsuit in state court says current congressional and state legislative maps endanger voters' constitutional right to free and fair elections.

In Wednesday’s compromise, the GOP agreed to give North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, the ability to step in and close schools in case of a COVID-19 emergency. But Democrats backed away from their earlier position that middle and high schools follow CDC recommendations that students need to be at least six feet apart.

North Carolina regulators have approved a rate increase for Duke Energy customers in the central part of the state, including Charlotte — but it's less than the company asked for. Wednesday's order by the North Carolina Utilities Commission also trims what Duke had hoped to charge customers for the cost of cleaning up coal ash.

Asheville City Council voted Tuesday evening to remove the Vance Monument from its spot in the city's main public space. The monument is named for Zebulon Vance, a North Carolina governor and U.S. senator. Vance and his family enslaved people prior to the war, and he fought vehemently against full civil rights for Black Americans after it.

North Carolina lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill to make it illegal for physicians to perform abortions because of the fetus' race or a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

After being rebuked in court for trying to spend his share of federal COVID-19 money on private school tuition grants, South Carolina's governor wants to spend the money on early childhood education, job training and tutors for foster children instead.

Duke Energy plans to move its headquarters to a new building it's constructing across the street from its current home in uptown Charlotte. The company says it's adopting a new workplace model that dramatically reduces its need for office space.

More than half of the untested sexual assault kits recently accounted for in law enforcement evidence lockers across North Carolina have now been tested or are awaiting testing at private labs, Attorney General Josh Stein said on Tuesday.