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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Campaigners for Barack Obama are launching a statewide canvassing effort to register new voters and encourage North Carolina voters to back the Democratic presidential candidate.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader says the late North Carolina senator could teach his liberal counterparts a lesson in tenacity.
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is joining the chorus of those who want to see an increase in New Jersey's minimum wage.
Jim Hunt says North Carolina could be in play.
SALEM and mdash; Former presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, will be the speakers at the final program in the Salem State College Series on Sept. 23. The former North Carolina senator, who was the 2004 vice presidential candidate and running mate of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, is the latest in a long line of national political figures who have been part of the ...
This story is part of an occasional series examining key issues in the presidential campaign. Recent international trade deals have given Americans easy access to cheap clothes and DVD players while sending manufacturing jobs in North Carolina, Ohio and Michigan overseas.
WASHINGTON -- An initial examination of the plane that had maintenance problems while carrying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to an event in North Carolina found no evidence of missing parts or tampering, federal investigators said Thursday.
North Carolina lawmakers delayed voting on a plan to raise the penalties for hanging nooses and burning crosses when perpetrators are carrying out the acts to intimidate people.
Both candidates have indicated that North Carolina will be important in the election. Obama kicked off his general election campaign June 9 in Raleigh with a speech on economic policy. McCain spoke with prominent evangelist Billy Graham and his son in Montreat, N.C. June 29.
RALEIGH, N.C. — When telling stories about Jesse Helms after his death on the Fourth of July, the politician who took his place in Congress recalled how the iconic North Carolina senator liked to invite pages to sit down and chat over ice cream.
Are you sure they don't know him? As a public figure, his voting record, past speeches, and published writings are in the public domain … read more and readily accessible. To say they don't know him is to say they have not availed themselves of any of these resources.
North Carolina names are flying in the debate over whom the presidential candidates will choose as running mates.
A longtime North Carolina state employee has chosen to retire instead of lowering flags to honor former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms.
Helms poisoned the ideological well of politics, calling MLK, Jr. a communist and the 1964 Civil Rights Act "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress."
North Carolina's status as a political hotspot this election season was solidified last week when Barack Obama named a political director for his campaign in the state.
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Jesse Helms , the former five-term U.S. senator from North Carolina whose relish for thwarting initiatives he opposed as too liberal earned him the nickname ``Senator No,'' died at age 86.
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