Around 65million people are in the path of the storm which has weakened slightly to a Category 2 with 110mph winds as it approaches the East Coast. Heightened waves of 6ft to 9ft have already started hitting North Carolina’s coast, which is first in line and home to some of America’s most heavily populated areas […]

The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center expects Irene to target the Southeast coast as a strengthening hurricane after emerging from the Bahamas on Thursday. The coastal communities at risk to serve as Irene’s landfall point later this week lie from Miami, Fla., to Morehead City, N.C. North Carolina Department of Transportation evacuation routes “A look at [latest […]

NORTH CAROLINA- Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X was arrested in Mars Hill, North Carolina and charged with identity theft. Related: Top 9 episodes of The Cosby Show The New York Times reports: The warrant included charges of grand larceny and identity theft. A law enforcement official said Ms. Shabazz was accused of stealing […]

North Carolina– The mother of a missing 17-year-old honor student from North Carolina said she was stunned to learn that “20 different guys” passed through the home where the girl was staying and that the girl was allowed to drink alcohol while visiting family in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, MD — The FBI is now in on the search to find a missing teen from our state. Phylicia Barnes was reported missing last week while she was in Baltimore to visit family. Barnes, who is from Monroe, North Carolina, left the apartment she was staying at on December 28 to get something to […]

Authorities are working to determine whether the mutilated body of Delvonte Tisdale, a North Carolina student, found in a Boston suburb fell from a plane.

The average murder case in North Carolina took 544 days to go to trial last fiscal year. In that time, 619 people were charged with murder and only 106 went to trial. “People get frustrated in the length of time it takes to work through the caseloads and the fact that so many cases are […]

The richest man in North Carolina continues to reign not only in the state but on the list of the richest people in the U.S. as well. The latest Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans ranks SAS co-founder and CEO Jim Goodnight at number 35, with a net worth of about $6.9 billion. He […]

It took legislators three tries to settle on regulatory language that was just right – not too socialistic, please, and not too free-market – to tame North Carolina’s mischievous plague of fat license-plate frames. Enacted in 2009, the law was modified twice this year. It bans frames that obscure the basic information on your auto […]

The NWS just issued new advisories for the east coast. They’ve upgraded the watches in NC/Virginia to warnings and have extended the watch north to Maryland and just south of Jersey. Here’s a link to the new advisory: And here’s one to the map:

People Magazine is reporting that Fantasia has admitted that her recent overdose was a suicide attempt. “I didn’t have any fight in me. I didn’t care about anything. I just wanted out,” the American Idol winner, 26, tells VH1 in a new Behind the Music interview, airing 9 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday, the same day her […]