Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald A 47-year-old man who was listed as Sanford’s traffic services supervisor in a recent Google search was charged with 69 felonies for obtaining property by false pretense and nine felonies for financial identity fraud. The amount of the alleged fraud totaled in the thousands of...

Josh Boak, Rob Gillies & Fabiola Sánchez/The Associated Press U.S. President Donald Trump held off Monday on his tariff threats against Mexico for one month of further negotiations after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country’s national guard to the border to address drug trafficking....

Ari Hawkins/Politico President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China may be illegal under the Constitution. But blocking the tariffs in court is likely to be difficult — and time-consuming. Trump announced Saturday he was levying 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and a 10...

Ben Rappaport/Border Belt Independent Bladen County wants its money back. The county gave Elizabethtown $100,000 in April 2023 to create a master plan for a mixed-use project at the town’s industrial park. Elizabethtown then opted to veer from the shared vision of the park and abandon its longstanding relationship with...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Trump administration said last week that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award grant money for highways and new transit projects based, in part, on which communities have higher marriage and birth rates. That could impact Charlotte, which is seeking billions of federal dollars for new...

Ryan J. Foley, Jim Mustian & Michael Biesecker/The Associated Press The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead to catastrophe. Those fears materialized Wednesday night when an American Airlines plane collided with a military helicopter, taking the lives of...

Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) (Mountaineer The telephone at McElroy Oil began ringing off the hook about three days before the cold snap that rocked much of the country last month. As overnight temperatures neared the zero mark and daytime temps didn’t rise much above 15 degrees Fahrenheit, the calls didn’t stop....

Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio The pressure is mounting for Saint Augustine’s University to balance its finances. The private HBCU has $32 million in debt, an ongoing battle with the IRS, and an impending accreditation appeal hearing scheduled for the end of February. Today marks a self-imposed deadline that university leaders said...

Andy Olsen/Christianity Today When federal agents took her husband away, Kenia Colindres was fasting. It helped her listen for God, which she had been doing ever since she came to America. Fleeing gangs in 2022, Colindres tried to listen to God along the more than 2,000 miles her family traveled...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Whose job is it to protect local pets? State law is vague. Because of that, the implementation of animal control and other pet-related services is often left up to the discretion of local governments, Carolina Public Press has learned. Some counties have robust, well-funded departments that...

Taylor Knopf/NC Health News When someone is having a mental health crisis — whether they’re thinking about suicide, acting erratically or experiencing hallucinations — they frequently end up in a hospital emergency department, mostly because there are few places for them to go. If a medical provider determines that the...

Tom Bowman/WUNC Radio The Army released the name of the third crew member of the Black Hawk helicopter that slammed into an American Airlines-affiliated flight above the Potomac River this week, killing 67 people. Captain Rebecca Lobach was 28 years old and a native of Durham, N.C. She was a...

Will Doran/WRAL News Mark Robinson is dropping his lawsuit against CNN — and potentially calling it quits on his political career, a stunning reversal for a man once seen as a rising star in national conservative politics. The former North Carolina lieutenant governor and Republican gubernatorial candidate had sued the...

Laurel Wamsley & James Doubek/WFAE Radio The Trump administration has fired Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The move was widely expected as President Trump is likely to name a new director for the agency, which is a frequent target of Republican attacks. Chopra was tapped...

Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press North Carolina’s highest court upheld on Friday a law that gave adult victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages, rejecting arguments that the temporary window violated constitutional protections for those facing claims that otherwise could no longer be pursued in...