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With time credited for good behavior, Bernard L. Madoff might be free in 2039.

An explosion at a North Carolina food plant led to a roof collapse at the facility, and some employees are trapped inside, fire officials said.

A North Carolina man is accused of arranging to have his wife raped through personal ads on the Web site Craigslist, police said Wednesday.

Police are looking into whether a gunman accused of killing eight people in a North Carolina nursing home may have targeted the facility because his estranged wife worked there.

Eight people have been killed and several others wounded in a shooting at a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, police said.

Thirteen Marines were injured after their tour buses crashed near Camp Lejeune Thursday morning.

Too many people in North Carolina either can't afford to go to the dentist or can't find one in their community, health leaders warn, and the problem is likely to grow worse.

Hall of Famer and longtime North Carolina State women's basketball coach Kay Yow has died after a decades-long fight against breast cancer. She was 66.