RALEIGH, N.C. – Congressional ethics investigators say North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler did not act inappropriately when a residential development that he was involved in sought lake-access rights from the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Top lawmakers on the House Ethics Committee said in a letter to Shuler that it was closing the matter after reviewing a TVA [...]

DURHAM, N.C. – On Nov. 12, State Representatives Paul Luebke and Mickey Michaux and State Senator Robert Atwater will visit Durham Technical Community College for a panel discussion about how the state budget is developed and the challenges faced in the 2009 legislative session.
The legislators will discuss the difficulties of plunging revenues during the recession [...]

Gov. Bev Perdue says the time and energy she placed into a trade mission to Asia will be well worth it.
The governor and commerce secretary spent two weeks in Japan and China to drum up new business for the state.
According to the North Carolina Commerce Department, China is the state’s second largest trading partner importing [...]

GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan has withdrawn her support for a possible lifetime federal appointment for a state judge who ruled in favor of a company that includes Hagan’s husband.
The News & Record of Greensboro reported Thursday that Hagan three weeks ago recommended Superior Court Judge Calvin Murphy to fill a vacant [...]

Incumbent Jennifer Robinson came just a few votes shy of retaining her seat back in October’s municipal election.
She won Tuesday’s runoff with more than 53 percent of the vote, holding off challenger Lori Bush.
Wednesday, though, a political action committee supporting Bush filed a complaint with the North Carolina Board of Elections.
Steering committee members for the [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. — The State Board of Elections wants campaign finance reform following the $100,000 penalty it handed the Mike Easley campaign committee for unreported flights.
Right now, the board can only penalize campaign committees for violations, not the candidate him or herself.
So in former Governor Mike Easley’s case, he is not personally responsible for [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Voters have narrowly elected a Democrat to lead Charlotte, North Carolina’s largest city.
With most of the votes counted, Anthony Foxx was leading challenger John Lassiter, a Republican, by nearly 3,000 votes out of 105,000 cast. But Lassiter conceded defeat before the final, unofficial results were released by the Mecklenburg Board of Elections.
Foxx [...]

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CHARLOTTE, N.C.  – The candidates began their campaigns months ago, and now it’s up to the voters in North Carolina’s
largest city to decide which of them will be the new mayor.
Polls in Charlotte will open at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and will close at 7:30 p.m. Democrat Anthony Foxx and Republican John Lassiter are competing to [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  – An audit says the state board that licenses North Carolina funeral home directors and embalmers failed to maintain properly the minutes from the board’s closed sessions.
State Auditor Beth Wood’s office said Tuesday the state Board of Funeral Service acknowledged to auditors that formal minutes of the closed sessions had not been created [...]