If you want to vote early, you only have two more days.
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Early voting ends Saturday. If you are not yet registered to vote, you can still mark a ballot on early voting days, because staff will register you on site.
See the full list of area times and locations for early [...]

By Lauren Hills
NBC17 NEWS
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Just a few days before the November election and the mayoral candidates in Chapel Hill are making their final pushes for votes.
Mark Kleinschmidt, an eight-year council member, said he’s experienced in handling issues he believes are most important to the town. For example, he said downtown safety, the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In Washington Thursday, democrats rolled out a brand new plan for health reform, with a toned-down version of the government insurance option.
But republicans argue the plan includes too many taxes that’ll either be levied on or passed on to the poor and middle class.
Democrats made a big show of announcing their new [...]

WASHINGTON  – After months of struggle, House Democrats rolled out sweeping legislation Thursday to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A vote is likely next week on the plan largely tailored to President Barack Obama’s liking.
Speaking on the steps of the Capitol, Speaker Nancy [...]

WASHINGTON  – The House has approved a stopgap spending measure to avoid a shutdown for 11 Cabinet-level departments whose budgets won’t be enacted by a midnight Saturday deadline.
The measure would give Congress until Dec. 18 to finish seven incomplete spending measures that were supposed to be wrapped up by Sept. 30. The bill passed by [...]

Winston-Salem Journal Editorial
During the summer of 2002, while North Carolina suffered through a serious drought, then-Gov. Mike Easley pleaded with residents to conserve water.
Turn off the faucet while you shave and brush your teeth, the governor suggested. His aides set up public-relations events where he walked through parched farm fields and lamented [...]

By Michael Hewlett
Media General News Service
Gov. Bev Perdue can stall but not stop the release of 27 inmates convicted of violent crimes in the 1970s, legal experts said.
The inmates, convicted in the 1970s of crimes that included murder, rape and robbery, are eligible for release because of credits – time off their sentences – they [...]

By: SARAH HOYE
Media General News Service
One professor called it spiteful. Another said it was far-fetched.
Those were the reactions to a request by three Republican congressmen that President Barack Obama get the permission of Congress before he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Monday, U.S Reps. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Cliff Stearns of Florida and Ron Paul [...]

WASHINGTON  – President Barack Obama says small businesses that participate in a proposed government health care plan could save a quarter on their premiums by 2016.
Obama on Thursday told small business leaders that few people have a bigger stake in health reform than they do. He says the House version of a health care bill [...]