by John Hinton
Media General News Service
Three Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate criticized Republican incumbent Richard Burr last night for pursuing a conservative agenda in Washington rather than representing North Carolinians’ best interests.
Ken Lewis, a Winston-Salem native and Durham lawyer, Cal Cunningham, a Lexington lawyer, and N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall spoke about [...]

by Laura Barron
NBC17
RALEIGH, N.C. — Andrew Young, John Edward’s former aid, is opening up about what it’s like to continue to live in Chapel Hill.
Young said it was a relief getting John Edwards affair and his own role in covering up the paternity of Edwards’ child off his chest. He details it all [...]

PITTSBORO, N.C.  – Attorneys are returning to court in an ongoing dispute over a tape purportedly showing two-time presidential candidate John Edwards in a sexual encounter.
Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones has scheduled a hearing for 10 a.m. on Tuesday. He has kept former Edwards aide Andrew Young under a contempt order and asked during [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – A legislative committee examining whether changes should be made to how North Carolina sells liquor will hold its first meeting by reviewing an earlier study by General Assembly researchers.
The Joint Study Committee on Alcoholic Beverage Control begins on Tuesday. It is charged with presenting recommendations to the full Legislature when it reconvenes [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  – Scores of state workers are taking a bus from North Carolina to Washington to join a rally protesting insurance industry opposition to overhauling health care.
Members of the State Employees Association of North Carolina are leaving Raleigh before dawn on Tuesday to demonstrate at an annual health insurance industry conference in Washington.
A coalition [...]

GREENSBORO, N.C.  – Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Monday unveiled fundraising ads that he said would help the GOP speak directly to sympathetic voters in targeted local markets and attract disaffected Democrats and independents.
Steele, who stopped in Greensboro to roll out the commercial, said Democratic leaders are running roughshod over what Americans want [...]

DURHAM, N.C. – North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt has endorsed attorney Ken Lewis in his bid for U.S. Senate.
The congressman said Monday that Lewis can bring new ideas and perspectives to Washington. Lewis is looking for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Richard Burr. Lewis faces two other well-financed Democrats, and Watt acknowledged in [...]

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is stopping in North Carolina to talk up a new television commercial he hopes will generate campaign funds for the GOP.
A party official said Steele was scheduled to talk with reporters in Greensboro on Monday to unveil the ad, which will run on cable in selected [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – State Board of Elections Chairman Larry Leake didn’t want to hear about a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opens the doors to more direct corporate and union involvement in political campaigns while he weighed evidence whether the North Carolina Association of Realtors broke the law in 2008.
“I am at this moment [...]