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 Kay Hagan has withdrawn her support for a possible lifetime federal appointment for a state judge who ruled in favor of a company that includes Hagan’s husband.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 [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Several dozen legislators are back in Raleigh to discuss North Carolina’s tax structure and whether an overhaul can be approved as soon as next spring.
A joint House-Senate finance committee met for the first time Tuesday to hear from experts on the state’s sales tax and its exemptions.
Democratic leaders at the General Assembly [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  – North Carolina appellate judges have upheld the conviction of former state Rep. Thomas Wright on three counts of obtaining property by false pretenses.
Wright was found guilty in April 2008 and sent to prison on charges he mishandled charity contributions and fraudulently obtained a $150,000 loan. A three-judge panel on the North Carolina [...]