RALEIGH (AP) A new official political party in North Carolina says a law blocking some of its nominated candidates from standing for election this fall is unconstitutional. The Constitution Party of North Carolina and three individuals picked to run under ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on a new case on partisan redistricting for now. Instead, the justices are sending a dispute over North Carolina’s heavily Republican congressional districting map back to a lower court for ...

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NEW BERN (AP) A federal judge has dismissed a challenge by residents and property owners to a proposed bridge at the North Carolina Outer Banks. News outlets report the 46-page decision by U.S. District Court Judge Louise Flanagan on June 4 ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Because he can’t pay $228 in traffic fines, Seti Johnson faces revocation of his North Carolina’s driver’s license, which means he won’t be able to drive to the job he hopes to get soon. For Sharee Smoot, the ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The world’s largest pork producer put its best case before jurors May 30 to debunk claims that its waste is responsible for stenches so foul that life for rural neighbors is miserable. It’s the second lawsuit to come to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Industrial-scale hog producers knew for decades that noxious smells from open-air sewage pits tormented neighbors but didn’t change their livestock-raising methods to keep production costs low, the lawyer for farm neighbors told jurors in a federal lawsuit April ...

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