Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law on Friday legislation providing money to help run North Carolina elections safely and securely during the COVID-19 pandemic and making it easier to cast mail-in absentee ballots this fall. The House and Senate gave ...

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North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper says the Republican-controlled legislature is again trampling on his authority, this time through the state budget that lawmakers passed this summer. In a legal filing Aug. 8, Cooper asserted that the legislators used budget ...

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper cleaned off from his desk the last remaining bills the General Assembly sent him in June by letting them become law without his signature. Cooper had until midnight Sunday to sign or veto bills. But ...

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Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a bill to provide for the establishment of an arbitration and mediation program for the North Carolina Business Court. The new law, which Cooper signed June 18, instructs the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts ...

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed legislation Monday that would have allowed local governments and attorneys in an urban county to stop posting legal notices in newspapers and put them on government websites instead. The legal notice changes would have ...

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Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed two new district court judges and promoted another to the superior court. Judge Vince Rozier, previously a district court judge in District 10B, which serves Wake County, was named to the superior court in that ...

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In an election whose margin is thinner than good pastrami, as is the case with this year’s gubernatorial election, any little thing can be the difference between ecstasy and agony. But if Roy Cooper is indeed the state’s next governor, ...

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GREENSBORO (AP) — A judge has ordered the temporary closure of a Greensboro-based insulation company after nearly 20 complaints from its customers and intervention by North Carolina’s top prosecutor. Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a news release to local ...

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Two North Carolina Democrats primed to take on Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in 2016 both say they raised six figures for their campaign coffers in the second half of last year.

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RALEIGH (AP) — When attorney general candidate Dan Boyce filed a defamation lawsuit against Roy Cooper, his campaign committee and aides over a campaign television commercial, Bill Clinton was just wrapping up two terms as president and Jim Hunt was ...

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