Lisa Worf

North Carolina contracts with several psychiatric residential treatment facilities to take in children with severe mental health and behavioral problems. But a new investigation by the USA Today network finds that often, kids leave with more trauma because they receive physical and sexual abuse at the centers.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster last week asked the state superintendent to conduct an investigation into how the book "Gender Queer: A Memoir" ended up in public school libraries, calling it "obscene." But legal experts have a different opinion on whether it meets that definition.

Mark Canrobert and Joie Fulbright tied in the Conover, North Carolina, City Council race with 509 votes. A week after Election Day, Canrobert won — with the flip of a coin.

Inmates in North Carolina prisons no longer receive actual letters penned by friends and loved ones. Starting this week, they receive copies of those letters. It’s a change state prison officials say they made to help reduce the amount of drugs entering facilities.

Police say overall crime is down 4% in Charlotte compared to the first nine months of 2020. Violent crime decreased 3%.

North Carolina has no plans to exclude prisoners when drawing legislative voting districts, but local jurisdictions are grappling with how to handle prisoners as they redistrict.

The Charlotte-based hospital system has said the district could create 11,500 jobs over the next 15 years and more than $800 million in earnings.

If you want to get a better sense of how police operate in schools in North Carolina, you’re going to have a hard time getting that information. Schools are supposed to track the number of students they refer to police. But many districts aren’t doing that.

Amazon officials have been saying the rate of serious injuries in their warehouses has been improving with hefty spending on safety measures. However, data from more than 150 Amazon fulfillment centers, including those in North Carolina and South Carolina, indicate that's not the case.

"The swingiest of swing states." That's what one political scientist dubbed North Carolina. Indeed, we've had some of the nation's closest presidential...