North Carolina

Police said they found a U-Haul truck filled with marijuana that has a street value of nearly $3 million at a North Carolina casino.

Detectives said the man appeared to be in the middle of cutting off the exhaust pipe to get to the catalytic converter when the jack slipped, bringing the car down on the man, killing him.

A North Carolina man made the mistake of his life after accidentally buying two identical lottery tickets. He won big — twice.

Virginia Marie “Jenny” Spencer and her husband, Christopher, had the child “in tow” when they joined other rioters who overwhelmed a line of police officers, invaded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite and demanded entry to the House chamber, prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo.

The scene has been cleared but police are searching for additional suspects.

“When I say a really blessed pregnancy, it really was,” Susie Troxler, 50, said.

The Winston-Salem Police Department in North Carolina had to shut down a stretch of highway for several hours to clean up the debris.

David Duvall claimed he was fired due to Novant Health's diversity efforts.

A North Carolina couple has been charged after DNA evidence linked them to the remains of an infant abandoned in the trash in 1991, police said.

Walks aren't just for dogs, apparently. Officers in North Carolina could be seen walking a 9-foot alligator on a "leash" after removing the reptile from a public pool.

“I said, ‘You might want to change your appearance for a while or this will continue to happen where you go,’” Graham County Sheriff Jerry Crisp told Severin Beckwith, the Brian Laundrie doppelgänger.

U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs ruled late Monday that the University of North Carolina has shown that it has a compelling reason to pursue a diverse student body and has demonstrated that measurable benefits come from that goal.

Elderly animals typically have a harder time getting adopted, but when 101-year-old Penny decided to adopt a new cat, she found a "purr-fect" companion in Gus, a 19-year-old feline who had recently been surrendered to the animal shelter.

“I encourage every student to use this time to rest and to check in with each other during that day,” Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said in a statement Sunday.

“There's no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,” North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said in a video posted by an advocacy group.

Prosecutors said a 31-year-old North Carolina man ordered expensive products from Amazon and defrauded the company of nearly $300,000 in a return scheme.

Heavy rainfall in North Carolina flooded parts of the state this week, including a massive sinkhole in the city of Morganton.

Drone footage captured over the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina shows leaves beginning their dazzling autumn color transformation.

Dior Singleton, 2, is believed to be with his mother, 31-year-old Camille Nechelle Singleton.