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Legal online sports betting in North Carolina is poised to begin in March on the eve of the region's beloved Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament.

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper says he's going to use his final year on the job to build a coalition to prod the Republican-led General Assembly to improve public schools. Cooper made the education announcement Tuesday at the Nash County elementary school he attended as a boy. He used the occasion to formally proclaim 2024 as "The Year of Public Schools."

Some federal search warrants have revealed new details about a shooting in August on the University of North Carolina's flagship campus that left a professor dead. The warrants state the graduate student charged in the shooting bought a pistol and also visited a gun range the day before Zijie Yan was killed inside a laboratory building at UNC-Chapel Hill.

A North Carolina Supreme Court justice has ended her lawsuit against an ethics commission because she says the judicial panel scrutinizing her comments about the courts, colleagues and race has dismissed a complaint against her.

A North Carolina judge has given Gov. Roy Cooper a legal win involving an environmental board and a new law that reduced the number of positions he appoints to it. The trial judge agreed Thursday to issue a temporary restraining order preventing the Environmental Management Commission from ending its own lawsuit over new discharge limits of an industrial chemical.

Josh Stein's campaign for North Carolina governor says it raised more than $5.7 million during the past six months. The Democrat's organization revealed this and other fundraising numbers on Thursday in advance of a reporting deadline later this month.

A major storm has drenched the Northeast and slammed it with fierce winds, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands. That's followed a bout of violent weather ranging from snowstorms to tornado reports in other areas of the country.

The Carolina Panthers have fired general manager Scott Fitterer, one day after the team finished with an NFL-worst 2-15 record. The Panthers will be looking for a head coach and a general manager this offseason.

The northeast is preparing for a weekend winter storm that threatens to dump a messy mix of snow, rain and ice.

A judge says a North Carolina law that makes it a serious crime for someone to vote while still on probation or parole for a felony conviction shouldn't be thrown out.