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November 3, 2016

North Carolina couple accused of chaining 6 kids to beds

Police in North Carolina have charged a couple accused of chaining their six children to their beds and locked them in their rooms.

November 3, 2016

Police: Mom never showed up at bus stop for kindergartener

A North Carolina woman has been arrested after police say she left her young children home alone for hours and never picked up her kindergarten student at a school bus stop.

November 3, 2016

Judge: 1995 double-murder conviction tossed, freedom to come

A North Carolina judge has thrown out the double-murder conviction of a man who has spent 21 years in prison and favors his immediate release from prison.

November 3, 2016

Police: NC mother and her boyfriend put child in dryer

Police say they have arrested a North Carolina mother and her boyfriend after they put a child under 12 into a clothes dryer.

November 3, 2016

17 injured after church van, SUV collide on NC highway

A van carrying a Virginia church group crashed into an SUV that crossed into its lane on a North Carolina highway early Sunday, sending 17 people to hospitals, the State Highway Patrol said.

November 2, 2016

Teen's adoptive father admitted in prison to burying girl

Search warrants released in South Carolina say the adoptive father of a teenager who disappeared in 2011 told investigators that he buried her shortly before Christmas that year and then agreed to lead them to the spot.

November 1, 2016

Soldier who took AR-15 to mall has weapons charge dismissed

Prosecutors have dropped a weapons charge against a Fort Bragg soldier who carried an AR-15 automatic rifle into a North Carolina mall for a photo shoot and triggered a lockdown.

November 1, 2016

GOP senator apologizes for 'bull's-eye' remark about Clinton

North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr is apologizing after he was caught telling Republican supporters that he was surprised Hillary Clinton appeared on the cover of a gun magazine without a bull's-eye on her face.

November 1, 2016

Court reopens lawsuit challenging prayer at NC commission

An appeals court has reopened a lawsuit challenging a North Carolina county commission's practice of starting meetings with Christian prayer.

October 31, 2016

Pizza Hut worker shoots, kills attempted robber

A Pizza Hut employee shot and killed a man during an attempted armed robbery after hours at the store early Sunday morning in west Charlotte, N.C., according to Charlotte Mecklenburg Police.