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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Duke Energy asked regulators Friday to let its western North Carolina subsidiary raise household electricity bills by 16.7 percent and make consumers pay billions of dollars for a nuclear plant it won't open and the cleanup of coal ash deposited in unlined pits. The country's...

Mark Garrison, WBT News (Columbia, SC) About 100,000 eclipse enthusiasts are descending on Columbia this morning. One guy from Thomasville, North Carolina was first in line by the gates at the fairgrounds. He slept here overnight to make sure he didn't missed this once-in-a-lifetime experience...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The alumni association president of a troubled, for-profit law school in North Carolina says it's closing immediately. Lee Robertson Jr. says Charlotte School of Law employees were notified Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, the 11-year-old school's website had been taken down...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Allstate Insurance Co. announced on Wednesday plans to more than double its North Carolina workforce by expanding in the Charlotte area, investing more than $22 million and creating 2,250 new jobs by 2020. Gov. Roy Cooper and leaders of the nation's largest publicly-traded...

The state of North Carolina recently passed a brunch bill making it legal for communities to adopt a local ordinance that is beginning Sunday liquor sales starting at 10 a.m. instead of noon. Mecklenburg County has passed an ordiance to make it legal locally here in Charlotte. Restaurants can serve...

RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) -- Crews are taking two approaches to restore power to two North Carolina Outer Banks islands. Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative spokeswoman Laura Ertle said in a statement that crews are digging up damaged cables to splice together. The utility also is looking at an overhead...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police detectives said the man accused of sexual assault in a Myers Park neighborhood is in custody. Police said they have arrested Larry Jarome Bailey, Jr., 21, for his involvement in the sexual assault of two victims. On Wednesday, July 19, at approximately 8:30 a.m.,...

Executive Director of Supportive Housing Communities Pamela Jefsen talks with Scott about the housing situation in Charlotte and the plan to get them back on their feet.