Feb 21 Watch 8:25 Heat or hunger? Low-income families struggle to cope with winter weather By PBS News Hour As the brutal winter drags on for parts of the country, many low-income families are struggling to pay their energy bills. In North Carolina, local governments are increasingly partnering with private nonprofit organizations to try to find new ways to… Continue watching
Feb 11 Man charged with fatally shooting three Muslim students By Shehryar Nabi A man shot and killed three Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina late Tuesday in what police called an ongoing dispute over parking. Continue reading
Jan 24 North Carolina man exonerated after nearly four decades in prison By Carey Reed A three-judge panel on Friday declared a North Carolina man innocent after he had served almost 40 years of a life sentence for a 1976 double murder. Continue reading
Dec 15 Police can use evidence seized during mistaken traffic stops, Supreme Court rules By Sam Hananel, Associated Press The ruling came in a North Carolina case in which a police officer pulled over Nicholas Heien's car because the right brake light was out, although the left one still worked. A consensual search led to the discovery of cocaine… Continue reading
Nov 05 Watch North Carolina, Georgia go red at midterm despite demographic changes By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 28 Full interview: Gwen Ifill with Sen. Kay Hagan By Merrill Schwerin Everywhere she goes in North Carolina, Sen. Kay Hagan asks her supporters to repeat the same refrain: “Collectively say with me,” Hagan said to a packed room in Durham’s Convention Center Sunday, “Our state is not for sale.” And while… Continue reading
Oct 28 Full interview: Gwen Ifill with U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis By Merrill Schwerin At a campaign office in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sunday, Thom Tillis, The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, told a group of volunteers that he was recently at a televised football game where, after long delays between plays on the field,… Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch Full interview: Gwen Ifill with U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 23 Watch Why did no one flag UNC's bogus classes? By PBS News Hour For more than 18 years, thousands of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took credit courses that never met as a class with a professor; a disproportionate number of the students in those classes were athletes. Continue watching