Ms. Salcedo was found recovering in a North Carolina hospital. She had suffered a gunshot wound to her upper torso.

One was found in hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck. The other two were arrested in Alexandra. Two firearms were recovered.

I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave.

....mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn the forests set themselves afflame with color. Even winter has its icy charms.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Full, open deliberations can yield a better result for all of North Carolina, ... State taxpayers deserve full accountability of how the state spends their money.