Detectives say Sandy Landis wrote more than $21,000 in unauthorized checks to herself while working as a transitional consultant. Bank records show the funds were deposited into her personal account and masked as consulting fees and vacation pay.

Engineers say the GOES-19 satellite experienced a technical anomaly and entered a protective safehold mode. The spacecraft serves as the primary eye in the sky for tracking tropical systems in the Atlantic and monitoring drifting Canadian wildfire smoke.

Public schools in North Carolina are facing billions of dollars in unfunded school construction projects, and a lottery-supported grant program is only able to address a fraction of the requests it receives.

The Department of Environmental Quality issued advisories for public access areas at Banks Channel in Wrightsville Beach, and two sites along Bogue Sound in Morehead City.

The PROMISE Act instructs the bipartisan Social Security Advisory Board to submit a "base bill" to extend the program's financial solvency. If the board fails to do so, the bill creates a backup process allowing lawmakers to put forward their own bipartisan proposals.

United States District Judge Terrence Boyle has announced plans to take senior status on the federal bench. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, Boyle became the nation’s longest-serving active federal District Court judge last year.

Mount Airy approved a 60-day moratorium on new data center projects on Thursday. Davidson County leaders are considering a six-month pause of their own.

Congressman Dr. Greg Murphy said the current system is unsustainable, forces medical consolidation, and drives up costs for families.

The law removes the ability of individual school districts to set their own review policies. It establishes a uniform system across all 100 counties.

State regulators are still deliberating over Duke Energy’s rate hike request for next year. But the most financially vulnerable customers may experience a second shock on top of higher rates as a little-known pilot program expires.

The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries says opening dates will depend on location and equipment type to help keep harvests within strict environmental quotas

School nutrition officials from across the country gathered in Charlotte this week to share ideas and explore new products as they prepare for potential changes to federal school meal standards.

Dallas Woodhouse has faced criticism for contacting county election officials to propose changes to early voting locations and hours. He had been serving as an elections liaison for State Auditor Dave Boliek since last year.

As the U.S. marks its 250th birthday, most stories focus on familiar figures and places like Washington, Jefferson, Boston and Yorktown. In Kings Mountain, about 45 minutes west of Charlotte, a new exhibit instead highlights an often overlooked story: the Native Americans — especially the Catawba Nation, who lived in the Charlotte area and supported the patriots in almost every major battle and skirmish in the South.

North Carolinians now use the 24-hour service more than twice as much as when it first began in 2022.

Retired pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is known for safely landing an airplane on the Hudson River in 2009. This week, he announced that he has Alzheimer's disease.

After 17 countries and audiences of thousands, the concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of the landmark musical is drawing to a close.

As rainfall saturates Texas this week, Lorena Guillen reflects on the year it has been since she and her husband tried to save a family from their RV park in the massive Hill Country floods last year.

Researchers have developed a new kind of robot that flies through the air, swims through the water, and transitions between the two realms.

Allegations of domestic violence add to the concerns about an ICE officer who shot and killed a man in Maine July 13.

NPR's Scott Simon asks the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Dana Stroul about the Strait of Hormuz and the Iran War.

Decades ago, Israel was actively shrinking its presence in many of the areas it is now aggressively militarily engaging.

It's a hearty breakfast favorite in the South American country - Tigrillo. And its main ingredient is Ecuador's huge green plantain. The dish is full of flavor, energy and keeps you full for hours!

Three months from the November midterms, President Trump is drawing attention to issues that are not top priorities for voters.

NPR's Scott Simon and Big Ten Network sports reporter Michele Steele preview the World Cup Final.