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By Staff Reports | Wed, 05/16/2012 - 4:31pm
Mitt Romney has stretched his lead in the Tar Heel State to eight-points over President Obama, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll taken this week. Polls taken last month showed the two in a virtual tie.
The latest Rasmussen telephone survey of Likely Voters in North Carolina shows the likely Republican nominee earning 51% of the vote to Obama’s 43%.
That’s a sizable swing from Rasmussen's April poll showing Romney with a narrow 46% to 44% lead over the president in North Carolina.›Read More
By Lynn Veach Sadler | Wed, 05/16/2012 - 1:54pm
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Hester Pearsall. Photo courtesy: Maude Pickett Smith.
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Although I grew up in Duplin County and edit its history journal, Footnotes, I was graduated from high school in Lee County and happen to have returned here to live. For the “Sadler (But Wiser)” column, I need a Lee County connection. I never imagined having one unexpectedly presented to me via my current Duplin project.
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By Staff Reports | Mon, 05/07/2012 - 4:42pm
RALEIGH, N.C. – Marriage Amendment proponents appear to be ahead in North Carolina, according to current polling by both the conservative-leaning Civitas Institute and the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP).
"Our final marriage amendment poll finds it leading by a 55-39 margin, little change from a week ago when it was ahead 55-41," said PPP's Tom Jensen. "The final yes percentage will likely be somewhere in the 57-59% range depending on how the undecideds break."
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By Lynn Veach Sadler | Thu, 04/26/2012 - 10:54am
An aside in my Preface to Sanford Central High School, 1950-1959 offers this: “So I get to ‘pay back’ what was done for me that senior year when I came here because my parents had divorced at a time when parents didn’t divorce. It was a tragic time for me, but I didn’t have the chance to brood; students, faculty, and, particularly, Principal Odom wouldn’t let me. What an extraordinary individual he was!” I am not the only one who thought so.›Read More
By Staff Reports | Mon, 04/23/2012 - 2:02pm
2011 wound up being one of the worst years for tornadoes in in recent state history. The National Weather Service recorded 63 tornadoes last year, more than twice the state average, with nearly half of those on one day.
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By Staff Reports | Sat, 04/14/2012 - 8:14pm
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Watt Jones
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RALEIGH, N.C. – A months-long shroud of secrecy slipped away late Friday in an unfolding scandal one Democratic Party official in North Carolina says might threaten everything from his party's efforts to defend gay marriage to its chances to hold on to the governor's office this fall.
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By Staff Reports | Sun, 05/13/2012 - 1:30pm
SANFORD, N.C. -- Lee Early College's Science Olympiad brought home seventh and eighth place medals from the recent Science Olympiad statewide competition held at North Carolina State University.
More than 100 teams and approximately 1,000 students took part in the competition. LEC's Science Olympiad team has been in competitions for four years and won multiple medals, but this is the first time it competed at the state level.›Read More
By Staff Reports | Tue, 05/01/2012 - 5:41pm
ELON, N.C. -- Two years after the passage of a law that fundamentally restructures the nation’s health care system, more North Carolinians remain sour about the law and believe it will make the health care situation in the United States worse in the long run, according to the latest Elon University Poll.
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By Staff Reports | Wed, 04/25/2012 - 2:17pm
SANFORD, N.C. — When the Sanford Pottery Festival returns the first weekend in May, visitors throughout the state and well beyond will flock to Sanford once again.
Not only does the state's largest pottery festival inject much-needed cash into the local economy during its weekend run, but it stimulates local spending all year long.
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By Staff Reports | Mon, 04/16/2012 - 3:43pm
 RDU AIRPORT, N.C. – Gov. Bev Perdue scheduled a stop at RDU airport last week to announce new non-stop service between the Research Triangle region and San Francisco. United Airlines will offer the daily service from RDU beginning August 15 using Boeing 737 aircraft.
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By Staff Reports | Sat, 04/14/2012 - 10:49am
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — It was 9 a.m. on a Monday morning in Hawaii when a young Sgt. Carl Green heard a knock on his hotel room door. He had spent the weekend partying out in town, celebrating his recent departure from the Marine Corps. He had originally planned on re-enlisting, but only if he got selected to become a drill instructor. That didn’t happen so Green decided to head back home to South Carolina and look for work. Before going anywhere, he planned on taking a 20-day vacation in Hawaii.
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