CHARLOTTE, N.C., January 29, 2015 — President Obama has been lying to the American people for so long that he isn’t even good at it any more. Prevarication used to be Obama’s strength, but “the little boy who cried wolf” has…

WILMINGTON, N.C. Like the soldiers he portrays at living history events and battle re-enactments 150 years after the end of the Civil War, James White employs the element of surprise. Visitors who come to these commemorations believing they understand the…

Brian Kaplun and Stelio Ropokis were giddy as they walked out of Stanford Memorial Auditorium after listening to President Barack Obama’s speech Friday. Like other Stanford students, the 18-year-olds had entered a lottery to snag tickets as soon as they…

Whole Foods Market announced it will open a second grocery store in Sarasota this year. The new store in Sarasota is one of eight supermarkets Whole Foods is opening in the U.S. and Canada in 2015, executives said during the…

Brian Kaplun and Stelio Ropokis were giddy as they walked out of Stanford Memorial Auditorium after listening to President Barack Obama’s speech Friday. Like other Stanford students, the 18-year-olds had entered a lottery to snag tickets as soon as they…

Seth Borenstein Study: World dumps 8.8 million tons of plastics into oceans Jenna Jambeck, an environment engineering professor at the University of Georgia, holds a plastic baggie with trash collected last fall from a clean up at Panama Beach, Fla.,…

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Local politicians are hopeful the economic impact of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia will spill into the region, but some area tourism bureaus aren’t as convinced. The 2012 convention in Charlotte, N.C., gave the city a $164 million economic boost,…

Updated at 9:05 a.m.: Hicks reportedly condemned all religions on Facebook, and was a self described “anti-theist”. This image provided by the Durham County Sheriff’s office shows a booking photo of Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, who was arrested on three…

by Warner Todd Huston12 Feb 20150 Back in 2010 the city fathers of Charlotte, NC, thought that they were going to experience a multitude of economic benefits from helping to pay for a new NASCAR museum. But they experienced debt…