North Carolina’s unemployment rate increased to 5.9 percent July, the sixth consecutive month-over-month increase and diverging farther from the national rate.
At 5 a.m., the center of the Category 1 storm was located about 985 miles east-southeast of the Leeward Islands. A NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate Danny late Friday afternoon. Danny would then enter warm open waters of the Atlantic south of the Bahamas,...
The four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion racing in his final full-time campaign will attempt to drive his colorful auto to Victory Lane for the first time this season in the IRWIN Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN). He led 19...
The Supreme Court of Missouri [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that a statute prohibiting convicted felons from possessing firearms does not violate the Missouri Constitution’s [BallotPedia backgrounder] right to bear arms.
The Los Angeles police detective who said that rapper Biggie Smalls might have been killed with police help has died suddenly himself, according to NBC News.