Man dies hiking trail on Blue Ridge Parkway known for its “haunting skeletons of ancient trees,” NC park says. Muhammad Sultan was from Columbia, SC, park says.

North Carolina lottery player fulfilled dream of winning big, hitting the jackpot. He scored $1 million, the first top prize in a new scratch-off ticket game.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before ...

A Thomasville woman is accused of using a notary stamp to falsify documents, the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office said.