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The Crisis Assistance Ministry said it has received an increased number of requests for rent assistance and less funding to ...

A traffic stop in Vermont has cracked open a cultlike group called Zizians linked to six deaths in three states ...

Here's a look at the timeline of events in a series of killings that culminated in a Jan. 20 highways shootout that killed a ...

The killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland near the Canadian border last month and five other homicides in Vermont, ...

In 1956, Burgwyn sat on the Selection Committee for the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association’s Sir Walter ...

A balanced diet, consistent movement, quality sleep and fulfilling relationships all promote longevity. However, health care ...

Jillian Myers knows the devastation of losing a husband and feeling alone and empty, particularly on Valentine's Day.

The best-selling author based “The Notebook” and other heart-tugging novels in New Bern, where he lives. But what makes the ...

A sprawling web of violence across America has been linked to a fringe group of radical Berkeley pseudo-intellectuals known as the Zizians.

In 2018, lightning struck Dolores Hewitt’s front porch in downtown Wilmington, in the midst of Hurricane Florence. The roof ...

In the foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, a nondescript white clapboard house has become one of the most popular restaurants in rural Stokes County: Luna’s Mexican Kitchen.