RALEIGH, N.C. — A criminal case against a poultry processor accused of intentionally dumping untreated turkey remains into waterways is advancing unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in. A 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order issued Friday clears the ...

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Under Armour Inc. is suing a North Carolina-based company, claiming it is using similar logos and name derivatives. The Baltimore sportswear maker filed the suit last week in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, charging that Purple Armour, of Charlotte, N.C., ...

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SALISBURY — Perdue Farms Inc. says it plans to layoff about 100 employees at the end of next month. Perdue, based in Salisbury, has hired North Carolina-based subcontractor Unicon to employ chicken catchers at its processing plants in Georgetown, Del., ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in a grisly 2004 ambush on the restive streets of Iraq. U.S. District Judge ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether he had other practices that pushed the bounds ...

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NEW YORK — Duke Energy Corp. is buying Progress Energy Inc. for more than $13 billion in stock in a deal that would create the utility with the most customers in the United States. The new company’s size will allow ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — The growth in bankruptcies around the country slowed significantly in 2010 from its breakneck pace in recent years, with about a dozen states recording a decline in filings from consumers and businesses, according to an Associated Press ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her own health and marriage publicly crumbled, died Tuesday after a six-year struggle with cancer. She ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A journalism instructor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill has resigned amid allegations he sent sexually explicit text messages to a female student. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Monty Cook ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — There’s the George Washington made famous in the Gilbert Stuart portrait found in many elementary schools and, in engraved fashion, on the $1-dollar bill: a severe man, whose severity is accentuated by thin, taut lips. And then, ...

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