Beverly Perdue

States along the East Coast were pummeled as Superstorm Sandy came crashing ashore. The storm officially made landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey Monday night, but it is affecting a much wider area. By early Tuesday, more than 7.5 million...

It's No Secret ... That Gov. Tom Corbett's been getting some pretty bad polling news over the last couple of weeks. But he can take comfort in at least one thing: He's about as unpopular as fellow governors in other......

A state Senate panel has approved legislation that would ban the use of hydraulic fracturing in California until regulators write rules governing the controversial procedure....

TALLAHASSEE — Because one poll has absolutely no statistical relevance to another other poll produced through different sampling and weighting methodologies, please take this most recent poll for what it's worth — very little, beyond a...

North Carolina death penalty: The North Carolina legislature will be called into session after the holidays to consider whether to override Gov. Beverly Perdue's veto of a bill that some say would have gutted a law that seeks to correct racial disparities...

In North Carolina early Thursday morning, Republicans in the state Legislature used an after-hours maneuver to strip the state’s largest teachers union of automatic deductions of union dues from members’ paychecks....

North Carolina sterilization: A North Carolina task force has voted to compensate people sterilized against their will. The Legislature must still approve the payments, but the vote marks the first time a state has moved to compensate such victims....

Death penalty bias: North Carolina legislators have approved a bill that critics say would effectively repeal a 2009 law that allows death-row inmates to use statistics on racial bias to challenge their prosecutions....

In a blow to Los Angeles' below-the-line community, Marvel Studios will take its next "Iron Man" movie to Wilmington, North Carolina....

Martin O'Malley was selected by his peers Wednesday to chair the Democratic Governors Association, a platform from which he says he will build the party and promote candidates who will invest in education and infrastructure. "Our agenda is one of...

Republicans flipped North Carolina, a state that hasn't elected a GOP governor since the 1980s, expanding their national lead over Democrats at the statehouse level, according to CNN projections. Eleven states held governors' races Tuesday. Democrats...

This year's drought, along with recent news reports of the lowest corn yield in 17 years, has rekindled the food vs. fuel debate — and, for good reasons. When Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act in 2007, an ambitious schedule...