CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- The state of North Carolina agreed to pay a $750,000 settlement to a wrongful death claim filed by the family of a UNC-Chapel Hill physics professor who was shot and killed on campus in 2023.

The Wytheville Police Department is commending one of their own for finding a missing North Carolina man who had been presumed dead.

Peat bogs have huge potential to store planet-warming carbon. The ones in North Carolina just need some help to get healthy again.