North Carolina begs to differ. Along the mainland and on the Outer Banks, some view him as a gifted mariner, law-skirting entrepreneur, ... but the 300-plus Blackbeard items are the draw.

The weight of drawing the important events that happen in Western North Carolina is resting on their pencils. “Anything I can do to tamp down the rancor, the division that we have now between ...

A substitute teacher received a call that was “too good to be true” when she learned she’d won a massive prize in a second-chance drawing, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.