Republican Rep. Ted Budd has won the North Carolina Senate race, maintaining GOP control over the seat left open by retiring Sen. Richard Burr. Budd beat out Democrat Cheri Beasley, the first ...

Many of these allegations overlap with the U.S. Senate candidate’s tenure ... had its origins in 1963 when Budd’s father Richard bought “a struggling janitorial supply company” in Winston ...

Beasley, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court, would be North Carolina’s first Black senator if elected. Budd, a three-term ... He and his father also created a company to invest ...