RALEIGH, (AP) — Senate Republicans say ever-rising costs for Medicaid are siphoning away money in North Carolina government that could be used to help public education and law enforcement and raise employee pay. Senate budget-writers discussed Monday their proposed two-year state budget being…

RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - A daily tracking poll of likely voters shows that President Obama's job approval rating is below 50 percent. The Rasmussen Reports daily poll shows that 48 percent of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Fifty percent (50%) now…

RALEIGH, (AP) — A former North Carolina lawmaker is set to face a jury over accusations he used a pair of government-funded non-profit corporations as personal piggy banks. Stephen A. LaRoque is will go on trial Monday on a dozen felony charges. Federal prosecutors allege the Kinston…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly. Gary Pruitt on Sunday called…

ATLANTA (AP) — President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives. The…