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  • The House still wants to give motorists the option to drive I-95 for free if it is ever tolled.
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  • North Carolina State Legislative Office Building
  • A bill banning private insurers from offering abortion coverage through future online marketplaces has cleared the House.
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  • A Tea Party hero was in Raleigh Thursday talking tax reform to Republican leaders and the Tea Party faithful.
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  • Grover Norquist, a Tea Party hero, was in Raleigh Thursday talking tax reform to Republican leaders and the Tea Party faithful.
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  • Obama says treasury secretary requested and received resignation of acting IRS commissioner.
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  • North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr is stoking the flames threatening the Obama administration.
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  • The White House is releasing 100 pages of e-mails and notes related to the Obama administration's response to the attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi.
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  • House floor
  • A bill broadening protections for medical professionals who refuse to participate in an abortion has been approved by a committee.
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  • North Carolina redistricting map
  • Attorneys in North Carolina's redistricting lawsuits will return to court early next month because a three-judge panel wants to hear more evidence.
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  • Public education advocates say proposals in the General Assembly would deal a major blow to a system that's already hurting.
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  • They don't have an invitation, but some lawmakers say they are going to meet with McCrory whether he wants to or not.
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  • They don't have an invitation, but some lawmakers say they are going to meet with McCrory whether he wants to or not.
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  • Health
  • Some North Carolina lawmakers want to force teens to get their parent's notarized consent for some treatments
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  • Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has won his old congressional seat.
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  • North Carolina State Legislative Office Building
  • House Republicans seeking to further restrict abortions have passed a bill barring the procedures on the basis of gender.
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  • Proposed legislation which would include an exemption for judges and clerks of court from limits on where they can carry concealed weapons passed the House.
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  • Budweiser beer
  • A bill relaxing rules for selling beer to seated fans at stadiums statewide has passed the state House.
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  • NC 540
  • Three contentious turnpike projects are no longer included in Gov. McCrory's transportation plans.
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  • Republicans have rolled out the frame of their tax overhaul plan they say will cut income tax while expanding the sales tax.
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  • Local school boards could have the authority to create charter schools and form more flexible arrangements with district-run schools.
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  • New N.C. Board of Elections members took office Wednesday and voted on board's chairman, executive director.
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  • Lt. Gov. Dan Forest
  • Folks got a look at Dan Forest in campaign ads before the election, but since then he's been all but invisible to the public.
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  • There are new details about the money scandal involving former Gov. Perdue's campaign.
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  • Dorothea Dix from the air.
  • The debate over the Dorothea Dix land lease was back at center stage Monday.
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  • North Carolina State Legislative Office Building
  • Speaker's office says bill that asserts North Carolina has the power to set a state religion is dead on arrival
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  • Governor McCrory announces his Medicaid reform plan
  • Governor says administration won't forget about North Carolina's most vulnerable citizens
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  • Group doesn't want bill that would essentially restart executions in North Carolina
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  • Groups urging state legislature to back off legislation that would end same-day registration during the early voting period
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  • Early voting could be scaled back if NC Republicans gets their way.
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  • Governor Pat McCrory
  • Bosses for state Highway Patrol, Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement, and State Capitol Police picked
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  • Dorothea Dix from the air.
  • Supporters compare proposal for former mental hospital land to Central Park in New York or Piedmont Park in Atlanta.
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  • Senator Kay Hagan
  • US Senator Kay Hagan today released the following statement:
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  • The House has passed a huge stopgap spending bill to keep the government open through the end of September
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  • Gov. Pat McCrory released his first two-year state budget proposal Wednesday
  • New governor calls for no new debt, no new tax increases, and a surplus at end of first year
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  • Senator Kay Hagan
  • In the wake of sequestration, the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps have decided to suspend tuition assistance benefits
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  • Kieran Shanahan
  • The man at the head of the state's largest agency outlines the problems he's found so far.
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  • Kieran Shanahan
  • ABC11 gets an early look at plan to make schools safer in wake of Sandy Hook attack.
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  • Money transferred from other areas, salary increases frozen, purchases and travel expenses cut.
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  • Governor Pat McCrory
  • Money transferred from other areas, salary increases frozen, purchases and travel expenses cut.
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  • Governor Pat McCrory
  • Money transferred from other areas, salary increases frozen, purchases and travel expenses cut.
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  • Group continues to fight proposal in the General Assembly to require picture ID to vote.
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  • John Brennan
  • John Brennan has won Senate confirmation to head the CIA.
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  • The measure prevents the state from participating in parts of the federal health care overhaul
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  • Lawmakers plan public hearings on contentious issue before filing a bill
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  • President Obama is seen discussing the sequester cuts on Friday, March 1, 2013.
  • The sequester's $85 billion spending cuts have people across the nation worried
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  • In his first in-depth interview since taking office, Gov. McCrory looks at the challenges and rewards of his job.
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  • The measure prevents the state from participating in parts of the federal health care overhaul.
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  • North Carolina redistricting map
  • Critics claim Republicans packed black voters into districts, while GOP says that's what law requires.
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  • Pat McCrory
  • New North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signs his second bill into law under circumstances different from the first.
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  • North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory gave his first State of the State speech Monday evening.
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