Medicaid expansion means North Carolina's working poor can go to the doctor for free. It also means billions in new federal funding for hospitals.

After 14 years, billions to flow as 600,000 qualify for Medicaid insurance in NC

More than half a million North Carolinians now qualify for Medicaid 

Students are reported for possession of non-firearm weapons about 20 times as often as they are for firearms. But schools are still relatively safe places, and many crime statistics in schools have been improving for years, experts say. 

Easy to conceal, harder to detect: Knives more prevalent than guns in schools 

School lockers 

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A proposal for a new tax credit for redeveloping old houses, factories and warehouses into new office and residential space passed the House last week, but House members held a news conference Tuesday morning to continue to press the matter as the legislation moves to the Senate.

Pressure ramped up on Senate to pass historic tax credit

historic building, historic tax credit

 To commemorate the 10th anniversary of a sting operation that recovered North Carolina's original copy of the Bill of Rights, the historic document made a rare appearance Monday as lawmakers held a session in its honor.

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Pressure ramped up on Senate to pass historic tax credit

NC copy of Bill of Rights makes rare public appearance