Myrick won re-election. 1990: CL asked readers to name Myrick's new, shorter hairdo. "La Pelt" came close, but the final winner was "Mein Coif." 1992: Myrick ran for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Terry Sanford. She lost the GOP primary to Lauch...

Being an Eagle is quite an accomplishment, requiring community service, 21 merit badges, a demonstration of leadership and passing a review board. It often is a forecast for success in life. North Carolina Eagles include the late former U.S. senator...

She joined the Army at age 18 and married a short time later. While in Frankfurt, Germany, she gave birth to her youngest son Jermaine on base in a an Army hospital. When he was 18 months old, they moved to Fayetteville, N.C. "We came back to Fort Bragg.

Among them: former state Supreme Court Justice I.Beverly Lake; former Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot;current UNC System President Tom Ross; Waste Industries founder and philanthropist Lonnie Poole; former Raleigh Mayor Tom Fetzer; and former governor...

N.C. — A group of anti-war organizations planned a protest Friday evening outside the Terry Sanford Federal Building in Raleigh to demonstrate opposition to American intervention in Iran. Raleigh is one of dozens of cities to see protests as rhetoric...

We want a plan, not lofty platitudes or carefully rehearsed sound-bytes but real solutions. In times past we have seen examples of this leadership from the likes of Kerr Scott, Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt. Rather than signaling defeat in November, as...