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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Gov. Mike Easley resorted to emergency powers and pulled $150 million from a state employee pension fund to help cover a state budget shortfall...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Gov. Mike Easley signed a bill Friday that will allow North Carolina's public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Displays of the Ten Commandments...
...Legislature on Thursday approved a bill allowing public schools to display the Ten Commandments, leaving it up to Gov. Mike Easley to decide whether to make it law. Displays of the Ten Commandments in schools have been repeatedly struck down by courts...
...About 500 guests rode shuttle buses to the museum site and were protected from the rain by a large white tent. Gov. Mike Easley was there to declare the day Billy Graham Appreciation Day. And the setting reminded Mayor Pat McCrory of the kind...
...plans for one, is facing increasing pressure to get in the game. With an $800 million budget shortfall, new Gov. Mike Easley is telling lawmakers a lottery may be the only way to finance court-ordered education reforms and school improvements...
...and headlines, she's increasingly been described as tough, determined, gritty, a fighter. North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley said Clinton made "Rocky Balboa look like a pansy." While Obama continues trying to remain calm no matter what rains...
...former Sen. Gordon Humphrey, who opposed the tax, and garnered 44 percent. In North Carolina, Attorney General Mike Easley defeated Republican Richard Vinroot, a former mayor of Charlotte, by 52 percent to 46 percent. Popular Democratic...
...governors couldn't make it here, because they were locked in budget crises with their legislatures. North Carolina's Mike Easley and Tennessee's Don Sundquist, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, had hundreds of demonstrators, egged...
...Carolina's may be even worse. Two-thirds of the monitored rivers in North Carolina have set record low flows and Gov. Mike Easley renewed his call Thursday for all communities in the state to cut water usage by 20 percent. He also ordered state...