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North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan said Wednesday she backs marriage rights for same-sex couples, joining a growing number of Democratic Party politicians ahead of her re-election race next year.

The pastor of a Methodist church in North Carolina says he will no longer marry heterosexual couples until same-sex couples can also legally marry.

A gay man from Raleigh, N.C., alleges a taxi drive called him and his friends "faggots" before trying to run him down. A witness, however, claims the group was harassing the driver.

After dining at a local cafe, a North Carolina lesbian couple were startled to be handed a letter from the restaurant’s owner that that condemned homosexuality.

A young gay man from North Carolina has been charged with murdering a 43-year-old man in an Alabama trailer park.

A 22-year-old man has filed a complaint against a North Carolina-based church for keeping him hostage for four months because he is gay.

The Queen City - named after the wife of King George II, who ruled the colonies - is best known as a business city, home to Duke Energy and the place where Hugh McColl started a small bank, which grew to become the Bank of America.

Delegates in town for the convention, which begins Sept. 3, will find several places in and around Charlotte where they can soak up a little political history.

A humanist group is claiming the state of North Carolina violated the First Amendment by allowing voting in churches that advocated anti-gay political stances.

A California church set up a billboard in North Carolina after the state’s voters voted to approve a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.