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As Charlotteans gear up for Thanksgiving travel this week, the air travelers will see more parking, higher fees; while drivers will face detours and gas price increases.

Sarah Palin, the hottest name in the Republican Party, took a detour from her book-signing tour Sunday to dine with Billy Graham at his mountaintop home in Montreat.

Bank of America executive David Darnell is stepping into a key role for the Charlotte Chamber in 2010, tasked with revving up optimism in a city where it's been in short supply.

An Appalachian State University student from Matthews was killed in Boone early Sunday in what police say was an accidental shooting at an off-campus party.

Bell ringers collecting spare change in red kettles have been a holiday symbol in Charlotte for over a century.

Iran's army and Revolutionary Guard staged large-scale air defense war games on Sunday in an effort to show off the country's deterrence capabilities amid rising pressure from the West over its nuclear program, state television reported.

Jaws are dropping all over Hollywood: "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," an inexpensive sequel from a three-year-old independent studio, sold a supernatural $140.7 million in tickets over the weekend in North American theaters.

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The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

The Department of Homeland Security has spent $230 million to develop a better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs but has had to stop deploying the new machines because the United States has run out of a crucial raw material, experts say.

Gov. Bev Perdue has done some good things since taking office in January.

Democrats had little time to savor their weekend Senate health care victory, as two lawmakers who voted to move the debate forward Saturday night indicated Sunday they won't vote for the package if it includes a government-run insurance program.

Smokers have tried a long list of ways to quit: cold turkey, counseling, gum, patches and more.

From an editorial published in the Fayetteville Observer on Nov. 20: Was someone cooking the books? And is that a standard operating procedure in our public schools?

A month of harsh words between Rep.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, is paralyzed from the chest down and doctors believe his paralysis will be permanent, Hasan's lawyer said Sunday.

Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on decaying matter that cascades down, snowlike, as well as sunken whale bones, according to a report released Sunday.

In response to "BofA ends retiree match for nonprofits" (Nov. 20):

Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it.