After the 2023-24 school year, most of the nearly 44,000 third graders who were at risk of retention used other pathways to ...

President-elect Donald Trump, for his part, has transformed from skeptic to friend of crypto. Calling it “a scam against the ...

Governor Roy Cooper announced boards and commissions appointments, according to a press release from the governor's office.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager and his longtime economic advisor, for the ...

If confirmed, Bessent, who is married to former New York City prosecutor John Freeman, would be the first openly gay Treasury Secretary in US history. Hedge fund executive Scott Bessent survived ...

John Freeman, a former prosecutor in New York City, is openly gay and stated in an interview that he had aspirations of attending the Naval Academy as a young man, but he decided to not hide his ...

Independence lawyer and former Jackson County politician John Carnes pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion Monday in ...

An Independence attorney and former Jackson County legislator could be headed to prison for the second time after pleading ...

An attorney and former elected official in Independence connected to two Independence utility projects that faced years of ...