Colleen Jenkins

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina's effort to become the first state to compensate people subjected to involuntary sterilizations failed when legislators passed a $20.2 billion budget on Thursday...

(Reuters) - The largest Protestant denomination is poised to elect the first black president in its 167-year history, just weeks after the predominately white religious group reprimanded one of its...

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A civil liberties group filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging North Carolina's prohibition against same-sex couples adopting each other's children. The ban on so-called...

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - The Justice Department dropped its criminal case against former U.S. Senator John Edwards on Wednesday, closing the book on a prosecution that had threatened the...

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A civil liberties group filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging North Carolina's prohibition against same-sex couples adopting each other's children. The ban on so-called...

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - The Justice Department dropped its criminal case against former U.S. Senator John Edwards on Wednesday, closing the book on a prosecution that had threatened the...

(Reuters) - As a highly successful lawyer and a fast-rising politician, John Edwards grew accustomed to people voting for him. With his boyish looks and a sincere demeanor, he won...

GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The alternate jurors in former U.S. Senator John Edwards' federal trial learned on Wednesday they could to return to their normal lives as deliberations dragged...