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April 18, 2008 - One-Stop Early Voting started yesterday in North Carolina, and early reports show that thousands of voters seized the opportunity. According to the Raleigh News & Observer, 13,000 North Carolinians made it to the polls by the end of the day.

April 18, 2008 - In a groundbreaking study, the Environmental Working Group recently tested dogs and cats for levels of synthetic industrial chemicals. It found that companion animals were contaminated with 48 of 70 toxic chemicals tested -- 43 of them at levels higher than those typically found in humans.

April 18, 2008 - We recently brought you the story of Bob Dumas, a controversial disc jockey with Clear Channel's G-105 radio station in Raleigh, N.C.

April 17, 2008 - While President Bush serves up a too-little, too-late plan for addressing climate change, the South faces growing water problems as a consequence of global warming.

April 17, 2008 - Earlier this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that trailers the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided to families displaced by Hurricane Katrina were contaminated with dangerously high levels of formaldehyde.

April 17, 2008 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that two Kentucky death row inmates had not proven their case that executions by lethal injection posed an unacceptable risk of excruciating pain for the condemned.

April 16, 2008 - Two weeks after the arrest of eight people protesting Duke Energy's plans to build a new coal-fired power plant in western North Carolina, another group of activists w