By ERIK VERDUZCO Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jillian Myers knows the devastation of losing a husband and feeling alone and empty, particularly on Valentine’s Day. Her husband, Jason Myers, was working as a…

By ALLEN G. BREED, GARY D. ROBERTSON AND PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Is it an honor or a cynical end run? When it comes to the former — and apparently future…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg and said Tuesday that there will…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years. One indicator of flu activity…

By ALLEN G. BREED and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. (AP) — Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists. That…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Army captain who died in Wednesday’s midair collision of a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet was “brilliant and fearless”…