Inspired by her husband’s green thumb, a North Carolina woman tried her luck on a digital lottery game. “I was spinning in circles,” Heather Jones told lottery officials after her big win. The Bear ...

Now that North Carolina and North Carolina State each have generated momentum this week, they'll try to take that to another level.

Another blast of winter storms is closing schools, snarling flights and putting millions of residents on alert across parts of the Deep South and south-central U.S.