South Carolina’s top prosecutor says he’s pleased with oral arguments before the nation’s highest court about why utilities and municipalities should stay out of a water dispute with North Carolina.

Sen. Edward Kennedy has died after a long battle with a brain tumor. He was 77. The youngest of the Kennedy brothers, he became perhaps the most powerful liberal voice in the U.S. Senate of his time.

Mayfield Dairy Farms has announced it is recalling containers of its Mayfield Homemade Vanilla Select Ice Cream because of possible ammonia contamination. The Birmingham-based company said the voluntary recall is for 1.5-quart containers of the ice cream. Ammonia contamination can cause headache, nausea, vomiting and irritation of the throat.

Tyler Hansbrough scored 28 points and
set the NCAA’s career free-throw shooting record in No. 4 North
Carolina’s 104-74 rout of Georgia Tech on Saturday.

A season-opening game at Paulson Stadium and the program’s first-ever game against Atlantic Coast Conference member University of North Carolina highlights Georgia Southern University’s 2009 Football schedule. Director of Athletics Sam Baker announced the schedule Friday.

Virginia, four other states, including South Carolina, and the federal government have agreed to take a regional approach to improving and expanding a roughly 1,000-mile segment of Interstate 95.

Killer tornadoes ripped through parts of North Carolina, Saturday, killing two people and injuring dozens more. Sunday, people were going through what’s left of their belongings. Yvette Yeon has more.

Officials say a cluster of strong thunderstorms in North Carolina produced tornadoes that killed two people, and authorities are searching for a missing child.  State police spokeswoman Patty McQuillan says a woman was found dead in the wreckage of her home early Saturday in the community of Kenly, which is about 35 miles southeast of Raleigh. Authorities say the woman’s son is missing.

Several national news organizations declared Barack Obama the winner of North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes, on Thursday.

It was almost one year ago, on October 28th, when seven college students from South Carolina died in a North Carolina beach house fire. Now, friends and family members are remembering the victims, with new events to raise money for scholarships, in their honor. The first Carolina Remembrance Concert was Thursday night, in Columbia. It was to include a slide show to remember the six USC students, and one Clemson student, who died in the Ocean Isle beach fire, last year. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has an exclusive interview with one of the survivors of that fire, about the last year for him, and what he wants everyone to know about the victims.

A Georgia grandmother charged in the death of one of her five dead husbands has been released from a North Carolina jail. Authorities said 76-year-old Betty Neumar posted bond Thursday at the Stanly County jail, where she was being held on a $300,000 bond.