Wour winning $1 million tickets are drawn in "Merry Millionaire Raffle" in nc-educationlottery.org. Five tickets are also drawn for $100,000 in prizes.

The North Carolina Museum of Art announced today it has received a gift in honor of Julia Jones Daniels, former chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Created and designed specifically for the Museum by artist Roxy Paine, Askew is a 43-foot tall hand-wrought, stainless steel tree.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads in Iowa, and Senator John Edwards overtakes Senator Barack Obama after the last debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, last Thursday, in Johnston, Iowa.

The range of artistic expressions by self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North is explored in a new exhibition that will be on display at Reynolda House Museum of Art in Winston-Salem from February 2 through April 13, 2008.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art opens a new special exhibition, on view through May 4, 2008. Shown in the historic house's West Bedroom Gallery, Wordplay: Text and Modern Art is based on several pieces in the Museum's collection and a loan courtesy of the Wake Forest University Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art.

North Carolina’s adolescents are the 5th most overweight in the nation, according to the fourth annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America report released today at the U.S. Southern Obesity Conference in Little Rock, Ark.

North Carolina's leading pharmacy chain takes fighting diabetes to the next level.

As Reynolda House Museum of American Art prepares to celebrate its fortieth anniversary in September 2007, a new exhibition will open in the historic house featuring six American masterpieces. The show, appropriately titled Forty Artful Years will remain on view through March 9, 2008.

The Duke Endowment has awarded Duke Divinity School $12 million to lead a wide-ranging effort that aims to assess, track and improve the health of every United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced Tuesday.

Tournament officials for the Sybase Classic presented by ShopRite have announced that Briana Vega, the winner of Golf Channel's "Big Break VI: Trump National"show has accepted a sponsor's exemption to the 2007 Tournament. The 18th annual LPGA event runs May 14 - 20, 2007 at a new host venue, Upper Montclair Country Club.

Fewer big sharks in the oceans led to the destruction of North Carolina's bay scallop fishery and inhibits the recovery of depressed scallop, oyster and clam populations along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science.