How does a chili pepper make your mouth feel like its on fire? When you eat peppers, capsaicin molecules fit into the heat pain receptors of your mouth, sending a false signal to your brain that's ...

Donald Trump has won the North Carolina contest, NBC News projects, and secured the state’s 16 Electoral College votes. In 2020, Trump won North Carolina with 50% of the vote to Biden’s 49%.

The Panthers chose a local product, who was a star athlete at the University of North Carolina. Defensive end Julius Pepper was a physical specimen who dominated on the gridiron. The 6-foot-7 ...

On a rainy afternoon in Raleigh this week, the North Carolina House convened in a statehouse bedecked with tinsel and lights to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday enacted a law over the governor's veto that would diminish the powers afforded to his successor and other other Democratic statewide winners ...

It’s made with the Carolina Reaper, one of the world’s hottest peppers with a Scoville Heat Unit (SHU ... walked away with tattoos of chillies and the Dave’s chicken head logo. Despite the madness, ...

The clue to the potency of this weapons-grade concoction is in the name. The Tangreaper sauce uses Carolina Reaper peppers which have a Scoville heat rating of a staggering 1.6 million units ...

Saadia Group, which acquired the department store during a bankruptcy auction four years ago and ran it until early this year, in 2022 had replaced the familiar, idiosyncratic logo with a ...

Right before the start of a tour of the now-nearly completely restored Carolina Theatre in uptown Charlotte, project manager Sean Seifert held up a big piece of posterboard. On it was a large ...

HAMPTON — The sign reads “pizza” in the window of the Tideside Social Club — what owner Joey McCarran calls a “sneaky” way to guide locals to Hampton Beach’s newest takeout pizzeria.