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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Tuesday's primary elections in North Carolina (all times local):
10:55 p.m.
The race to succeed Roy Cooper as North Carolina attorney general will be between two sitting state senators.
Democrat Josh Stein and Republican Buck Newton won their primaries Tuesday, turning back competitive rivals. With most precincts reporting, both Stein and Newton held 10 percentage-point leads over their primary rivals. Stein ran against Marcus Williams of Lumberton and Newton competed against Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill.
Stein spent eight years as Cooper's deputy for consumer protection before being elected to the Senate in 2008. Newton is a Wilson attorney who leads a key Senate judiciary committee.
Cooper won the Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday.
10:35 p.m.
More primary candidates for Council of State races have advanced to the general election.
Dan Blue III of Raleigh won the Democratic nomination for state treasurer Tuesday beating Ron Elmer in unofficial results.
Mark Johnson, a member of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Board of Education, won a three-candidate Republican primary for superintendent of public instruction and will face Democratic incumbent June Atkinson, who easily won her primary.
Former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker had close to 60 percent of the vote while winning the Democratic primary for labor commissioner over Mazie Ferguson of Greensboro. He'll take on Republican incumbent Cherie Berry.
Mike Causey of Greensboro is the Republican nominee for insurance commissioner for the fifth time by beating two other rivals. He has never won the general election and will face Democratic commissioner Wayne Goodwin.
9:50 p.m.
Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in North Carolina.
His victory Tuesday comes after an earlier win in Florida and increases his delegate lead over the rest of the Republican field.
That field shrank by one on Tuesday as Marco Rubio dropped out. But John Kasich captured his first victory of the nominating contest by winning his home state of Ohio, nabbing all 66 delegates there.
Ted Cruz has yet to win a state Tuesday.
9:35 p.m.
North Carolina voters have agreed to borrow $2 billion for repairs, renovations and new buildings at universities and community colleges.
The bond package overwhelmingly approved Tuesday also will pay for local water and sewer projects and construction on state parks, National Guard buildings and the North Carolina Zoo.
Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Democratic former Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton joined up to push the package. They said North Carolina hasn't had a statewide bond package since 2000, and the rapidly growing state has added 2 million people to become the ninth largest in the country.
McCrory says that kind of growth requires more money spent on infrastructure.
Opponents say the state didn't need to borrow the money for important projects, and some on the list weren't necessary.
9 p.m.
North Carolina's fall U.S. Senate election will pit two-term Republican incumbent Richard Burr of Winston-Salem against Democrat Deborah Ross, a former state House member from Raleigh.
Burr and Ross won their respective primaries Tuesday. Burr received held a 2-to-1 margin over Cary obstetrician Greg Brannon in partial, unofficial results. Larry Holmquist and Paul Wright also ran for the GOP nomination.
Ross had received two-thirds of the votes counted, followed by Spring Lake Mayor Chris Rey, Durham staffing company owner Kevin Griffin and U.S. Army veteran Ernest Reeves of Greenville.
Burr served previously in the U.S. House. He's now chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and highlighted national security issues during the primary. Ross took in the most campaign money among the four Democrats and received high-profile endorsements.
8:45 p.m.
Attorney General Roy Cooper has won the Democratic gubernatorial primary, setting up a general election battle with Republican incumbent Pat McCrory.
Cooper led Durham lawyer Ken Spaulding on Tuesday. Cooper had about 70 percent of the vote in partial, unofficial results.
Cooper has been attorney general since 2001. His state political career began when he was elected in 1986 to the state House from Nash County. He's been critical of McCrory and Republicans leading the legislature, saying they have rolled the state backward on education and voting rights and should have expanded Medicaid.
Spaulding announced his bid for governor in 2013 and said Cooper was wrong to defend laws passed by the General Assembly that mandated photo identification to vote and pulled back on early voting.
8:30 p.m.
Gov. Pat McCrory has won the Republican primary for governor.
Partial, unofficial results Tuesday showed McCrory with more than 80 percent of the vote. Former state Rep. Robert Brawley of Mooresville and Charles Kenneth Moss of Randleman received the rest.
McCrory's victory was expected, although Brawley had hoped to capitalize on unhappiness with construction of toll lanes on Interstate 77 by the governor's administration.
McCrory is a former Charlotte mayor who defeated Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton in the 2012 general election. His campaign anticipated a general election clash with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper.
The governor highlights the state's improved economic picture, tax reductions and government efficiencies during his three years in office in seeking re-election.
8:15 p.m.
Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic presidential primary in North Carolina, adding to her run of victories in the South over rival Bernie Sanders.
Clinton's win in North Carolina was her second victory on Tuesday, following a triumph in Florida.
She has dominated Sanders in the South, previously capturing wins in South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Clinton has a significant delegate lead over Sanders, who has turned in stronger showings in the Midwest and other Western states.
North Carolina will also be considered a key battleground state in the general election. President Barack Obama won the state in 2008 but lost it to Mitt Romney four years later.
7:30 p.m.
Polls have closed across North Carolina except in two locations that the State Board of Elections has allowed to stay open an extra 30 minutes because of problems earlier in the day.
Voters across the state chose party candidates for president, governor and U.S. Senate on down to legislative and county seats.
They also had to decide whether to approve the state borrowing $2 billion for construction projects for higher education and parks and for local governments to improve water and wastewater systems.
More than 700,000 people had already cast ballots before Tuesday and election officials said turnout was steady across the state the entire day.
7:20 p.m.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections has told officials to keep two precincts open beyond the 7:30 p.m. primary closing time statewide.
The board agreed Tuesday evening to 30-minute extensions at precincts in Edgecombe and Cabarrus counties.
Officials say the Edgecombe precinct was shut down in the mid-afternoon because the Rocky Mount elementary school where the precinct is located was locked down due to reports of an adult with a gun on the campus.
State elections director Kim Strach says the Cabarrus precinct opened about 45 minutes late Tuesday morning because the chief judge didn't arrive on time.
6:15 p.m.
A voting precinct at an Edgecombe County elementary school has closed and re-opened after a local election official reports there was a safety issue on the campus.
Edgecombe elections director Jerry Spruell told state elections officials Tuesday that the precinct at D.S. Johnson Elementary School was shut down for about 30 minutes in the afternoon after reports of an adult with a gun at the school. The precinct was reopened shortly after 4 p.m.
Spruell is asking the State Board of Elections to permit the precinct to stay open past the statewide 7:30 p.m. closing time. The state board was expected to meet early Tuesday evening to discuss whether time extensions at some precincts are warranted.
2:15 p.m.
Officials with the State Board of Elections say they've heard about slight delays at voting precincts in four counties.
Spokeswoman Jackie Hyland says the counties are Catawba, Cabarrus, Haywood and Rowan.
The board plans to hold an emergency public meeting by phone to consider extending closing times at precincts that opened more than 15 minutes late.
Board attorney Joshua Lawson said in a news release that the board will hold the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. State law says the elections board can extend the hours of polling places that open more than 15 minutes late or have interruptions of more than 15 minutes after opening. The extension would equal the time that the opening was delayed or voting was interrupted.
Polling places are supposed to open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.
1:20 p.m.
The State Board of Elections will hold an emergency public meeting by phone to consider extending closing times at precincts that opened more than 15 minutes late.
Board attorney Joshua Lawson said in a news release that the board will hold the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. State law says the elections board can extend the hours of polling places that open more than 15 minutes late or have interruptions of more than 15 minutes after opening. The extension would equal the time that the opening was delayed or voting was interrupted.
Polling places are supposed to open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.
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12:20 p.m.
A spokeswoman for the North Carolina Board of Elections reports that turnout is brisk with few problems at polling places.
Spokeswoman Jackie Hyland says the board has received no reports of problems with the state's new voter identification law. The law requires that voters show a photo identification before getting their ballot.
The law does allow for some exemptions for people who were unable to get a photo ID.
Hyland said lines were long at a one-stop voting location in Durham, where only provisional ballots can be cast on Election Day. She says voters were advised to vote at their precinct if they could cast a regular ballot.
8:30 a.m.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is backing away from a suggestion that he might cover legal costs for a supporter who was involved in an altercation with another person at a rally last week in North Carolina.
In a telephone interview Tuesday with ABC's "Good Morning America," Trump was asked about a series of violent incidents at his campaign events and repeated his statement that he doesn't "condone violence."
At the rally last week in Fayetteville, an older white Trump supporter was caught on video punching a younger African-American protester as police led the protester away. The supporter, 78-year-old John Franklin McGraw, was later charged with assault and disorderly conduct.
Trump suggested afterward that he might help the supporter, saying he'd asked his staff to look into it.
But he reversed field in Tuesday's interview, saying, "I never said I was going to pay for fees." Asked if it had appeared he was encouraging violence with his initial statement, Trump replied, "Well, maybe so. Maybe that's why I wouldn't do it."
6:30 a.m.
The polls are now open across North Carolina for voters to choose primary election favorites for president, governor and U.S. Senate on down to legislative and county seats.
Registered voters Tuesday also get to decide whether the state should borrow $2 billion for construction projects for higher education and parks and for local governments to improve water and wastewater systems.
More than 700,000 people had already cast ballots before Tuesday. The 10-day in-person early-voting period ended Saturday.
This primary is two months earlier than usual because lawmakers wanted North Carolina to have more influence in choosing the president. There are no primary runoffs this year because the election schedule was getting complicated with congressional primary elections delayed until June.
The polls close at 7:30 p.m.
4:40 a.m.
North Carolina voters were excited about increased emphasis on the state because of an earlier presidential primary Tuesday combined with a dramatic race.
The state traditionally held its presidential primaries in May in past years, but legislative leaders decided in 2013 to move the date up.
Andy Taylor, a political science professor at N.C. State University, said the still-competitive nature of the primaries should increase voter turnout Tuesday in North Carolina.
The State Board of Elections says 684,500 people voted at early voting sites statewide before they closed Saturday afternoon, setting a record.
Although Florida and Ohio are seen as Tuesday's biggest prizes, North Carolina also offers a hefty cache of delegates and has hosted numerous appearances by candidates and their surrogates.
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