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A Raleigh man who is being evicted from his apartment tricked a woman of out $2,800 to sublet it earlier this month and tried to get $545 by offering to…Click to Continue »

Morrisville police closed NC 54 between Weston and Aviation parkways Friday morning after a concrete mixer overturned and spilled some its load onto the pavement.Click to Continue »

The American public and U.S. scientists are light-years apart on science issues. And 98 percent of surveyed scientists say it's a problem that we don't know what they're talking about.Click to Continue »

The Brunswick County Sheriff's Office says a woman faces an animal cruelty charge after officials removed 27 animals from her home.Click to Continue »

A Durham County Superior Court judge decided Thursday that Duke University will have to hand over hundreds of additional documents to plaintiffs in the 4-year-old medical research fraud case centered…Click to Continue »

Two twin sisters called 911 Thursday afternoon and told an emergency dispatcher that three girls, armed with a handgun and Taser, robbed them of a cellphone.Click to Continue »

In a hearing Friday, opponents of a state election overhaul will argue that lawmakers overstepped the bounds of the N.C. Constitution with the 2013 actions.Click to Continue »

Parents have been complaining at least since the 1990s about the proliferation of school testing, which they say limits classroom creativity and puts too much pressure on children. Now superintendents…Click to Continue »

With a long election year ahead, Raleigh's elected officials spent hours on Thursday grappling with the city's growth, talking about the future and trying to make nice with each other…Click to Continue »

Sen. Richard Burr kicked off fundraising for his 2016 re-election campaign with an event in Washington Wednesday night that brought in more than $1 million. That's a record for a…Click to Continue »