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The Justice Department is stepping up scrutiny of the increasingly cozy ties between candidates and their outside allies, a move that could jolt the freewheeling campaign-finance atmosphere ahead of the…Click to Continue »

As part of Duke’s “Passion for Flamenco” series, the Spanish dance company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana will have its final performance Sunday night.Click to Continue »

Cheryl Thomas, former admissions director of the UNC-Chapel Hill graduate school, said she was asked repeatedly to admit athletes who hadn’t applied on time, hadn’t taken the GRE or didn’t…Click to Continue »

Williamson Greenhouses of Clinton is hoping to change the economics of farming with the CropBox, a shipping container equipped with a hydroponic growing and software monitoring system.Click to Continue »

A private Facebook post this week ignited a campaign to defend breastfeeding laws and take a local pizza shop to task for allegedly ignoring them.Click to Continue »

Rohan Sachdev, 11, representing Cary Homeschoolers, won the 2015 Wake County Spelling Bee. It was the fifth time Rohan had qualified for the county event.Click to Continue »

CJ Scarlett, a former victims’ advocate for the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office, has patented a device that will call police and record video footage when its wearer yells for…Click to Continue »

There is a debate within North Carolina Republican Party circles on whether to stick with the February date for presidential primaries or to move it back to March 1, which…Click to Continue »

As the weather slowly warmed Saturday in Raleigh, trash trucks rolled, the power flickered back in the last darkened homes and nonprofits tended to those isolated by last week’s snow…Click to Continue »

Thousands of children in the region rely on school for at least one meal a day and losing eight days of school meals put a strain on many families. Local…Click to Continue »