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Garner police responding to a welfare call found two people dead in a house Saturday morning.Click to Continue »

Ronald Carnes escaped prison in 1973 and avoided detection for four decades. Now the 69-year-old is back in a North Carolina prison, but relatives and friends say the time he…Click to Continue »

The NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ Prairie Ridge Ecostation in West Raleigh plays host to activities for all ages, including this Saturday’s presentation about controlled burns.Click to Continue »

Human rights activist Manzoor Cheema has won a humanitarian award for his efforts to promote social justice.Click to Continue »

North Carolina hospitals have sharply curtailed their use of a controversial practice – filing lawsuits against patients who don’t pay their bills.Click to Continue »

Parents, students and police immersed themselves in the subfreezing waters of Lake Raleigh at NC State in a Polar Plunge fundraiser for the NC Special Olympics.Click to Continue »

Angel Wilson, the bride, has one of the better I-Told-You-So warnings: “Remember what happened the last time you cheated on me?” Indirectly, Alan Gell’s jilting of Wilson led Gell to…Click to Continue »

Craig Stephen Hicks, accused of murdering three students, had been monitoring use of his parking space for years in the Chapel Hill Finley Forest complex, which was getting extra traffic…Click to Continue »

A Republican-controlled UNC board committee’s recommendation to abolish the UNC-Chapel Hill Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, headed by Gene Nichol, can be seen as another episode in a long…Click to Continue »

A fire destroyed one home and spread to another house before crews got it under control early Saturday morning, ABC11 reports.Click to Continue »