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With North Carolina’s flu season ebbing, state health officials said Thursday that the virus had claimed six more lives last week, fewer than half the toll the week before and…Click to Continue »

Edward Cooper Outlaw got a GPS-linked ankle monitor when he was released on parole last September, and a Raleigh police detective used data from it to charge him with stealing…Click to Continue »

Protesters staged a "die-in" Thursday afternoon at the Legislative Building to protest the state decision not to expand Medicaid and to promote a march set for Saturday in Raleigh. Seventeen…Click to Continue »

Legislators will have an estimated $540.8 million in wiggle room - money available to spend on new budget priorities or to relieve "budget pressures" this year, according to an analysis…Click to Continue »

A 31-year-old man was brought from Virginia to Raleigh on Thursday afternoon to face a murder charge in the October 2013 death of a 6-month-old boy.Click to Continue »

Police have charged two men with armed hold-ups at sweepstakes parlors in Raleigh and Garner and a bingo parlor in Raleigh.Click to Continue »

Corinth Holders High School gymnast Lydia Davis broke her back during a competition last year but has returned to the sport she loves.Click to Continue »

The Wake County school system is hoping to boost student achievement by increasing efforts to train teachers, principals and assistant principals on how to relate better to families from all…Click to Continue »

Inside the Chapel Hill church where Dean Smith had a regular seat on the back row, family, friends and former players gathered privately Thursday to celebrate the coach whose fight,Click to Continue »

Sen. Joel Ford, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, asked fellow senators on Thursday not to confuse today's Democrats with those who controlled the chamber for decades. He explains.Click to Continue »