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The driver of a pickup truck was trying to get through a yellow traffic light at a high-rate of speed on Six Forks Road last month when he collided with…Click to Continue »

The Powerball jackpot winner in North Carolina is likely to pay the state more than $7 million in taxes. That amount won’t smooth out an expected shortfall in this year’s…Click to Continue »

Wake County school administrators are weighing whether to recommend converting Highcroft Drive Elementary School in Cary to the traditional calendar for the 2016-17 school year or to leave it on…Click to Continue »

An Amtrak train collided with a car Wednesday night at a Garner crossing where a maintenance crew had been working on crossing arms earlier in the day.Click to Continue »

For NC State freshman Abdul-Malik Abu, the three victims of Tuesday’s Chapel Hill shootings were not only friends but part of his connection to the Muslim community in his newly…Click to Continue »

On a campus that typically bustles with vitality and talk among youthful dreamers about life ahead, thousands gathered at nightfall Wednesday to mourn inexplicable loss.Click to Continue »

Legislators presented with Raleigh hospital's problem finding placements for mentally ill patients.Click to Continue »

The student and newlywed had planned a mission to Turkey this summer to give free dental treatment to Syrian refugees.Click to Continue »

The shooting of three Muslim students in a quiet Chapel Hill neighborhood Tuesday evening had become global news Wednesday morning, sparked mostly by emotional social media comments that began as…Click to Continue »

Sisters Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, and Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, of Raleigh were just starting their adult lives in an exuberant rush of charity work and scholarship.Click to Continue »