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A public meeting about a controversial North Raleigh rezoning on Tuesday ended with acrimony and calls for Chairman Steve Schuster to apologize for “ejecting” a resident.Click to Continue »

Charlie Smoak, a former Moore County magistrate, has filed a lawsuit in Wake County court challenging state court officials who contend that magistrates must perform gay marriages as part of…Click to Continue »

A Wakefield High School teaching assistant was arrested Tuesday afternoon on three counts of having sex with an 18-year-old Wakefield student late in 2014 and this year.Click to Continue »

A new poll says Democrats in the state legislature have a lower approval rating than the Republican majority – and both are unpopular overall. A Public Policy Polling survey of…Click to Continue »

Durham police and U.S. Marshals arrested a 34-year-old man Tuesday on charges that he killed his 3-month-old daughter last month.Click to Continue »

A Wake Forest man was being held on $1 million bail Wednesday on drug-trafficking charges after town police stopped him on the street.Click to Continue »

Business and political groups are weighing in on a push by Senate Republicans to cut North Carolina’s gas tax by 2.5 cents in March, establish 35 cents as a tax…Click to Continue »

Police in Wendell charged a man with felony possession of heroin, marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, a prescription stimulant and a prescription anti-anxiety drug after arresting him at a South Hollybrook Road…Click to Continue »

What people are saying about the shooting deaths of three students in Chapel Hill…Click to Continue »

The Twitter hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter has erupted online. Triangle Muslims ask for greater tolerance to combat what they describe as a growing anti-Muslim furor…Click to Continue »