The state House will take up a technical corrections bill that eliminates the legislature's Child Fatality Task Force today. The Senate will hold a skeleton Continue Reading
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Severe storms cause power outages in Wake
Over 3,000 Duke Progress Energy customers in Wake County were without power Thursday evening after severe storms moved through the Triangle. Continue Reading
Revised rules for rehabbing factories head to governor despite objections
Proponents of the measure say it will help bring jobs to now-abandoned industrial buildings. But opponents of the measure say it was rushed-through with hard-to-understand Continue Reading
Officials: Two of three suspects in Durham bus prank surrender to authorities
Two teenagers who police say placed a bottle that exploded on a Bull City Connector bus Tuesday turned themselves in, and investigators may have caught Continue Reading
State could help owners find lost savings bonds
The state would be able to hold abandoned U.S. savings bonds and try to return them to their owners under a measure approved by the Continue Reading
Man shot on Fisher Street in Raleigh
A man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg after Raleigh police responded to a shooting on Fisher Street near Poole Road, authorities said. The Continue Reading
Judge rejects bid for new trial in ‘Fatal Vision’ case
A federal judge on Thursday denied a motion for a new trial for Jeffrey MacDonald, the Army surgeon who was convicted of killing his pregnant Continue Reading
UNC professor dies after Chapel Hill mugging
A professor at the University of North Carolina died Thursday morning after being mugged on a Chapel Hill street during a lunchtime walk Wednesday, police Continue Reading
Prosecutors link stolen Mercedes to Duke grad student’s death
Prosecutors contend that Laurence Lovette was driving a silver Mercedes Benz when he withdrew money from slain Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato's checking account Continue Reading
Man dies in trench collapse at Fort Bragg
A trench collapse Thursday that killed a construction worker on Fort Bragg is so precarious that emergency workers must use their hands and buckets to Continue Reading
