The family of a 17-year-old girl who took her own life while in jail in 2017 has reached a preliminary agreement with Durham County that could result in changes to how the county detains juveniles while in custody.
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Holly Grove Middle School students are headed to New York City next Friday with a prototype they built of a sign that could make school bus stops safer for students and drivers. The group is competing in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest.
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Five years after Flint, Mich., became a national cautionary tale because of high lead levels in its drinking water, North Carolina still doesn’t require tests for lead, even at schools.
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Nearly two dozen homeowners in the Buffalo Creek subdivision near Zebulon are in the fight of their lives for their homes.
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A man was shot overnight Thursday in east Raleigh, police said.
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Family owned Wegmans, based in Rochester, New York, is expanding south and is poised to present stiff competition in the Raleigh grocery market place
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported seven people who have died of the flu over the past week, bringing this season’s total death count to 148.
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A math professor at Davidson College has a formula for picking his NCAA bracket that has earned him some fame and could earn him a fortune.
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North Carolina prison authorities must stop denying expensive medicines to most of the inmates believed to be carriers of the potentially deadly blood-borne infection hepatitis C, a federal judge ruled this week.
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As the wife of a police officer, Jenny Ainsworth now knows what it’s like to get “the call.”
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A man accused of shooting a Virginia deputy was arrested Wednesday in Cary.
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The Nash County man who has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife will be extradited from Arizona to North Carolina on Friday, according to the Nash County Sheriff’s Office.
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Witnesses told authorities that Gustavo Alexis Armenta Valadez, a student at Clayton High School, was crossing N.C. Highway 42 from Alta Mobile Home Park just before 7 a.m.
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Fort Bragg is preparing to remember two dozen paratroopers who died 25 years ago in what is now known as the Green Ramp Disaster when two aircraft collided in the skies over what was then Pope Air Force Base, sending a fireball into a crowd of paratroopers on the ground.
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Rain will gradually move out of central North Carolina on Thursday morning, but another system will bring more showers in the evening.
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Just days after a Hoke County commissioner’s armed encounter with intruders, his space was again violated, a television and a shotgun stolen.
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The family of a 17-year-old girl who took her own life while in jail in 2017 has reached a preliminary agreement with Durham County that could result in changes to how the county detains juveniles while in custody.
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Fort Bragg is preparing to remember two dozen paratroopers who died 25 years ago in what is now known as the Green Ramp Disaster when two aircraft collided in the skies over what was then Pope Air Force Base, sending a fireball into a crowd of paratroopers on the ground.
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Prompted by a tip from a worried mother, police seized guns and ammunition in the search of vehicle parked in a North Carolina State University lot.
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The family of a 17-year-old girl who took her own life while in jail in 2017 has reached a preliminary agreement with Durham County that could result in changes to how the county detains juveniles while in custody.
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A missing Orange County couple was found safe in Ohio, authorities said. A Silver Alert has been issued for them Wednesday.
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The city wants your ideas about Capital Boulevard’s future. Citrix Cycle is off to a good start. The state is giving you more opportunities to get a hassle-free REAL ID.
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A North Carolina teen who went by “itslilhotgirl” on Instagram is accused of using the social media platform to sell marijuana.
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Police said a passenger assaulted an Uber driver in downtown Raleigh early Thursday.
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Sgt. 1st Class Ethan Carpenter died during a routine free-fall training Friday, the Army announced Wednesday.
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Rain will gradually move out of central North Carolina on Thursday morning, but another system will bring more showers in the evening.
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A tractor trailer overturned north of Bunn on Thursday morning, closing North Carolina Highway 39 near Bern Wilder Road.

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Witnesses told authorities that Gustavo Alexis Armenta Valadez, a student at Clayton High School, was crossing N.C. Highway 42 from Alta Mobile Home Park just before 7 a.m.
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A custodian was arrested after a school resource officer found a gun in his car, according to the Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office.
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Three new studies affirm that Addyi, the so-called “female Viagra” from Raleigh based Sprout Pharmaceuticals, is safe and effective with alcohol even though the FDA warns against mixing the two, the company says.
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