Wake County News

Attorneys at the N.C. Attorney General's office wants the case brought by former athletics department learning specialist Mary Willingham against the University of North Carolina and the UNC-Chapel Hill moved to federal court.

The Cary Town Council on Thursday voted 6-1 to annex and rezone the 52-acre property so M/I Homes can build up to 93 homes there.

The Raleigh-Charlotte rail corridor is a little faster and more efficient, thanks to improvements made near the Wake/Durham County line and the Rowan/Davidson County line.

To get the extra quarter percent tax, voters in the four counties – including Wake and Mecklenburg – must approve the tax in a referendum this November, under a deadline in a bill approved 32-11 shortly after midnight.

The town currently prohibits developers from removing any tree bigger than 30 inches in diameter unless it is dead, diseased or in the way of proposed features that cannot be built elsewhere on a project site.

In March, the Wake County school board capped enrollment at every elementary school in town, along with the only high school.

Shades of John Edwards and "Two Americas!" The state Senate seemed to channel the former Senator in the debate over how to help the state's stagnating rural areas keep up with booming urban areas.

Mary Willingham, who claims that the university put player eligibility above academic integrity for years, filed the suit in Wake County, alleging that UNC retaliated against her for speaking about the academic performance of revenue-sport athletes.

"I always thought UNC was such a quiet and wonderful and peaceful and safe place," said J.B. Hu, who organized Wednesday's gathering.

The children, ages 6 to 12 and homeless, hurried around the room taking snapshots of their smiling and surprised moms and Bobby Murray and other Chevrolet dealers who had sponsored the gifts.

Shaqualla Dunbar talks with Evan Sonnenberg as Yvonne Campbell works with Tonesha Bennerson during a time for questions at a beginning teacher work session in February.

Gov. Pat McCrory's push to create a new incentive program met stiff resistance in a House committee Wednesday, as lawmakers recommended rejecting the Senate-approved measure.

Police say Sergio Martin Ramirez, 29, appeared to be drunk and interfering with traffic on the 200 block of South Wilmington Street at roughly 1 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest warrant and county records.

Jerome Leathers, principal of Jordan High School, will become the new principal of the Southern School of Energy and Sustainability.

Where's the cafeteria? Where's the right locker? Will there be enough time to get from second period to third? Where is third period? "What an overwhelming day for all of us, that first day of high school," said first-year Knightdale High School Principal Jim Argent.

The N.C. Department of Transportation and the Wake County Public School System are installing a right-turn lane at the school's main entrance, and a roundabout with sidewalks at the secondary southern entrance The closure will fully shut down the road between the schools' main and southern entrances, near 2500 Carpenter Upchurch Road.

A 23-year-old Greenwood man who posed as a Charlotte-area pastor and State Bureau of Investigation agent to scam people out of money was arrested following an investigation, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.

This week in history we look back 10, 25 and 50 years to see what was happening in the eastern Wake County area.

The appointment leaves only one Knightdale school without a permanent principal.

The Republican-led county commissioners took transit out of cold storage Monday with a pledge to launch a new, fast study of bus and rail transit improvement options for Wake County.