Wake County News

According to investigators, Patrick Pair attempted to cross the highway at about 7:15 a.m. when he was hit by a 2014 Hyundai traveling westbound on U.S. 70. Gabriel Neal, 37, of Clayton, was driving the Hyundai that struck Pair.

Robert Lee Alston, 32, of 3301 Trail Drive in Wendell was arrested shortly before 3 p.m. Friday at Quarry Road and Mitchell Mill Road, arrest records show, and charged with two counts of cocaine trafficking, maintaining a vehicle for drug use, possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest and fleeing to avoid arrest.

July 25--RALEIGH -- Just as state Senate GOP leaders start pushing legislation that could make it hard for Wake County to get moving on a big transit plan, Wake GOP leaders say they finally are ready to get moving on a big transit plan.

Kate Nelson of Enloe High School in Raleigh was awarded the 2014 Philip Watts Scholarship, which recognizes an outstanding senior student of German in the Wake County Public Schools.

When students across the state return to school next month, their teachers would be able to use a new tools to monitor their progress and enhance communication between educators, students and parents, under an amendment that passed the House last week.

County social services departments across the state continue to process a backlog of Medicaid applications ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline to get the job done.

Work First Family Assistance provides job training and benefits to low-income families.

"We believe the services will be more efficiently and more effectively provided," then-county manager David Cooke told a reporter at the time.

Tony Wagner, an education expert from Harvard University, led the brainstorming among the school board and senior staff that focused on making sure: The school system plans to release a strategic plan by the end of 2014 that sets out goals and priorities for the next five years.

One of the men accused of beating a University of North Carolina professor to death on a quiet street near campus had been released from the Wake County Jail the day before, authorities confirmed Friday.

One of the men accused of beating a University of North Carolina professor to death on a quiet street near campus had been released from the Wake County Jail the day before, authorities confirmed Friday.

In another warrant, Wake County sheriff's deputies also filed three felony charges that said Siddhantha Sharma had five doses of LSD in his possession Tuesday and had sold them to an undercover operative.

"I am disappointed that they're continuing to take away the tools we have at the local level," McFarlane said.

The North Carolina Center for Missing Persons issued a Silver Alert for Malcom Sinclair Blue, who is believed to be cognitively impaired, at about 11 a.m. He is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs about 135 pounds.

Grading and Erosion Control Plans submitted as part of a site/subdivision plan associated with residential development that has a gross density of three units per acre or less are limited to clearing and disturbing only the land area required to install the infrastructure to serve the development .

North Carolina already is among the national leaders in accredited high school coaches, but may make a big jump in the national rankings during the next year.

Two of the Triangle's biggest health care organizations have teamed up to trim medical expenses as part of a broader national emphasis on cutting costly waste in the health care field.

This morning the North Carolina Senate voted 31-17 to pass H1224. Sen. Fletcher Hartsell, a Republican from Concord, introduced an amendment to the bill to raise the local sales tax cap to 2.75 percent rather than 2.5 percent.

Sabrina Santucci reports live from Guilford County that the Houston Independent School District is recruiting teachers and promising them about 18, 000 more dollars than they are making in North Carolina LOOKING AHEAD, LOOKING AHEAD, THE HOUSTON, TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT IS HOLDING A JOB FAIR IN GREENSBORO TODAY.

With the power of the North Carolina state party in decline, supporters of Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, have created a separate fundraising organization in hopes of boosting her re-election campaign, The New York Times reported.