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Ben Matthews, Director of School Support for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction laughs as News & Observer columnist Barry Saunders takes part in the annual State School Bus ROADeo.

But the compromise bill comes with a sweetener that has the support of city leaders and the governor's office.

Supporters along Lane Street in downtown Raleigh cheer on the 57 protesters who were arrested after the fourth Moral Monday demonstration at the State Capitol on May 20.

Police said 25-year-old Lana Awni Almashini was making a left turn when her car was hit broadside by the bus - killing her.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development awarded $806,566 in a second round of grants to support 16 local homeless housing and service programs in North Carolina.

Federal regulators are launching a special inspection of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city that was forced to shut down last week.

RALEIGH, NC Three people have been arrested and charged with murder in connection to the death of a Bladen County native.

Zebulon officers took Richard Gardner Ennis, 50, of 510 Sallinger Street, Knightdale, into custody before he ever exited the bank.

Three Wake County men were arrested Tuesday by Mebane Police for a slew of financial crimes, including identity theft and financial card forgery.

Wake County sheriff's deputies fired four gunshots that killed a 35-year-old man who apparently tried to escape from involuntary commitment by fleeing in a stolen law enforcement vehicle in March.

Charlie Douglas Harris, 53, of 712 Shepard School Road was charged with one count of a sexual offense against a child and, was being held at the Wake County jail under $100,000 bail.

School board chairman, Dan Edwards, announced Tuesday night, that School Superintendent Dr.

Jay DeLancy. of Voter Integrity Project NC, will discuss the North Carolina Voter ID Bill moving through the N.C. Senate at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 30, at the Agriculture Cooperative Extension, 589 Raccoon Road, in Waynesville.

As Joanna McConnell bragged on how her son, Jordan, had learned to count over the past year, the 5-year-old obliged and began sounding off: "1, 2, 3..." McConnell, a single mom from Garner, credits her son's pre-kindergarten class, with turning him from a shy boy to one who gets along with other children well and will sing about butterflies at the ... (more)

An autopsy report says Wake County sheriff's deputies shot an unarmed mental patient four times, including once at point-blank range in the back.

North Carolina's Democratic attorney general is opposing a state Senate budget provision that moves much of an investigative unit from his department to one headed by an appointee of Republican Gov.

The Rev. John Saxon, lead minister of the UU Fellowship of Raleigh, N.C., was among those arrested in the "Moral Monday" protests.

The sudden shutdown of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city because of year-old data is likely to prompt questions at a local meeting with federal regulators.

City Attorney Tom McCormick has told the Raleigh City Council that he’s waiting for guidance from Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby.