Wake County News

Efforts to eliminate extra pay for teachers who earn advanced degrees are gaining momentum in a small but growing number of U.S. schools, stirring a national debate about how best to compensate quality educators and angering teachers who say the extra training is valuable.

May has turned out to be a banner month for the food and beverage businesses along Hillsborough Street, the artery road connecting N.C. State University to the Raleigh downtown district.

If you're a public school teacher in North Carolina, it's hard not to feel like a political pawn in the ongoing yet-to-be-settled budget fight that continues to sluggishly unfold in Raleigh.

A Rocky Mount man is facing local charges in connection with a shooting earlier this month as well as drug charges in Wake County.

Lee Phillips drove his tractor to Carpenter Farm Supply Co. in Cary on July 8 to fill a tank with fertilizer.

The Harward House, circa 1914, was assigned to the Apex National Register Historic District in 2012 using survey documents from Capital Area Preservation.

The Wake commissioners are scheduled to talk transit at a July 21 work session. According to an informal meeting plan distributed this week to county officials and civic leaders, the commissioners will be asked for quick approval of what are largely Coble's ideas for developing a new "transit investment strategy."

The 16-year-old has taken it upon herself to construct and maintain a free library on the side of the East Wake Education Foundation building in downtown Wendell.

Students wash their clothes Ghanaian style in Kitase, a village in east Ghana. From left: Erin Gerber, 18, Peyton Cabot, 17, Parker Savage , 17, Jacob Asher, 17, Maya Copeland, 16, Taylor Morgan , 18, Emily Orander, 16, Sammie Asher, 17. - While kicking a soccer ball with dozens of students on a bumpy field in the village of Kitase in Ghana, three ... (more)

Graduating high school students in the Cary alumni chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity's Cary Kappa League program celebrated recent achievements in May. The students were highlighted on a local radio program.

Originally charged with second-degree murder after she admitted to strangling her husband, Amtey, 63, pleaded guilty on May 16 to voluntary manslaughter under what's called an Alford plea in the May 8, 2013 death of Sharad Ramchandraro Amtey, 77. The charge in the case normally carries a three-year prison sentence, but Dottie Amtey is now free, ... (more)

By the end of 2014, officials plan to finalize the route for the pipeline, which would run roughly from Franklinton to Wendell and connect two existing pipelines.

The Wake County Board of Commissioners has approved the purchase of land for a new elementary school in Holly Springs scheduled to open in 2016.

Frankea Aleasha Dabbs, 20, was arrested early Tuesday on charges of child abandonment and acting in a manner injurious to a child after authorities say she left the 10-month-old child, Milaney, in a stroller on a subway platform Monday and then boarded a train.

The legal fight over some of the more controversial provisions of North Carolina's elections overhaul bill brought an array of arguments and a crowd of lawyers to a federal courtroom Monday.

Officers found Jerome Edward Fogg, 27, slumped against a wall in a breezeway in an apartment building at 109 Bay Tree St. after getting a call saying people had heard gunshots in that area about 2:30 a.m. Fogg had been hit in the torso and one hip and was in critical condition when he was rushed to WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, police said in a ... (more)

The North Carolina Center for Missing Persons issued a Silver Alert for Demetrich Montez Wynn at about 12:30 a.m. after he went missing from a home in the 700 block of Newsome Street in Raleigh.

Monorail...Monorail...Monorail! - The Simpsons , "Marge vs. the Monorail" Thanks to Paul Coble, the Tea Party chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners, the plan for a comprehensive light rail system in the Triangle is stalled out.

In April 2013, Democracy North Carolina, a group that advocates fairness and transparency in elections, filed a complaint with the N.C. Board of Elections about possibly illegal contributions from the video sweepstakes industry to state candidates.

Police say Michael Ray Evans killed Jermaine Johnson, who was found outside Evan's apartment at 1323-C Kent Road about 8:15 p.m. Monday.