Wake County News

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.

A teacher reported a fifth-grader at the school had what appeared to be a gun in their book bag just as students arrived to their classrooms around 9:15 a.m. The plastic pistol was small and black.

The Cary Town Council will host public hearings on the proposed budget at 6:30 p.m. May 23 and June 13 at Town Hall.

But Senate Republicans took a step Tuesday toward striking down local rules governing where smokers like Proulx can light up.

I was sorry to hear about the recent “no” vote by the Cary Town Council on The Boulevard project by Lennar.

Major construction on the section of Interstate 40 that runs through Cary is set to begin in late 2014 and wrap up in August 2016.

So, as we understand it, Wendell commissioners James Parham and Christie Adams agree on the basic tenets of the town's new economic strategy for recruiting business.

The Wake County Sheriff's Office said 33-year-old Misty Michelle Mullins was shot after breaking into a second home around midday Friday.

A proposal to spend nearly $5 million to upgrade the athletic stadium at Athens Drive High School has become a contentious sticking point as the Wake County school board and county commissioners squabble over details of a bond referendum.

New single-family building permits were up 65 percent in Wake County through the first four months of the year, according to data compiled by the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County.