Wake County News

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.

Police in Raleigh accused a woman of biting her 16-week-old baby and breaking the child's ribs and shoulder blades.

Police in Raleigh accused a woman of biting her 16-week-old baby and breaking the child's ribs and shoulder blades.

Luke Lazarus Marion IV, whose address was listed as 102 Isley St. in Chapel Hill, had been arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury on July 19, when police located him not far from where the fight happened late on July 18, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said.

The Wake County Public School System will offer the following classes through its Lifelong Learning Program.

Wake County heart attack victims have a better chance at survival thanks to new, analytics-driven recommendations from the county's Emergency Medical Services.

Despite the danger, many people still text behind the wheel, but punishing them isn't always easy.

Duke Energy Progress and the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency announced yesterday that their boards of directors have approved an agreement for Duke to purchase the power agency's ownership in certain generating assets.

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.