Wake County News

The four-legged wonders might have appreciated that kind of attire Saturday in downtown Raleigh, where hundreds of dogs and their owners gathered under cold, drizzling skies for the SPCA of Wake County's 15th annual K9-3K Dog Walk.

Wake County Public School System will offer a Certified Nursing Assistant Level 1 short course from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. April 21-29, at Knightdale High School, 100 Bryan Chalk Lane, Knightdale.

The Wake County Republican Party is trying to focus the blame for the increase in teacher resignations on former Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue and the Common Core State Standards.

Currently, an advisory board with North Carolina Public Schools is in the process of reviewing and interviewing boards of charter schools that applied to open in the 2015 academic year.

Both sides agree teachers need a pay raise, but when it comes to why they haven't had one in five years -- and why teachers are leaving -- Republicans say they aren't to blame.

It's been almost a week since a woman was raped in Cary. Her attacker is still on the run, but somehow some people in the same apartment complex are just now finding out what happened.

Apex at Athens Drive ; Holly Springs at Cary; Green Hope at Fuquay-Varina; Panther Creek at Middle Creek.

The students got a taste of the Music Industry Leadership 101 curriculum developed by Usher's youth organization, New Look Foundation, that will be the foundation for a new career pathway for high schoolers in the Wake County school system.

Sisters Harper and Riley Anderson of Raleigh sift through and try out some of their take from the Easter egg hunt at the Zebulon Municipal Complex on April 12. Eastern Wake County began Easter celebrations early, with Knightdale and Zebulon holding their annual egg hunts last weekend.

Kearney was a prison system officer until he resigned today, according to Keith Acree, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.

The Democratic Women of Wake County meeting will start with a buffet at 11:30 a.m. and the program at noon Tuesday, April 22, at the N.C. State University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh.

Get to know him: Frank is a 7-year-old, 10-pound gray and white domestic shorthair with a laid-back personality.

When the school board adopted an aggressive timeline for selecting a superintendent last week, the vote was a unanimous one.

Dr. Jacqueline Jordan is the principal of Underwood Elementary in Wake County Public Schools System.

Quantavious Thompson was taken into custody late Wednesday afternoon, FBI spokeswoman Shelley Lynch said in a statement.

Hardin Park School Assistant Principal Philip Norman has been named to succeed Phillip Griffin as principal of Green Valley School effective July 1. Griffin, who has been principal at Green Valley for 11 years, had previously announced that he would be retiring after the end of the current school year.

Today, Wake County school officials are holding a press conference to discuss ""the alarming increase in mid-year teacher resignations and the dwindling supply of NC-trained teachers who are qualified to fill the empty positions."

Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel with the state Court of Appeals vacated Jason Young's first-degree murder conviction and ordered a new trial after finding that the judge in his 2012 trial should not have allowed jurors to hear about two civil lawsuits against Young.

Both towns had a jobless rate of 3.8 percent in February, according to data released by the N.C. Department of Commerce and seasonally adjusted by Wells Fargo.

Amanda Hayes, 42 - who is serving up to 16 years in prison for the July 13, 2011, death of Laura Ackerson - could face 2 to 20 years in prison if she is convicted of a second-degree felony charge of tampering with physical evidence/human corpse.