Wake County News

The Cary theater is looking for volunteer ushers who are at least 17 years old. The theater is at 122 E. Chatham St., Cary.

Kelly Nystrom is a teaching veteran and a fifth-grade teacher at a very good Wake County school, Underwood Elementary in Raleigh.

Now her father is headed back to Wake County to face a first-degree kidnapping charge.

Paramedics sometimes refer to them as "frequent fliers" - habitual callers to 911 who require a trip to the emergency room even though they're not in an emergency medical crisis.

A U.S. Dept. of Justice survey was conducted in 2011-12 by RTI International of 92,449 inmates, including 1,738 interviews of juveniles ages 16 and 17 in jails and prisons and other detention facilities across the country.

But Fulghum's spot on the Republican ticket is not assured, as Apryl Major, who ran as a write-in candidate for the House in 2012, is also vying for the seat representing parts of Raleigh and northern Wake County.

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.