Wake County News

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC A man committed to putting people behind bars was booked into New Hanover County Detention Center Monday night.

The trial of a former corrections officer in the death of an inmate at the Wake County Detention Center will resume Tuesday.

On Friday, police in Raleigh arrested Leonardo Miranda Garcia, 25, after he reportedly raped a girl under the age of 13. Garcia has been charged with first-degree rape and and indecent liberties with a child .

For the third year in a row, Freekibble.com and Ellen DeGeneres' natural pet food company, Halo, Purely for Pets, will make the holidays brighter for homeless dogs and cats across the nation, including those in Anson County.

Self Storage Solutions in Raleigh, N.C., recently astounded a homeless tenant in need by waiving her more than $700 in overdue rental fees, which allowed her to reclaim her belongings.

Mary Catherine Marett, 27, was arrested by Trooper J.W. Carroll and taken to the Wake County Detention Center on Saturday morning from WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, where she had been taken after the 12:30 a.m. crash.

Wake County officials are warning people living near Ralph Stephens Road and Village Walk Drive in Holly Springs about a kitten found on Friday.

Two women, Nicole Dozier and Denise Wilkie, were sworn into office. They are the first women to serve on the Apex Town Council in 12 years.

Shannon Johnstone hugs a pit bull mix named Nancy Botwin while taking photographs of the shelter dog at a former landfill Wednesday in Raleigh.

A North Carolina photographer hopes her pictures of shelter dogs at a former landfill will help find homes for them and raise awareness of the need for spaying and neutering.

The Friends of Wake County Guardian ad Litem Program enhance the lives of at-risk children and their caregivers through programs which promote their physical, educational, and emotional well-being.

As an audience countdown struck "one," the Lucky Strike tower at the American Tobacco Campus Friday lit up with rows of multicolored bulbs.

About a year after a Wake Forest mother pushed the state to investigate why several local teenagers were battling a rare form of cancer, state officials say they have found no cause or reason to classify the cases as a cancer cluster .

The Benson Center for Active Aging , formerly the Benson Senior Center, offers a variety of programs for adults 60 and older.

A new home on the corner of Bennettwood Ct.. and W. Millbrook Rd. in the Bennett Place subdivision in NW Raleigh is worked on Oct. 1, 2013.

The town of Apex relinquished the bar from its zoning jurisdiction in October. The town had specifically asked to include the bar in its extra-territorial jurisdiction in 2007.

Teacher turnover in North Carolina reached a five-year high last year with more teachers leaving their classrooms to take new jobs in education or move.

Police have accused Stalf of robbing the PNC Bank at 3619 Rogers Road around noon on Wednesday.

Cash Michaels is skewering the "Kushner Seven," charging that the seven Wake County school board members who removed Keith Sutton as chairman on Tuesday had "stabbed" him in the back.

The Rev. William Barber II had just been convicted of two misdemeanors related to a spring protest inside the North Carolina Legislative Building when he walked across a Wake County courtroom with his right arm outstretched.