Hoke County's Allen Thomas will be sworn in as NCACC president Saturday, capping three days of policy talks downtown.

Police say foul play isn't currently suspected, but the person's identity remains unknown as autopsy results are pending.

Khedron “Hezter Boi” Mims screened “Bull City Turnaround” at the W.G. Pearson Center, pairing real stories of incarceration and poverty with live music.

Nearly 600 volunteers served up barbecue and hot dogs to more than 2,300 attendees at the East Main Street shelter campus.

Hickory Place residents say a $1.8 million property sale left them scrambling before a September 1 deadline.

A 14-month probe into a Hilltop Road infant death ended with second-degree murder warrants for the baby's mother and grandmother.

State lawmakers poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into speeding capital appeals, but 123 death-row cases remain snarled in legal fights.

Suspects ranged from 19 to 75, with arrests reaching Kentucky and Las Vegas in a Lee County-led operation.

Rio vanished from Oklahoma in late July and somehow surfaced in Greensboro two weeks later, no one knows how.

Jose Manuel Martinez-Martinez was flown back to Henderson and jailed without bond on statutory rape and kidnapping counts.

Forty pigs faced simulated deep dives at Duke; some suffered paralysis while a new gas mix kept others alive.

Three options, one goal: reconnect neighborhoods the Durham Freeway split apart decades ago. Council takes it up Thursday.

The Nashville-style chain is taking over 706 Ninth St. next to Starbucks, with a Fuquay-Varina spot already in the works.