Raleigh faces a 97°F high and heat-index values near 106°F Friday, with storms possible by afternoon. Saturday brings only a brief break before another hot stretch.

The Capital Boulevard fun center hosted decades of birthday parties and Easter egg hunts. Its final day is Sunday.

Tickets start at $34 for the Sept. 24 preseason clash with Nashville — the Canes' first trip back to Greensboro since their 1990s tenant days.

A Thursday morning threat triggered a lockdown at the shared Fayetteville Street campus, just 11 days before classes resume.

Christopher Marques Jackson was caught in Hampton, Georgia, nearly five years after Dominique Rhodes was shot dead outside the venue.

Camren Creme was going up to 30 mph on a Smith Creek Park trail when he hit the child, who was airlifted to UNC Medical Center.

Deputies say two Kinston men tossed handguns into the woods before a K-9 named Athos tracked them down.

Thomas Jay Elwell was booked into the Wake County jail after new charges tied to a County Mill Way home surfaced.

Joe L. Hawkins Sr. was arrested after a month-long Craven County probe into a July report involving two young victims.

Aaron Pearson, 34, faces a felony charge after warrants describe bruising covering his son's face, chest, legs and back.

Brittany Nicole Sawyer-Hancock was found on Old Beulah Road two days after Benson Police issued her assault warrant, deputies say.

Nash County Public Schools crews are working around the clock to restore broken AC units as classrooms bake in triple-digit heat indexes.

A seventh-floor expansion opens in the coming weeks, bringing the hospital to 74 total beds and 50 new hires.