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A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years. On this day in 2010 , police arrested 19 people protesting the switch to “neighborhood schools,” a move they believed would resegregate Wake County. Led by the Rev. William Barber II, activists marched downtown and arrived at the Wake Cou

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RALEIGH, NC — Raleigh police are investigating a deadly hit-and-run crash that happened early Thursday on Interstate 40 near the Cary Towne Boulevard exit. According to police, a preliminary look at the scene indicates a person was struck by a vehicle and the driver kept going without stopping. Crash...

ANGIER, NC — One person was killed and another was taken to the hospital after a single-vehicle crash in Harnett County early Wednesday, according to North Carolina State Highway Patrol. Troopers said the wreck happened off NC-55 near Angier on Oak Grove Church Road. The vehicle, a Nissan Pathfinder,...

Can you remember what you did in those lazy-hazy-crazy days of summer when school was out? In my day, school ended just before Memorial Day and started up again after Labor Day; we had nearly three months off. Some of my friends worked helping farmers harvest their tobacco crops. Some found part-time jobs with local me

A Knightdale man has been charged after Greenville police say he stabbed another man with a box cutter. According to a magistrate's order, Talieek Laquan Johnson, 23, of Knightdale, was arrested Monday and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Court documents allege Johnson assaulted the victim by stabbing him...

APEX, NC — Three men were killed early Saturday when an Infiniti sedan crashed on US-1 near Apex and rolled several times, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. The wreck happened just before 12:30 a.m. and left one other passenger with serious injuries. What happened. Investigators said...

RALEIGH — In war, alliances often prove decisive. But as Sun Tzu observed nearly 2,500 years ago, allies can often be more trouble than they are worth. “We cannot enter into alliance with neighboring princes,” the Chinese general wrote in his Art of War, “until we are acquainted with their designs.”

Zebulon — which has had four different town managers during the past two years — is facing scrutiny over its financial oversight in a new state auditor’s report released Monday. The report found the town was missing a contract for work done in 2025, accidentally drew more than $16,000 from a town employee’s bank accoun

Health officials say 295 cases of a parasite that causes intestinal distress have been identified in Wake County as of Monday, July 20. There are 307 cases in North Carolina as of July 14, but Wake County Public Health updates the county’s dashboard more frequently than the North Carolina Department of Health and Human