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An unhinged North Carolina state Senate candidate live-posted his own armed standoff with cops Monday, posting alarming updates from the woods as he claimed officers were closing in on him. Jonathan D. Miller, the Libertarian candidate for North Carolina’s 16th Senate District in the suburbs of Raleigh, was taken into custody Monday afternoon with no shots fired, WRAL reported. Miller began posting Sunday night that he intended to take his own life — then gave live updates when cops showed up to

Raleigh, North Carolina has agreed to put $26,235,749.27 into a settlement fund for people and companies that paid its water and sewer capital facilities fees from 2016 to mid-2018. Checks of about 105 percent of the fees paid would go out automatically, with no claim form, once a Wake County judge gives final approval. That... The post Raleigh property owners who paid capital facilities fees are set to get about 105 percent of them back automatically from a $26.2 million settlement appeared fi

Editor’s note: This story contains discussions about suicide and self-harm, a topic that will be disturbing to some readers. If you are having thoughts of suicide or other mental health struggles, call or text 988 for a 24/7 hotline. Cary police took a man into custody Monday afternoon after dozens of his social media posts threatening self-harm led to an hours-long standoff with SWAT teams and negotiators. Police first received reports from “concerned citizens” Sunday night after Jonathan D. Mi

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — As the North Carolina State Fair wraps up its final day Sunday in Raleigh, attendance figures show it may not match 2025 numbers. The fair runs over 11 days and, before Sunday, averaged nearly 82,000 people attending daily — for a total of around  817,852 fairgoers as of the end of […]

Officers arrested Raleigh resident Kevin Spruill three times in 2023, telling him he had an outstanding arrest warrant. All three were for the same warrant, he said, and it was no longer active because it had already been served. It didn’t matter. It was still listed in eWarrants, part of...

A Charlotte man accused of murder in connection with a homicide in Garner was found on a hog farm nearly two weeks after the fatal shooting, the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Jose Francisco Banegas-Quintanilla, 28, was arrested and transported to Johnston County on Friday night, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He is accused killing Victor Manuel Martinez-Rivera, 37, at the Garner Super 8 Motel on Oct. 11. Johnston County deputies found Martinez-Rivera dead with gunshot wounds

Two people were injured after a tractor-trailer and a car collided along U.S. 70 Sunday morning, causing part of the road to be closed. Around 8:15 a.m., the NC Department of Transportation reported the wreck at Guy Road, about half a mile west of Clayton, according to CBS17 . The driver of the semitractor-trailer was traveling east on U.S. 70 when the driver of a Dodge Charger was driving on Guy Road through the highway’s intersection. State troopers said the tractor-trailer driver failed to st

A nearly year-long contract fight between WakeMed and UnitedHealthcare ended for employer plans on October 15, when the Raleigh hospital system went back in network for those members. Medicare Advantage is a different story. WakeMed says it “remains out of network for Medicare Advantage plans,” which leaves UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare members in the same position as […] The post WakeMed’s Raleigh hospitals rejoined UnitedHealthcare employer plans October 15, but stay out of network for UnitedHe

Wake County has announced that Heather Cashwell has been chosen as director of the Division of Solid Waste Management.

CARY, N.C. – Emilio Garcia fired a 4-under par 136 over the course of the weekend, helping Florida A&M Men’s Golf to the team title while he captured the individual medalist award at the 2026 edition of the SAS Championship HBCU Invitational housed at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, North Carolina.