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Carolyn Best, ex-wife of a man charged with murder in a Wilson shooting, was arrested in Wake County and charged with accessory after the fact.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — After an Apex high school coach was found stabbed to death in an apartment in Raleigh, the man arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with her death is back in Wake County. The Raleigh Police Department announced an investigation into the stabbing death of Sheremy Gwenette Dillard after she was f

CLAYTON, N.C. – A Clayton man has been arrested on a felony larceny charge after authorities allege he rented a towable compressor valued at more than $14,000 and failed to return it. Rapha Antonio Rodriguez, 52, of Cooper Branch Road, was arrested Aug. 24 by the Johnston County Sheriff’s...

MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A North Carolina family will hold a service Saturday for a slain young Morrisville man who they said was a son, brother, nephew and friend to many before a deadly northeast Durham shooting this month. Jamari Sharpe, 21, of Morrisville, was found shot the afternoon...

A Battleboro man is facing attempted murder charges after authorities say he fired a handgun into his estranged wife's SUV while she was driving, then evaded capture for ten days before deputies intercepted him on a major interstate carrying a stolen 9mm handgun. Robert Earl Williams III, 34, was taken into custody wit

Raleigh woke Friday to cloudy skies, calm winds and temperatures around 72 degrees at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The quiet start will give way to a stormier afternoon, with another round of heavy rain possible before a major heat surge arrives next week. Showers could begin around noon, followed by a...

We need a hospital in northern Wake County. The Wake Forest zip code has a population of about 90,000 people. That’s larger than sixty-seven counties in North Carolina. To the east, Rolesville adds another 10,000. Franklin County, to our north, adds approximately 83,000 more. None of these jurisdictions has an emergenc

Creating a list of the Triangle's 30 best restaurants keeps getting harder for us here at Axios Raleigh. We see it as a sign of just how vibrant the region's cuisine has gotten over the past decade, with longtime institutions going strong and an ever-growing list of exciting newcomers. Why it matters: The Triangle's fo

Annie Mae Scott used to ride and keep horses on family land beside her home. These days, the horsepower comes from students’ cars parked on her property. Scott says she is helping solve a parking shortage at Apex Friendship High School. The town of Apex has sued her to make the parking stop. The 71-year-old woman says

After six years of litigation and a nearly six-week trial earlier this year, a Wake County judge has ruled that the state has failed to manage and protect coastal fisheries. In his nearly 200-page order issued Aug. 17, Superior Court Judge Bryan Collins Jr. explained that the court, “based on the preponderance of the e