Raleigh NC

Deputies responded around 1 p.m. on Monday to the 4200 block of Ruby Drive near Raleigh.

A Wake County elementary school principal has been suspended without pay for three days for her handling of allegations that a student was assaulted by a substitute teacher. Richard Bridgers has repeatedly spoken at Wake County school board meetings since March accusing South Lakes Elementary School of not properly...

KENLY – New details have emerged in a fatal crash that occurred around midnight Saturday near Kenly, claiming the life of a passenger and sending the driver to the hospital. According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, the collision happened on Weaver Road, just off U.S. Highway 301 after a vehicle ran off the...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A Smithfield man played the odds and won big with a $250,000 grand prize, the North Carolina Education Lottery said. Needham Wiley Jr. secured the top prize in the third of four 2025 Multiply The Cash Second Chance drawings and there were more than 36.7 million total entries in the Oct. 8...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WKRC) - A biomedical engineer discovered a method that can create real leather in a lab without necessitating the death of any animals. George Engelmayr is a biomedical engineer at Cultivated Biomaterials, and he claims to have made a breakthrough discovery. "We are the first company in the...

Gov’t Mule got Back in the Saddle on Saturday at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, NC, with a series of bust-outs and an onstage collaboration with “I’ll Be” singer Edwin McCain. The performance was part of the Mighty Giveback event, a fundraiser hosted by Band Together to support local nonprofits, with a special focus...

The N.C. Department of Transportation has announced that sections of Benson Road (N.C. 50) and U.S. 70 will be temporarily closed overnight from today through Saturday. The closures are scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. each night and end at 6 a.m. the following morning, weather permitting. The temporary shutdowns will...

FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. — A Wake County assistant principal now has a new kidney, all thanks to one of the teachers at his school. Ernest Devane, the assistant principal at Fuquay-Varina Middle School, received a kidney last month from Kristin Lundberg, the school’s performing arts teacher. Devane has suffered...

Brijette Basden was killed, her sister was injured when the two pulled over and were standing outside of their car when another driver hit them.

The head of special education for a former Raleigh charter school has been charged with fraudulently trying to obtain thousands of dollars in federal education funds. Court records show Shawntrice Andrews, 51, of Raleigh was arrested Thursday on a charge of felony obtaining property by false pretenses and felony...