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SELMA, N.C. — Johnston County sheriff’s deputies arrested three people during a traffic stop April 7 on Davis Homestead Road. According to the sheriff’s office, the driver, James Robert Andrews, 56, of Smithfield, was allegedly found with a small quantity of suspected methamphetamine in his pocket. He was charged with felony possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.

Williamsport, Pa. — Brittney Gross, coffee director and business partner at Sweetspire Coffee in Williamsport, has placed second in the annual U.S. Coffee Cup Tasting Championship competition hosted in Raleigh, N.C. on March 26-29. The competition challenges coffee experts from around the nation to test their sensory skills. Competitors are given three identical-looking cups of coffee. Two of the cups contain the same...

Every day, people leave North Carolina prisons and return to the community — more than 18,000 people this year alone. For many, rebuilding their lives after incarceration is fraught with barriers to basic needs like housing, employment and health care. Those challenges took center stage in Raleigh April 7...

Not every state can pull this off. North Carolina has spent decades quietly protecting one of the South’s most honest meals, and the meat-and-three tradition is proof that simple food, done right, beats everything else. I’ve eaten at a lot of places across this state. Nothing hits quite like...

A North Carolina woman is facing a series of charges after a baby died in her care. Tamika Jones Fowler was running a day care in her home when the baby died , and she failed to report it to the proper authorities. After the child’s death, police began an investigation into what could have possibly happened and discovered that the baby wasn’t the only...

A road in North Raleigh will be closed for the next year, and when it reopens, part of it will be considerably higher than it is now. St. Albans Drive will be elevated to meet New Hope Church Road where it crosses a set of railroad tracks near Atlantic Avenue. Contractors for the N.C. Department of Transportation have begun building a bridge to lift...

The city faces a $13 million shortfall. "There remains little doubt that we will need to raise property taxes."

School officials said a lockdown initiated after a report of a possible armed person near the middle school campus.

A late-night fight inside a Poole Road smoke shop landed a Raleigh woman in the hospital on Tuesday, after she was pistol-whipped and grazed by a bullet, according to police. Raleigh officers were called to the shop on the 1900 block of Poole Road just after 9 p.m., where they found a woman who had been struck in the face with a...

Wake County’s building scene is buzzing — from roadwork to residential installs, there’s steady demand for skilled hands. Here are several solid openings across the trades, from entry-level to management.