A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
On this day in 2015, The News & Observer published the story of how Raleigh police officer Dan Hicks talked a distraught man out of jumping from a bridge on Interstate 440 & the Beltline into traffic on Wade Avenue.
The incident was recorded by the state’s Department of Transportation traffic camera and placed online. Video of Hicks and the unnamed man embracing and walking off the bridge together went viral on social media…