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Actors and actresses of the day were a popular subject for cigarette cards.

Past Times: Kids collected cigarette trading cards in late 1800s

The collecting of trading cards goes back much further than Pokemon or even baseball cards. In 1949...

A screenshot from the new website, The Recipe, that is dedicated to recipes, food photography and how-tos based on the work of News & Observer food writer Andrea Weigl and photographer Juli Leonard.

N&O launches new The Recipe website

The News & Observer has a new cooking website featuring favorite recipes, hunger-inducing photos...

Sports

The Canes Anton Khudobin (31) watches the action during the second period.

Canes coach Bill Peters to stick with winning lineup

Coming off a 4-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning, Carolina Hurricanes coach Bill Peters sees no reason to make changes. "Keep rolling," he said Wednesday. 3 hours ago

Local/State News

A rendering shows the front entrance to Raleigh Union Station, which was scheduled to begin construction in March.

Transit authority ready to sell downtown Union Station site to Raleigh

The region's transit authority is ready to sell the future site of Union Station to the city of Raleigh. The exchange of about four acres of land and up to $4 million would clear another obstacle from the path of the long-planned project. 1 hour ago

Business

Ariel Rogers, 22, and Jamila Edelen, 20, stock shelves at Roses in Southeast Raleigh on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. The store is scheduled to open Thursday in a building Kroger left two years ago.

Roses to open in former SE Raleigh Kroger space

Variety Wholesalers on Thursday will open a Roses in the former Kroger building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the first step in a strategy to bring groceries back to a neighborhood where there are few local options for fresh, affordable food. 1 hour ago

Politics

The Rev. William Barber, head of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, right, calls his attorney after being confronted and stopped by Lt. Martin Brock, left, with the General Assembly Police at the N.C. Legislature on Jan. 28, 2015. Barber wanted to lead his group of protesters on a walk around the rotunda on the second floor of the Legislative Building; Brock informed him he could not, citing that it would block the entrance doors to the House and Senate chambers. The Rev. Sheldon Shipman from Charlotte looks on, center. Barber's group is protesting the Republican-led lawmakers policies.

NAACP returns to Raleigh with goals, concerns for NC legislators

NAACP protesters returned to Raleigh on Wednesday hoping to visit with legislators about their concerns and goals for this General Assembly session, and they clashed with police outside the entrance doors to the North Carolina legislative chambers. 2 hours ago

Nation/World News

In this photo taken, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, Penn-Trafford High School athletic trainer Larry Cooper, left, puts Roman Orange, a senior on the wrestling team, through concussion evaluation testing at the school in Harrison City, Pa. Backed by the NFL, every state in the country has passed a law to protect young athletes from concussions. However, fewer than half contain the four key principles, which are considered the “gold standard” for concussion law.

Youth concussion laws pushed by NFL lack bite

Every state now has a concussion law after the NFL launched an extensive lobbying campaign. But at the laws strong enough? 1 hour ago

Living

Opt for a leather shoe or boot. Rubber boots aren’t warm enough unless they’re insulated. Ahnu Montara boots, $150.

The art of layering: How to dress for fluctuating temps

How do you dress when the temps hit close to 50 in the afternoons but we're leaving for work or school in the mornings while it's at or below freezing outside? Layers.

Entertainment

FILE- In this Sept. 2, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan arrives for the GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2014 in central London. A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday Jan. 28, 2015, set another court hearing in Lohan's reckless driving case after a prosecutor questioned whether the actress had completed the terms of her community service sentence with a London charity organization.

Prosecutor questions Lindsay Lohan's community service

A prosecutor on Wednesday raised doubts that Lindsay Lohan had completed the terms of her community service sentence in a reckless driving case that is the final criminal case the actress faces for years of bad behavior. 5 minutes ago

Opinion

Patrons congregate outside Foundation cocktail bar on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh. Some have complained that the revived area is becoming too loud.

Lower the volume on Raleigh's boom

Raleigh should heed downtown developer Greg Hatem on noise complaints.

Financial

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