Sex offenders are being held at Butner Correctional Complex after their sentences are served.

Wakefield’s girls and Knightdale’s boys track and field teams defended their matching 4A championships on Saturday in Greensboro.

Guilford County seemed ripe to reject the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. It’s a heavily Democratic, urban county chock full of colleges and universities with the young voters that amendment opponents focused on getting to the polls.

At age 40, Raleigh’s Erika Braun is off to the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha, Neb.

As live music thumped in the background and a breeze blew through Moore Square, Tonya Gillham stood under an oak tree with a look of accomplishment on her face.

At Elon and Campbell, Monique Johnson and Patrick Newman made it through three tough years. But law school was only the most recent in a series of hurdles.