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A still from a 1937 H. Lee Waters film shows a young boy in Clayton. The film is one of dozens recently digitized by Duke University Libraries.

Digitized films from Duke show side of Triangle towns few have seen

Nearly 80 years after H. Lee Waters filmed North Carolinians doing ordinary things, a digitization...

A bald eagle in Georgia: Eagles prey on American coots, which dine almost exclusively on hydrilla, an invasive aquatic plant. Bacteria that can grow on the underside of hydrilla leaves contain a powerful toxin that infects waterfowl – including coots.

Bald eagles, flourishing in Southeast, face bacteria serial killer

Researcher Susan Wilde uncovered a bacterium, Aetokthonos hydrillicola, with a powerful toxin that...

Sports

Three of the ACC’s top scorers – N.C. State’s Trevor Lacey, above center, formerly at Alabama; Boston College’s Aaron Brown (Southern Mississippi); and Miami’s Sheldon McClellan (Texas) – are transfers in their initial season of league competition. Lacey and Ralston Turner, an LSU transfer, are N.C. State’s top two scorers.

Jacobs: Transfers bolster ACC basketball teams

Three of the ACC’s top scorers – NC State’s Trevor Lacey, formerly at Alabama; Boston College’s Aaron Brown (Southern Mississippi); and Miami’s Sheldon McClellan (Texas) – are transfers in their initial season...

Local/State News

Cassandra Peterson has spent more than three decades as Elvira, the horror movie hostess who is equal parts ghoulish and glamorous. She appears at Raleigh Wizard World Comic Con March on 13-15.

Shaffer: Sexy at 63, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, to appear at Raleigh Comic Con

At 63, Cassandra Peterson can still wriggle into the tiny black dress, still tease her raven hair into a gravity-defying helmet and still pull off absurdly protruding cleavage – scarcely aging as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Business

Two new Samsung phones, Galaxy S6, left, and Galaxy S6 Edge, right, are shown at a special press preview in New York. Samsung officially unveiled the stylish new phones on Sunday, March 1, 2015, the eve of this week’s Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain.

Samsung ditches plastic design, adds mobile pay in new phone

The South Korean phone manufacturer also unveiled a premium model with a display that curves around the left and right edges so that information can be quickly glanced at on the side. 1 hour ago

Politics

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, for a procedural vote as Congress moves toward a spending bill for the Homeland Security Department hours before a shutdown was to begin.

Homeland Security funding deal elusive

With a partial shutdown of the Homeland Security Department possible at week's end, Speaker John Boehner says the House wants to enter talks with the Senate on a final bill funding the agency. Senate Democrats are not interested in joining those talks...

Nation/World News

Amber McGeshick, 25, a member of the Lac Vieux Desert tribe, works for the tribe’s online lending company. The position has provided her with a stable salary and a tribal home in Watersmeet, Mich., that she is renting to own. Here, she watches television with her daughter, Aiyana Roque de Escobar, 16 months; her niece Audrina Cornelius, 3; and nephew Brayden Cornelius, 4, at her home.

For Indian tribes, an ethical gamble on high-interest lending

In the middle of the Ottawa National Forest, there is a Native American reservation where snowdrifts mark the main road into town. At the end of that town, there is a casino with penny slots and a three-story hotel. In back of that hotel, there ...