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Photos from Black Flower, Myst, 606 Lounge, Still Life and Dual. More nightlife photos at <a href="http://raleigh.carolinanightlife.com" target="_blank">CarolinaNightlife.com</a>.

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Browse party photos from around town on Triangle.com.

Loretta Ruppert, of Cary, shops for holiday gifts during her first time to the Deco Raleigh store. She found a unique gift for her Secret Santa that she says "couldn't be found anywhere else." Customers got treated to an after-hours holiday shopping party there in downtown Raleigh, N.C. on Monday, December 9, 2013. Owner Pam Blondin (not seen) partnered with Yellow Dog Creative in Hillsborough, N.C. and the graphic design firm sent out about 200 invitations to their clients. The store donated 10% of their profits from the day to Dress for Success and Yellow Dog Creative matched with 15%. The Dress for Success organization helps disadvantaged women to get support and career advice and attire for their professional wardrobes.

Holiday Faces 2013

A collection of images by N&O photojournalists featuring people in the area that capture the...

Sports

Wake Forest High hopes to make history in football championship

Wake Forest will look to make history Saturday, competing for the school's first state football title as the program makes its second trip to the big game in four years.

Local/State News

The Charlotte skyline rises above a layer of smog as motorists drive along Interstate 77 near Lakeview Rd.Tuesday afternoon in this aerial photograph.

Northern states want smog reductions from NC, other states

Governors of eight northern states asked the Environmental Protection Agency to force pollution reductions from South and Midwest, saying they are choked by incoming smog from North Carolina and other states. The effort by New York, New Jersey and...

Business

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012 file photo, Mary Barra, General Motors Senior Vice President, Global Product Development, speaks at the debut of the 2013 Buick Encore at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. A person briefed on the matter on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 said General Motors' board has named Barra as the company's next CEO.

GM names Mary Barra CEO, 1st woman to head car co.

General Motors has picked a woman as its next CEO, naming product development chief Mary Barra as the first female head of a major U.S. car company. 5 minutes ago

Politics

Signs warn motorists as they enter the Camp Hatteras National Seashore that the Bonner Bridge over the Oregon Inlet is closed eight miles ahead. The NC DOT deemed the bridge unsafe for vehicles on Tuesday and shut it down due to erosion around support struts.

Road Worrier: SELC says no to lattes, yes to lawsuit against NCDOT bridge

Board members for the Southern Environmental Law Center shrugged off pressure from Gov. Pat McCrory to drop a lawsuit that has stalled an NCDOT project to replace Bonner Bridge on the Outer Banks.

Nation/World News

Bennett Chambers, 8, of Rodgers Forge, Md., plays in the snow at Rodgers Forge Elementary School on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun/MCT)

First watch: Record low temps, record wealth, and the Person of the Year

President Obama was the first of many world leaders to honor former South African President Nelson Mandela at a memorial service in Johannesburg this... 2 hours ago

Living

The holidays are supposed to serve up plenty of laughter and joy, but for many, it&#x2019;s a stress-filled pressure cooker with a side of chaos.

Give yourself the gift of less stress this holiday season

Experts say one major cause of stress during the holidays is putting everyone else's needs ahead of your own, causing exhaustion and resentment. A former Duke professor offers some tips to reduce your stress.

Entertainment

Thaddaeus Edwards, Lakeisha Coffey, Derrick Ivey and Elisabeth Lewis Corley in &#x201C;The Best of Enemies.&#x201D;

Theater review: 'Best of Enemies' a seemingly perfect production

Based on Osha Gray Davidson's book, Mark St. Germain's 2011 play tells the gripping true story of the begrudging respect that developed between a black civil rights activist and a high-ranking Ku Klux Klan member during the integration of Durham schools...

Opinion

McCrory, Tata cast false blame for Bonner Bridge closing

Gov. Pat McCrory and his DOT secretary Tony Tata take the wrong route on access to the Outer Banks.

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