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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's new head football coach Dave Clawson speaks to supporters and the media during an NCAA college football news conference in Winston-Salem, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

Clawson ready to begin rebuilding Demon Deacons' football team

No arms were twisted by Wake Forest in its process of hiring a new football coach. Dave Clawson made that abundantly clear Tuesday upon his introduction as Jim Grobe's successor. "I really wanted to be at Wake Forest," Clawson said. "The second this...

Local/State News

After a clinic some players from the Cary High School soccer team (from left) Morgan Sullivan, Katie Carter and Cayla Rodney, greet players from Iraq like Aylin Adel, 16, right. Carter and the visiting team had met earlier in the week, when her club team scrimmaged and had lunch with the foreign students. As part of the State Department Sports Visitor Program, 13 female Iraqi soccer players will receive soccer instruction during a clinic at the indoor XL Soccer World arena. The high school age girls, who are in the U.S. for 10 days, worked out with the Women's Head Soccer Coach at Cary High Laura Kerrigan.

Iraqi girls' soccer team visits Triangle to receive training, inspiration

The first all-girl soccer team to visit the United States as part of the State Department's Iraq Soccer Visitor Program have spent much of their 10-day trip in the Triangle learning from and being inspired by women here who are active in sports. 2 hours ago

Business

As senior vice president for global product development at General Motors Co., Mary Barra has touted the makeover of its vehicles and brand, including the launch in January 2012 of the Buick Encore compact crossover SUV at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

GM executive to be 1st woman to head major car co.

Mary Barra has spent the past three years as General Motors' product chief, making cars that drive better, last longer and look good in showrooms. 35 minutes ago

Politics

FILE - This May 1, 2013 file photo shows Federal Housing Finance Authority Director nominee Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., listening as President Barack Obama announces Watt's nomination for the, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Democrats have used the Senate's newly eased filibuster procedures to clear the way for confirmation of the man President Barack Obama wants to become a top housing regulator. The Senate voted 57-40 on Tuesday to end a Republican filibuster, or delaying tactics, against Watt.

Filibusters weakened, Senate Dems move Obama picks

Democrats overwhelmed outnumbered Republicans and pushed a pair of President Barack Obama's high-profile nominees through the Senate on Tuesday, the first to win confirmation since the chamber weakened the age-old filibuster. 48 minutes ago

Nation/World News

African National Congress President Nelson Mandela shown in a file photo dated Feb. 1991 during a press conference in Johannesburg.

Obama hails Mandela as "last great liberator"

Amid cheers and song for the prisoner who became peacemaker, President Barack Obama energized tens of thousands of spectators and nearly 100 visiting heads of state Tuesday with a plea for the world to emulate Nelson Mandela, "the last great liberator... 10 minutes ago

Living

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Winning recipes in our Holiday Treat contest

There are some amazing, creative bakers among our readers. Check out their winning recipes in this year's contest for the best holiday cookie, candy and brittle. 1 hour ago

Entertainment

Scotty McCreery accepts the breakthrough artist of the year award onstage at the American Country Awards at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nev. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP)

Bryan, FGL clean up at American Country Awards

The fans of country music love Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line and they proved it again Tuesday during the American Country Awards. 11 minutes ago

Opinion

Bob Kellam, 66, and his wife, Susan Wyatt, 65, walk back to their farm production shed Monday after feeding their chickens in their well-ordered 6-acre open space filled with gardens, hoop houses and a hot house or two on the Kellam-Wyatt Farm in East Raleigh.

End of tax credit might mean flow of land gifts could lose ground

The number and size of land donations might drop with the end of the state income tax credit for land conservation. 2 hours ago

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