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Fall Out Boy in concert with Paramore at Walnut Creek in Raleigh, NC Tuesday night July 22, 2014.

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An Apple employee holds up the new iPad Air on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, in San Francisco. Apple unveiled a new, thinner, lighter tablet called the "iPad Air" along with a slew of new Macs Tuesday at an event in San Francisco. The iPad Air weighs just 1 pound, compared with 1.4 pounds for the previous version. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Sports

N.C. State's head coach Dave Doeren works with Dravious Wright (8) during the first day of spring football practice in Raleigh, N.C. Wednesday March 5, 2014.

NC State football adds series with West Virginia

Further upgrading their schedule, the Wolfpack will host West Virginia in 2018 and travel to Morgantown, W.Va., in 2019. 2 hours ago

Local/State News

An influx of funding will keep two young primates and their mothers at the NC Zoo, and bring three newcomers in the spring. Just two months ago, North Carolina's zoo was ready to send its youngest gorillas, Bomassa and Apollo, and their mothers away, along with an unrelated female.

Change of plans: NC Zoo will keep gorillas and add three more

An influx of funding will keep two young primates and their mothers at the NC Zoo, and bring three newcomers in the spring. Just two months ago, North Carolina's zoo was ready to send its youngest gorillas, Bomassa and Apollo, and their mothers away... 1 hour ago

Business

N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory, left, and Sealed Air CEO Jerome A. Peribere at the Charlotte Chamber on Wednesday. Sealed Air Corp., a Fortune 500 company known for making Bubble Wrap, announced Wednesday that it will move its headquarters to Charlotte, bringing 1,262 jobs.

Sealed Air Corp. moving headquarters to Charlotte, bringing nearly 1,300 jobs

Sealed Air Corp., a Fortune 500 company known for making Bubble Wrap, announced Wednesday that it will move its headquarters to Charlotte, bringing 1,262 jobs. 52 minutes ago

Politics

Republican Senator Harry Brown addresses members of both the House and the Senate during a conference committee meeting in the Legislative Office Building in downtown Raleigh on Tuesday, July 15, 2014.

NC Senate gives initial OK to sales-tax changes

Legislation that would alter how counties in North Carolina can raise sales taxes received initial approval from the state Senate on Wednesday following a debate that has reopened the old fault lines between urban and rural North Carolina. 59 minutes ago

Nation/World News

Flowers lay on the tarmac as a ground Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Dutch Airforce, carrying bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, prepares to take off from Kharkiv airport on July 23, 2014. The first plane carrying bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 23 left eastern Ukraine for the Netherlands. The Dutch military aircraft took off from the airport in the government-controlled city of Kharkiv bound for Eindhoven after the first group of victims' remains were loaded onto the plane in wooden coffins.

40 bodies from jet solemnly returned to Dutch soil

Victims of the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine returned at last Wednesday to Dutch soil in 40 wooden coffins, solemnly and gently carried to 40 identical hearses, flags at half-staff flapping in the wind. 11 minutes ago

Living

Chapel Hill cookbook author Nancie McDermott on the Craftsy set.

Chew On This: Chapel Hill cookbook author makes her Craftsy debut

Craftsy, a website that offers online classes on sewing, jewelry making and cooking, recently added a Thai cooking class by Chapel Hill cookbook author Nancie McDermott.

Entertainment

FILE - This Jan. 31, 2014 file image released by Starpix shows Stephen Colbert at the Shape Magazine and Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York. Colbert will not only be following in David Letterman's footsteps, he'll be doing it on the same stage. CBS said Wednesday, July 23, that Colbert, who is replacing Letterman as the "Late Show" host next year, will keep the show in New York City's Ed Sullivan Theatre. Colbert's debut date is still uncertain, dependent on when Letterman officially retires from late-night TV.

CBS says Colbert keeping CBS' 'Late Show' in NYC

Stephen Colbert will not only be following in David Letterman's footsteps, he'll be doing it on the same stage. 28 minutes ago

Opinion

North Carolina’s children face a troubling future

Data gathered by the Annie E. Casey Foundation show North Carolina, and especially its children, lagging in key measures of income and well-being. 14 minutes ago

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