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First Look: Staff Photojournalist Jill Knight's raw edit from the Pieces of Gold dress rehearsal at Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 in Raleigh.

Scenes from Pieces of Gold rehearsals

Explore some of Tuesday's Pieces of Gold dress rehearsals by Wake County students at Memorial...

Wake Forest and Notre Dame tip off the 2012 ACC tournament in Greensboro on Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

The ACC men’s tournament schedule

Here is the schedule, with results, of the 2014 ACC men’s basketball tournament.

Sports

Original Atlantic Coast Conference member Wake Forest tips off against newest member Notre Dame in the opening game of the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C. Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

Wake Forest beats Notre Dame 81-69 at ACC tourney

Coron Williams scored a season-high 25 points and Wake Forest beat Notre Dame 81-69 on Wednesday in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. 31 minutes ago

Local/State News

Raleigh police officers and firefighters suit up as they set up an isolation zone around a Sheetz convenience store at Capital Boulevard and Thornton Road after employees at the station reported finding suspicious containers on March 12, 2014.

Fire, police investigate suspicious containers at Raleigh gas station

Police and firefighters were called to a Sheetz convenience store and gas station at Capital Boulevard and Thornton Road on Wednesday morning after employees reported finding suspicious items scattered around the gas pumps. 49 minutes ago

Business

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014, photo, Wal-Mart employee Richard Wilson, 27, is photographed outside the store where he works in Chicago. Wilson earns $9.25 an hour at that Wal-Mart and lives on the city’s western edge with his grandmother.

Low-wage jobs unexpectedly a way of life for many

For years, many Americans followed a simple career path: Land an entry-level job. Accept a modest wage. Gain skills. Leave eventually for a better-paying job. 44 minutes ago

Politics

CIA Director John O. Brennan pauses as he speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Washington. The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday the CIA improperly searched a stand-alone computer network established for Congress in its investigation of allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program and the agency's own inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department for possible legal action.

White House told of CIA move against Senate aides

The CIA's director and its top lawyer told White House attorneys in advance about their plans to file an official criminal complaint accusing Senate Intelligence Committee aides of improperly obtaining secret agency documents, the White House confirmed... 15 minutes ago

Nation/World News

Angelo Sarno, attorney for the parents of Rachel Canning, the New Jersey student who sued her parents to support her, talks to the press about Canning's return to her home, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in Roseland, N.J. Sarno said the 18-year-old's return is not contingent on any financial or other considerations. A judge last week denied the teen's request for child support and to have her parents pay her remaining high school tuition. But the judge scheduled an April court date to consider the over-arching question of whether the Cannings are obligated to financially support their adult daughter. Canning had left her parents' house on Oct. 30, two days before she turned 18 after a tumultuous stretch during which her parents separated and reconciled and the teen began getting into uncharacteristic trouble at school.

Honor student who sued parents returns home

The New Jersey honor student who sued to get her parents to support her after she moved out of their home has reunited with them, and the family is now asking for privacy. 16 minutes ago

Living

Oatmeal Toffee Discs are the perfect cookies for every day, including the school lunchbox.

3 homemade lunchbox cookies your family will love

Try these three recipes to elevate the cookies in your children’s lunches.

Entertainment

This image released by CBS shows, from left, Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons in a scene from "The Big Bang Theory." CBS says it's renewing its hit comedy "The Big Bang Theory" for three more years. This extraordinary deal would carry TV's most-watched sitcom through the 2016-2017 season, the series’ tenth on the air. "The Big Bang Theory" premiered in September 2007, and has been a ratings smash for virtually its entire run. This season it has averaged nearly 20 million viewers each week.

3-year theory: Big renewal deal for 'Big Bang'

CBS says it's renewing its hit comedy "The Big Bang Theory" for three more years. 16 minutes ago

Opinion

Is bigger better? 2014 ACC basketball tourney will answer the question

An Atlantic Coast Conference tournament with 15 teams? Now this should be interesting.

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