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Missing nearly five years, Erica Parsons found buried in rural S.C.

Sandy Parsons has recently been in talks with investigators from prison, family members say. Erica Parsons hasn’t been seen since 2011. Her disappearance touched off a national search.

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UNC, NCAA will have procedural hearing on Oct. 28

Raleigh family in spotlight after Facebook post on gender creative son

Would-be Raleigh bank robber arrested

Sports

Duke’s win at Notre Dame another little push toward ACC – DeCock

If Notre Dame were in the ACC – and one provision of the ACC Network deal was that if the Irish join a conference in football, it can only be the ACC – a single Coastal Division loss wouldn’t be disqualifying, merely disheartening. The Irish would still have everything to play for, instead of nothing.

CIAA will keep basketball tournaments in Charlotte, but move other sports events over HB2

UNC, NCAA will have procedural hearing on Oct. 28

Improved line play leads to fast start by Wake Forest

Politics

Daily Show spoofs HB2 with anti-gay food truck in Raleigh

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show came to Raleigh recently to poke fun at House Bill 2 by operating a food truck that refused to serve gay people.

CIAA will keep basketball tournaments in Charlotte, but move other sports events over HB2

Scandal’s Bellamy Young on Facebook Live in NC

Conservation voters league names Sen. Burr to its ‘Dirty Dozen’

Opinion

Two fathers waiting. One is dead. The difference that mattered

After the death of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, we must recognize that race fundamentally shapes our interactions, that it shapes the decisions of police offers to trust one person and not another, before they know anything else. We must push for change in a system that has failed to address the problem.

The drop that leads to the end of the world as we know it

The Hyde Amendment on abortion: four decades of injustice

A presidential campaign where facts, logic and history don’t matter

In Depth

NC lottery winners repeatedly beat stunning odds. Are they gaming the system?

Blogs & Columns

Bluegrass Raleigh

Big winners at the IBMA awards include Flatt Lonesome, Earls of Leicester

Susan Evans calls GOP charges on school crime, dropouts misleading

Folklorists preserved music from the threat of the 20th century

Videos

Meet the Wolfpack

Sep 30, 2016

VIDEO: Watch a timelapse video of over 800 images from the portrait sessions for the NC State Wolfpack's men's basketball team during media day at the Curtis & Jacqueline Dail Basketball Complex in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016.

Ethan Hyman ehyman@newsobserver.com

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Living

Happiness is a Warm TV

Al Roker entertains an early downtown Raleigh crowd – and then the rains came

Deep-fried Jell-O is among new treats at N.C. State Fair

Daily Show spoofs HB2 with anti-gay food truck in Raleigh

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Happiness is a Warm TV

Al Roker entertains an early downtown Raleigh crowd – and then the rains came

Deep-fried Jell-O is among new treats at N.C. State Fair

Daily Show spoofs HB2 with anti-gay food truck in Raleigh