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Museum Director Dr. Emlyn Koster announces how happy he is to have a dinosaur model that was stolen from a N.C. Museum of Natural Science exhibit re-installed after being returned. Read the original story on the theft and the suspects subsequently surrendering to police at http://bit.ly/1kAjH9O.

Baby Edmontosaurus comes home | 07.28.14

Stolen model returns to nest

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

Chase Jeter, a 6-foot-10 center, is reportedly making his college decision in the coming days and plans to announce his choice in a few weeks. Duke has been considered the odds-on favorite for some time, over the likes of Arizona, UCLA and hometown Nevada-Las Vegas.

Duke basketball recruiting: names to know for the classes of 2015 and 2016

A look at Duke basketball’s top recruiting targets for the classes of 2015 and 2016 2 hours ago

Local/State News

An inbound bicyclist on West Club Boulevard at Oval Drive in west Durham, NC Monday midday, July 28, 2014 rides along the gradually widening traffic lane in front of a narrower traffic calming area behind her. Bicyclists and vehicular traffic would find not much room for both car and bicycle traveling side by side through this first of several narrower traffic calming areas planned for Club Boulevard in Durham.

Road Worrier: Durham traffic-calming plan makes bike riders uneasy

Residents along West Club Boulevard in Durham have waited years, and worry about further delays, for a plan that would make drivers go more slowly and pedestrians feel more at ease.

Business

Tinamarie Carter walks back to her home after shopping at the Kroger on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in 2012. Art Pope’s Variety Wholesalers has purchased the property and plans to open a new grocery.

Pope's Variety Wholesalers buys Southeast Raleigh Kroger to establish grocery

Art Pope's Variety Wholesalers has purchased the vacant Kroger store in Southeast Raleigh with plans to establish the company's first standalone grocery in an area that badly needs one.

Politics

FILE - This Nov. 29, 2013, file photo shows a part of the HealthCare.gov website, photographed in Washington. If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don't give much thought to each year's renewal. But make the same assumption in one of the new health law plans, and it could lead to costly surprises. Insurance exchange customers who opt for convenience by automatically renewing their coverage for 2015 are likely to receive dated and inaccurate financial aid amounts from the government, say industry officials, advocates and other experts.

Plan to simplify 2015 health renewals may backfire

If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don't give much thought to each year's renewal. But make the same assumption in one of the new health law plans, and it could lead to costly surprises.

Nation/World News

This photo provided by the CDC shows an ebola Virus. U.S. health officials are monitoring the Ebola outbreak in Africa but say the risk of the deadly germ spreading to the United States is remote.

Officials: Little risk of Ebola outbreak in US

U.S. health officials are monitoring the Ebola outbreak in Africa but say the risk of the deadly germ spreading to the United States is remote. 6 minutes ago

Living

Being the caregiver of a partner with a chronic illness can be emotionally and physically draining. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that almost half of all adults are living with a chronic illness.

Her husband is chronically ill, which takes a toll on her, too

My husband, Dave, may officially be the sick one in our marriage, but his steadily declining health is also doing a real number on my mental and physical well-being. Emotionally, I’m the little silver ball in the pinball machine. I’m... 2 hours ago

Entertainment

Zac Efron (left) treks the Appalachian Mountains with Bear Grylss in “Running Wild with Bear Grylls” on NBC.

What to Watch on Monday: Zac Efron treks the Appalachians in new Bear Grylls show

NBC debuts a new reality series about celebrities testing their survival skills, while ABC airs the “Bachelorette” finale.

Opinion

Grief and questions in Chapel Hill

A popular UNC professor is killed, and Chapel Hill grieves another loss to random violence.

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