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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

Jeff Gordon celebrates Sunday’s Crown Royal 400 win by kissing the bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

NASCAR: Jeff Gordon wins Crown Royal 400 at Brickyard

NASCAR Sprint Cup series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Jeff Gordon is now a five-time winner at the Brickyard. He hopes it’s the precursor to a fifth Sprint Cup Series championship.

Local/State News

On the Roanoke River along the waterfront in Plymouth, N.C. the replica of the Civil War ironclad the CSS Albemarle floats on the serene waters on July 20.

Best-Kept Secrets: NC's Inner and Outer Banks a land of pirates, wolves, legends

There is something magical about the land of sunken ships, pirate tales and wild horses that roam the shoreline. Even the names of places evoke a time of swashbucklers and legends.

Business

Bubblews, a social network that recently came out of an extended test phase, pays users for posts that attract traffic and advertisers.

Get paid for posts?

Facebook and most other social networks are built on the premise that just about everything should be shared – except the money those posts produce.

Politics

Thomas Crowder

Raleigh councilman turns in neighbors under controversial parking ban

Two years ago, Raleigh City Councilman Thomas Crowder spearheaded an effort to ban front-yard parking in his district. Now he’s filing dozens of complaints to make sure parking scofflaws are held accountable.

Nation/World News

United States U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, left, speaks with Israeli U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the situation in Gaza at United Nations headquarters, Monday, July 28, 2014. The U.N. Security Council called for "an immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire" in the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas at an emergency meeting.

Relative lull in Gaza as UN calls for cease-fire

A relative lull descended on the war-torn Gaza Strip at the start of a major Muslim holiday on Monday, as international efforts intensified to end the three-week war between Israel and Hamas and the U.N. called for an "immediate" cease-fire. 5 minutes ago

Living

On the Roanoke River along the waterfront in Plymouth, N.C. the replica of the Civil War ironclad the CSS Albemarle floats on the serene waters on July 20.

Best-Kept Secrets: NC's Inner and Outer Banks a land of pirates, wolves, legends

There is something magical about the land of sunken ships, pirate tales and wild horses that roam the shoreline. Even the names of places evoke a time of swashbucklers and legends.

Entertainment

John Benjamin Hickey (left) and Daniel Stern star in WGN’s original series “Manhattan.”

What to Watch on Sunday: ‘Manhattan’ series debuts on WGN

WGN debuts its second original series, “Manhattan,” which tells the story behind the Manhattan Project – America’s mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb in the 1940s.

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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