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Food writer Andrea Weigl shares a few ideas for you and your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day...

Jason Bean assembles Well Watch 600 products to be shipped to California Jan. 21. He started working for Eno Scientific after his mother-in-law and company co-owner Deborah Judd was diagnosed with lymphoma.

Steve Judd invents groundwater monitoring system after a drought

From an inventor’s puzzle to a small business, Steve Judd and his family are working to take...

It hurt to talk, Nate Britt said, and the stitches on the inside of his swollen upper lip poked through his mouth while he spoke after scoring a career-high 17 points in UNC’s 93-83 win over Syracuse. 3 hours ago

Local/State News

Basketball star Isaiah Austin, who is 7 feet, 1 inch tall, gives high-fives after playing a game of knockout with some of the kids after he spoke to a group of students at St. Raphael's Catholic School in North Raleigh. Austin, who played for Baylor, was considered an NBA lottery pick until he was diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome a week before the draft. He now give motivational talks about his life situation.

NBA draft pick Isaiah Austin kicks off National Catholic Schools Week in Raleigh

Isaiah Austin, a former college basketball player and top pick in the 2014 NBA draft, talked to students at Saint Raphael’s Catholic School in Raleigh on Monday about how he adjusted to an illness that ended his promising basketball career ... 3 hours ago

Business

Steve Judd invents groundwater monitoring system after a drought

From an inventor’s puzzle to a small business, Steve Judd and his family are working to take Eno Scientific to the next level.

Politics

<strong>From left:</strong> Superintendent James Merrill, Commissioner Caroline Sullivan, school board Chair Christine Kushner, commissioners Chair James West, school board member Tom Benton.

Wake County leaders say property-tax increase needed

At a joint meeting Monday of the Wake County Board of Commissioners and the school board, leaders signaled additional revenue from a property-tax increase will likely be needed soon to help keep up with population growth that is filling schools and...

Nation/World News

People walk through the snow on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Chicago. A storm system diving out of the Midwest has the potential to slowly coat from Philadelphia up to Massachusetts and Maine with snow beginning late Sunday night into Monday and intensifying greatly well into Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.

Snowstorm threatens to paralyze the crowded Northeast US

Tens of millions of people along the Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor rushed to get home and settle in Monday as a fearsome storm swirled in with the potential for hurricane-force winds and 1 to 3 feet of snow that could paralyze the Northeast for... 50 minutes ago