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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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Rhonda Leary shows off her catch to Chris Parker as they fished out of the Shelter Creek Boating Access Area recently.

An idyllic setting helps anglers seek sunfish

The banks of Holly Shelter Creek are shaded by tall cypress, gum, oak, hickory and pine trees, with...

Just about everybody wants Kinston's Brandon Ingram. The list includes NC State. Wolfpack coach Mark Gottfried, one of the first to offer the lanky Ingram a scholarship, has kept the 6-9 forward's attention - despite the growing number of suitors - ... 3 hours ago

Local/State News

Trinity, 7, gets a little help from volunteer Becky Thurber as she examines her new camera.

Raleigh’s homeless children see hope through a new lens

Thirteen sets of small, eager hands reached for pricey Kodak digital cameras at the Salvation Army of Wake County’s Center of Hope on Wednesday.

Business

In this July 29, 2014 photo, jeweler Murray Cadenhead works on repairing a piece of jewelry at Perry's Fine Jewelers on Independence Boulevard in Wilmington, N.C. The government issues its first of three estimates of how fast the U.S. economy grew in the April-June quarter on Wednesday, July 30, 2014.

As US economy accelerates, Fed remains cautious

After a grim start to 2014, the U.S. economy has rebounded with vigor and should show renewed strength into next year. 7 minutes ago

Politics

The stream restoration component of the Upper Longview Lake project will reduce erosion and improve water quality. This section was nearing completion in this March 2013 file photo.

NC lawmakers OK rewrite of stream protection rules, amid criticism of process

The state legislature on Wednesday agreed to replace rules that protect North Carolina’s rivers and streams with new regulations written by a small group of industry insiders and regulators.

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Nation/World News

FILE - In this June 18, 2014, file photo, detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. For nearly two months, images of immigrant children who have crossed the border without a parent, only to wind up in concrete holding cells once in United States, have tugged at heartstrings. Yet most Americans now say U.S. law should be changed so they can be sent home quickly, without a deportation hearing. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds two-thirds of Americans now say illegal immigration is a serious problem for the country, up 14 points since May and on par with concern about the issue in May 2010, when Arizona's passage of a strict anti-immigration measure brought the issue to national prominence.

Poll: Americans cool to border-crossing children

Americans are wary of granting refugee status to children crossing the U.S. border to flee strife-torn countries in Central America, and most in an Associated Press-GfK poll say the U.S. does not have a moral obligation to accept asylum seekers generally... 1 hour ago