Sheriff's investigators and State Bureau of Investigation agents have charged two young men with murder in connection with Wednesday's double slaying of two friends at a thrift store in rural northwestern Orange County.

There's no shame in losing to the best team in the country on their home floor, but there is in the way N.C. State lost to UNC on Thursday. Here are J.P. Giglio's three points after the game.

PFC Cody Stanton, who deployed with the 21st Military Police Co. (Airborne) from Fort Bragg's XVIII Airborne Corps in November, had both legs severely damaged and suffered other injuries Thursday while his unit was training Afghan police about three hours' travel from Kandahar.

Two reports this week of possible men with concealed guns on the campus of N.C. State University stemmed from students playing a game called Humans vs. Zombies that has become a phenomenon on U.S. college campuses in recent years, university police said today.

State Rep. Bill Faison will announce Saturday that he is entering the governor's race. The Orange County Democrat joins Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton as the only two announced candidates to replaced Gov. Bev Perdue after she decided Thursday not to seek a second term.

Raleigh police have charged two men with murdering a man who was found dead Thursday morning at a hotel off Old Wake Forest Road, just inside the Beltline. They later charged a third man with accessory after the fact.