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Duke freshman Matt Highland, right, cheers before the Blue Devilss game against Florida State in the ACC Football Championship at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

Live from Charlotte: Duke vs. Florida State in ACC Championship

Get our updates, commentary and photos from the Duke Blue Devils facing the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles at the ACC Championship in Charlotte. 37 minutes ago

Local/State News

Arameta Warren, left, Marion Laske, center, and Nancy Thorne, right, prepare sugar cakes during The Raleigh Moravian Church's annual Candle Tea event Saturday December 7, 2013 in Raleigh, N.C.

Moravians welcome hundreds at annual candle tea

For four hours on Saturday, people came to sip Moravian coffee, taste Moravian sugar cake, shop the holiday bazaar and listen to high school choirs sing Christmas carols in Raleigh. 2 hours ago

Business

NC fracking commission considers putting chemical data in ‘electronic lock box’

The NC Mining and Energy Commission to vote on “electronic lock box” concept to safeguard fracking chemicals in “the cloud.” The Commission has been debating chemical disclosure for over a year and will vote next month ...

Politics

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers

Rep. Ellmers calls Affordable Care Act a ‘war on women’

The Affordable Care Act is an example of a “war on women,” U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina said Saturday in the Republicans’ weekly address.

Nation/World News

Kenneth McCarroll, of Willsbros T&D Services, performs a chemical test on a transformer in Paris, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Electrical crews are coming into North East Texas from all over to help restore power to thousands of residents that lost it when an ice storm caused trees and branches to snap pulling down lines and blowing up transformers. (AP Photo/The Paris News, Sam Craft) MANDATORY CREDIT

Snow, ice, deep-freeze hit large swath of US

A late fall cold snap that has gripped much of the country is being blamed for a handful of deaths and has forced people to deal with frigid temperatures, power outages by the thousands and treacherous roads. 12 minutes ago

Living

Harry Manning, left, and Mike Gearon mix corn syrup, sugar and water to make Peach Buds at Butterfields Candy company.

Raleigh woman revives N.C. company that made Peach Buds hard candy

Butterfields’ candy company is producing hard candy in five flavors: peach, lemon, key lime, holiday and honeybell orange. 1 minute ago

Entertainment

Fantasia performs during The Official Fantasia Album Release Party Hosted By Fantasia & Friends held at Label Night Club in the NC Music Factory on Monday April 29, 2013.

Fantasia leads North Carolina’s Grammy hopefuls with three nominations

North Carolina acts have seven Grammy Award nominations, three of them for High Point native Fantasia.

Opinion

Nelson Mandela lived a glorious, accomplished life

It’s hard to believe the South Africa of old, with its racial separatism and inequality, survived in that state as long as it did. But Nelson Mandela changed it.

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