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A record crowd braved the hot sun to cheer on the 1938 racers.

Crowds cheered Soap Box Derby racers on Glenwood

In the 1930s, the winner of Raleigh's soap box derby was front-page news. Sponsored by The News...

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

Josh Wesley, a Carolina Hurricanes prospect, winds up to shoot during the Canes development camp held at PNC Arena in Raleigh on July 23, 2014. He is the son of former Hurricanes great, and current team defensive coach Glen Wesley.

Canes' Josh Wesley carries on hockey tradition

Being drafted by the Carolina Hurricanes and a week of developemt camp has been special and surreal for defenseman Josh Wesley and his father, Glen, the former Canes star. 2 hours ago

Local/State News

Betsy Houston pauses for a moment after leaving flowers at the spot where Feng Liu, 59, a research professor at UNC’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy, was killed. Liu was killed during a robbery on West University Drive near the Ransom Street intersection in Chapel Hill on Thursday, July 24, 2014. Houston usually parks her car and walks to work along the same route that Liu took his afternoon walk.

Suspect in UNC-CH professor's murder was in between drug rehab programs

A suspect was in between drug rehab programs and scheduled to meet with his pretrial-release manager when police say he and another man fatally attacked UNC-Chapel Hill professor Feng Liu. The 59-year-old research professor was hit in the head with... 6 minutes ago

Business

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 16, 2014, job seeker U.S. Army veteran John Godman, right, talks to recruiters Nicole Rushton, left, and Megan Hogan, center, at a Hiring Fair For Veterans in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims on Thursday, July 23, 2014.

Across US job market, layoffs are becoming rare

The risk of losing your job is getting smaller and smaller.

Politics

Department of Veterans Affairs Acting Secretary Sloan Gibson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 24, 2014, before the House Veterans' Affairs Committee to outline his actions for restoring trust to the beleaguered agency.

House, Senate chairs offer competing bills on VA

With Congress scheduled to recess in a week, the chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees offered competing proposals Thursday to fix a veterans' health care program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsified records ...

Nation/World News

A police officer walks past the wreckage of a carjacked vehicle that police say hit a group of people on a corner in Philadelphia on Friday, July 25, 2014, killing two children and critically injuring three other people. One of the children was pronounced dead at the scene and another at a hospital, Homicide Capt. James Clark said. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Alejandro A. Alvarez) MANDATORY CREDIT; THE EVENING BULLETIN OUT, TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES

Carjacked SUV hits crowd, killing 3 young siblings

Two men carjacked a woman at gunpoint but soon sped out of control, killing three children Friday as they plowed into a group selling fruit to raise money for their church, Philadelphia police said. 6 minutes ago

Living

Co-owners of Smokey's BBQ Rosco Carrasco, left, holding beef brisket and Paul Calhoun with pork ribs stand by their smoker in Fort Worth, TX Thursday, July 10, 2014. Prices for both beef and pork have been climbing. (Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis)

Short supply of beef and pork sends prices soaring

The price of beef and veal shot up more than 10 percent from June 2013 to June 2014, according to the most recent Consumer Price Index. Pork prices rose by 12 percent. 3 hours ago

Entertainment

Scarlett Johansson is the brainiest of them all in “ Lucy.”

‘Lucy:’ Feast for the eyes, famine for the head

Scarlett Johansson almost (but not quite) makes this glittery gibberish cohere.

Opinion

Faith leaders show the right response to migrant children

While some have displayed anger and ugliness toward children at the border, faith leaders have shown our nation's better side by welcoming and assisting them.

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