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First Look: Staff Photojournalist Jill Knight's raw edit from the Pieces of Gold dress rehearsal at Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 in Raleigh.

Scenes from Pieces of Gold rehearsals

Explore some of Tuesday's Pieces of Gold dress rehearsals by Wake County students at Memorial...

The haunting silouetted statue of Charles Duncan McIver looms on the east side of the state capitol building in downtown Raleigh. McIver was a North Carolina educator and statesman who was founder and president of the state's first Normal and Industrial College For Women.

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Sports

Miami's Tonye Jekiri (23) and Rion Brown (15) celebrate their 87-77 victory over North Carolina in the ACC Championship game against Miami on Sunday March 17, 2013 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C.

DeCock: Saturdays are better days to celebrate ACC title

In the post-expansion era, the ACC tournament means more than it has in a long time. So why not move the title game to Saturday, when the champion wouldn't be quickly eclipsed by the NCAA tournament?

Local/State News

Raleigh police officers and firefighters suit up as they set up an isolation zone around a Sheetz convenience store at Capital Boulevard and Thornton Road after employees at the station reported finding suspicious containers on March 12, 2014.

Fire, police investigate suspicious containers at Raleigh gas station

Raleigh police and firefighters blocked off a Sheetz convenience store and gas station at Capital Boulevard and Thornton Road on Wednesday morning. 1 hour ago

Business

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014, photo, Wal-Mart employee Richard Wilson, 27, is photographed outside the store where he works in Chicago. Wilson earns $9.25 an hour at that Wal-Mart and lives on the city’s western edge with his grandmother.

Low-wage workers struggle to find middle-pay jobs

For years, many Americans followed a simple career path: Land an entry-level job. Accept a modest wage. Gain skills. Leave eventually for a better-paying job. 56 minutes ago

Politics

CIA Director John O. Brennan pauses as he speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Washington. The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday the CIA improperly searched a stand-alone computer network established for Congress in its investigation of allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program and the agency's own inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department for possible legal action.

Senate investigation of CIA dogged by controversy

House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday he is concerned over allegations of CIA snooping into computer files used by Senate investigators delving into allegations of past spy agency torture. 16 minutes ago

Nation/World News

FILE - In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Rachel Canning smiles during a hearing at the Morris County Courthouse, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, in Morristown, N.J. Canning, the New Jersey honor student who sued to get her parents to support her after she moved out of their home, has reunited with her parents. The Star-Ledger of Newark reports that the lawyer representing Canning's parents said in a statement Wednesday, March 12, 2014, that the 18-year-old's return is not contingent on any financial or other considerations.

Honor student who sued parents returns home

The New Jersey honor student who sued to get her parents to support her after she moved out of their home has reunited with them. 12 minutes ago

Living

Oatmeal Toffee Discs are the perfect cookies for every day, including the school lunchbox.

3 homemade lunchbox cookies your family will love

Try these three recipes to elevate the cookies in your children’s lunches.

Entertainment

This image released by CBS shows, from left, Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons in a scene from "The Big Bang Theory." CBS says it's renewing its hit comedy "The Big Bang Theory" for three more years. This extraordinary deal would carry TV's most-watched sitcom through the 2016-2017 season, the series’ tenth on the air. "The Big Bang Theory" premiered in September 2007, and has been a ratings smash for virtually its entire run. This season it has averaged nearly 20 million viewers each week.

3-year theory: Big renewal deal for 'Big Bang'

CBS says it's renewing its hit comedy "The Big Bang Theory" for three more years. 1 minute ago

Opinion

Is bigger better? 2014 ACC basketball tourney will answer the question

An Atlantic Coast Conference tournament with 15 teams? Now this should be interesting.

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