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Photos from Black Flower, Myst, 606 Lounge, Still Life and Dual. More nightlife photos at <a href="http://raleigh.carolinanightlife.com" target="_blank">CarolinaNightlife.com</a>.

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Loretta Ruppert, of Cary, shops for holiday gifts during her first time to the Deco Raleigh store. She found a unique gift for her Secret Santa that she says "couldn't be found anywhere else." Customers got treated to an after-hours holiday shopping party there in downtown Raleigh, N.C. on Monday, December 9, 2013. Owner Pam Blondin (not seen) partnered with Yellow Dog Creative in Hillsborough, N.C. and the graphic design firm sent out about 200 invitations to their clients. The store donated 10% of their profits from the day to Dress for Success and Yellow Dog Creative matched with 15%. The Dress for Success organization helps disadvantaged women to get support and career advice and attire for their professional wardrobes.

Holiday Faces 2013

A collection of images by N&O photojournalists featuring people in the area that capture the...

Sports

Wake Forest's new head football coach Dave Clawson speaks to supporters and the media during an NCAA college football news conference in Winston-Salem, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

Clawson ready to begin rebuilding Demon Deacons' football team

No arms were twisted by Wake Forest in its process of hiring a new football coach. Dave Clawson made that abundantly clear Tuesday upon his introduction as Jim Grobe's successor. "I really wanted to be at Wake Forest," Clawson said. "The second this...

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After a clinic some players from the Cary High School soccer team (from left) Morgan Sullivan, Katie Carter and Cayla Rodney, greet players from Iraq like Aylin Adel, 16, right. Carter and the visiting team had met earlier in the week, when her club team scrimmaged and had lunch with the foreign students. As part of the State Department Sports Visitor Program, 13 female Iraqi soccer players will receive soccer instruction during a clinic at the indoor XL Soccer World arena. The high school age girls, who are in the U.S. for 10 days, worked out with the Women's Head Soccer Coach at Cary High Laura Kerrigan.

Iraqi girls' soccer team visits Triangle to receive training, inspiration

The first all-girl soccer team to visit the United States as part of the State Department's Iraq Soccer Visitor Program have spent much of their 10-day trip in the Triangle learning from and being inspired by women here who are active in sports.

Business

As senior vice president for global product development at General Motors Co., Mary Barra has touted the makeover of its vehicles and brand, including the launch in January 2012 of the Buick Encore compact crossover SUV at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

GM executive Mary Barra first woman to head major car company

Mary Barra has spent the past three years as General Motors' product chief, making cars that drive better, last longer and look good in showrooms.

Politics

FILE - This Oct. 17, 2013 file photo shows House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Bipartisan budget negotiators are working toward a modest budget agreement to replace tens of billions of dollars in spending cuts this year and next with longer-term savings and revenue from increased fees. Ryan and Murray are hopeful of striking an agreement as early as Tuesday afternoon.

GOP, Obama line up behind modest budget deal

Top Republicans and President Barack Obama are lining up behind a modest but hard-won bipartisan budget agreement that seeks to replace a portion of tough spending cuts facing the Pentagon and domestic agencies. 7 minutes ago

Nation/World News

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., announce a tentative agreement between Republican and Democratic negotiators on a government spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Negotiators reached the modest budget agreement to restore about $65 billion in automatic spending cuts from programs ranging from parks to the Pentagon, with votes expected in both houses by week's end.

Bipartisan negotiators reach modest budget pact

Shedding gridlock, key members of Congress reached a modest budget agreement Tuesday to restore about $63 billion in automatic spending cuts from programs ranging from parks to the Pentagon and eliminate the threat of another partial government shutdown... 32 minutes ago

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Winning recipes in our Holiday Treat contest

There are some amazing, creative bakers among our readers. Check out their winning recipes in this year's contest for the best holiday cookie, candy and brittle.

Entertainment

Scotty McCreery accepts the breakthrough artist of the year award onstage at the American Country Awards at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nev. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP)

Scotty McCreery, Florida Georgia Line touted at American Country Awards

The fans of country music love Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line and they proved it again Tuesday during the American Country Awards. Garner's Scotty McCreery also left Las Vegas with an American Country Award guitar for being the best breakthrough...

Opinion

Bob Kellam, 66, and his wife, Susan Wyatt, 65, walk back to their farm production shed Monday after feeding their chickens in their well-ordered 6-acre open space filled with gardens, hoop houses and a hot house or two on the Kellam-Wyatt Farm in East Raleigh.

End of tax credit might mean flow of land gifts could lose ground

The number and size of land donations might drop with the end of the state income tax credit for land conservation.

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