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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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Jeff Gordon celebrates Sunday’s Crown Royal 400 win by kissing the bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

NASCAR: Jeff Gordon wins Crown Royal 400 at Brickyard

NASCAR Sprint Cup series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Jeff Gordon is now a five-time winner at the Brickyard. He hopes it’s the precursor to a fifth Sprint Cup Series championship.

Local/State News

On the Roanoke River along the waterfront in Plymouth, N.C. the replica of the Civil War ironclad the CSS Albemarle floats on the serene waters on July 20.

Best-Kept Secrets: NC's Inner and Outer Banks a land of pirates, wolves, legends

There is something magical about the land of sunken ships, pirate tales and wild horses that roam the shoreline. Even the names of places evoke a time of swashbucklers and legends.

Business

Family Dollar is one of the Charlotte region’s most prominent homegrown companies. The company has 8,100 stores, making it the nation’s second-largest dollar store retailer. This is the Family Dollar store at 1720 W. Trade St. in Charlotte.

Dollar Tree buying Family Dollar for $8.5 billion

Dollar Tree is buying rival discounter Family Dollar, giving it a wider reach in the intensifying fight for deal-seeking customers. 5 minutes ago

Two years ago, Raleigh City Councilman Thomas Crowder spearheaded an effort to ban front-yard parking in his district. Now he’s filing dozens of complaints to make sure parking scofflaws are held accountable.

Nation/World News

Palestinians pray in the courtyard of a U.N. school in Gaza City, Monday, July 28, 2014. The school, one of dozens of emergency shelters for those who have fled the fighting. It's the morning of Eid al-Fitr, the three-day holiday that caps the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. In normal times, the men would have worshipped at their neighborhood mosques. However, 20 mosques have been hit by Israeli warplanes so far, according to Palestinian officials. Israel says Hamas stores weapons and rockets in houses of worship. The men prefer to perform Eid prayers in the relative safety of the school.

Israeli strikes on Gaza, rocket fire, break lull

Israeli jets struck three sites in Gaza on Monday after a rocket was launched at Israel, the military said, disrupting a relative lull in the war-torn territory at the start of a major Muslim holiday. 5 minutes ago

Official: Storms destroy E. Tenn. homes, no deaths
Dollar Tree buying Family Dollar for $8.5 billion 10 minutes ago
Plan to simplify 2015 health renewals may backfire 20 minutes ago
Italy's Vincenzo Nibali wins Tour de France 2 hours ago

Living

Best-Kept Secrets: NC's Inner and Outer Banks a land of pirates, wolves, legends

There is something magical about the land of sunken ships, pirate tales and wild horses that roam the shoreline. Even the names of places evoke a time of swashbucklers and legends.