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Fall Out Boy in concert with Paramore at Walnut Creek in Raleigh, NC Tuesday night July 22, 2014.

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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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Sports

N.C. State's head coach Dave Doeren works with Dravious Wright (8) during the first day of spring football practice in Raleigh, N.C. Wednesday March 5, 2014.

NC State football adds series with West Virginia

N.C. State has upgraded its nonconference football schedule again. The Wolfpack will play a home-and-home with West Virginia in 2018 and '19, the school announced Wednesday. The Wolfpack will host WVU in 2018 and then travel to Morgantown, W.Va., ... 22 minutes ago

Local/State News

In an effort to help stop algae blooms in Jordan Lake 36 SolarBees are being deployed in the Robeson Creek and Morgan Creek areas of the lake. The solar powered machines are anchored in areas where water may stagnate and helps circulate the water. Video by Chuck Liddy, cliddy@newsobserver.com

Philosophies clash as SolarBee fleet lands in Jordan Lake

This week marks the enactment of North Carolina's unprecedented experiment in water management - and, its engineer hopes, the test case that will show water regulators' errors of omission. Over this week and next, a $1.4 million fleet of 36 water ...

Business

Republican Senator Harry Brown addresses members of both the House and the Senate during a conference committee meeting in the Legislative Office Building in downtown Raleigh on Tuesday, July 15, 2014.

NC Senate gives initial OK to sales tax changes

Debate on legislation that alters how counties can raise local sales taxes opened old fault lines between urban and rural North Carolina. 9 minutes ago

Politics

U.S. Senator Kay Hagan, left, and North Carolina House Leader Thom Tillis

Christensen: Neither Hagan nor Tillis is a winger

Hardly a day goes by that some partisan source issues a news release saying a) that Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan is too left-wing to represent North Carolina or b) that GOP Senate candidate Thom Tillis is too right-wing to represent the state. In fact...

Nation/World News

Flowers lay on the tarmac as a ground Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Dutch Airforce, carrying bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, prepares to take off from Kharkiv airport on July 23, 2014. The first plane carrying bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 23 left eastern Ukraine for the Netherlands. The Dutch military aircraft took off from the airport in the government-controlled city of Kharkiv bound for Eindhoven after the first group of victims' remains were loaded onto the plane in wooden coffins.

Malaysia jet victims' bodies arrive in Netherlands

Victims of the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine returned at last Wednesday to Dutch soil in 40 wooden coffins, solemnly and gently carried to 40 identical hearses, flags at half-staff flapping in the wind. 13 minutes ago

Living

Chapel Hill cookbook author Nancie McDermott on the Craftsy set.

Chew On This: Chapel Hill cookbook author makes her Craftsy debut

Craftsy, a website that offers online classes on sewing, jewelry making and cooking, recently added a Thai cooking class by Chapel Hill cookbook author Nancie McDermott.

Entertainment

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, file photo, Peaches Geldof arrives for the Moet & Chandon Etoile Award, at a central London venue. A British coroner has concluded that model and TV personality Peaches Geldof died from a heroin overdose. Coroner Roger Hatch said Wednesday that Geldof had taken a fatal dose after a period of trying to come off the drug. The 25-year-old daughter of Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof was found dead at her home south of London on April 7.

Coroner: Heroin overdose killed Peaches Geldof

Model and TV personality Peaches Geldof died from a heroin overdose after relapsing from a battle to give up the drug, a British coroner ruled Wednesday. 13 minutes ago

Opinion

Judges show partisanship in striking ACA subsidies

A federal appeals court ruling against subsidies on federal ACA exchanges displays raw judicial partisanship. Only hours later, judges for a similar case in a different court came to an opposite conclusion.

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