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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...

Wake Forest and Notre Dame tip off the 2012 ACC tournament in Greensboro on Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

The ACC men’s tournament schedule

Here is the schedule, with results, of the 2014 ACC men’s basketball tournament.

Sports

See News & Observer college basketball beat writers Laura Keeley and Joe Giglio's breakdown the 2014 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament. Video by Joe Giglio, jgiglio@newsobserver.com

ACC tournament final hope for bubble teams looking for NCAA invite

Nine ACC teams enter the conference tournament with .500 or better league records, but four, including NC State, enter the ACC tournament needing to play their way into the NCAA tournament. 19 minutes ago

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. 2 hours 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. 2 hours 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. 7 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. 7 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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