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Need Valentine’s Day plans?

Food writer Andrea Weigl shares a few ideas for you and your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day...

Ralph Heath teaches a course for the USGS Water Resources Division Training School in 1970.

Life Stories: Because of Ralph Heath’s work, clean water flows for millions

Raleigh hydrologist Ralph Heath used his expertise to better his community in countless ways. Millions...

Sports

Rameses, the mascot for the University of North Carolina leads the Tar Heels on to the court for their game against Syracuse on Monday, January 26, 2015 at the Smith Center in Chapel Hill.

Live Updates: UNC hosting Syracuse

Our live updates and commentary from the North Carolina Tar Heels hosting the Syracuse Orange in ACC action at the Smith Center in Chapel Hill. 1 hour ago

Local/State News

Judith Linder boards a Route 1 Capital Area Transit bus in front of Tarrymore Square shopping center on Capital Boulevard.

Road Worrier: Cost-conscious Wake transit planners get more bang from a bus

While Orange and Durham counties invest high hopes in a modern light-rail line that would run between UNC and Duke, old-fashioned buses are earning new respect as transit priorities in Wake County. 2 hours ago

Business

A shopper examines Cree California-compliant light bulbs on display at a Home Depot in Burbank, Calif., Oct. 27 2013.

Staffing firm laying off 319 who work for Cree

A local recruiting and staffing firm is laying off 319 of its employees who work on a contract basis in Durham for LED lighting company Cree.

Politics

Wake County Superintendent of Schools James Merrill, left, Wake County Commissioner Caroline Sullivan, second from left, Chair of the Wake County School Board Christine Kushner, center, Chair of the Wake County Commissioners James West, second from right, and School Board member Tom Benton, right, listen during a joint meeting between the Wake County Commissioners and the Wake County School Board held at PNC Arena in Raleigh on Jan. 26, 2015. Democrats now control both Boards.

Wake County leaders say property-tax increase needed

At a joint meeting Monday of the Wake County Board of Commissioners and the school board, leaders signaled additional revenue from a property-tax increase will likely be needed soon to help keep up with population growth that is filling schools and...

Nation/World News

Chris Kyle, a retired Navy SEAL and the subject of the new movie “American Sniper,” holds a .308 sniper rifle in this April 6, 2012, photo. Kyle was one of two people killed on a gun range at Rough Creek Lodge near Glen Rose, Texas.

Trial to reveal another angle of ‘American Sniper:’ his slaying

Eddie Ray Routh, who admitted to police that he killed sniper Chris Kyle and the marksman’s friend Chad Littlefield, will have his day in court early next month.

Living

The paleo diet consists of meat from grass-fed animals, including steak. It also allows fish, fruit, vegetables, eggs, nuts, seeds and plant-based oils. The diet forbids items including processed foods and refined sugars.

Paleo diet attracts many, but scientists find it hard to swallow

Proponents of the red-hot "paleo" diet say we should all eat like the cavemen did. Scientists say: Not so fast.

Entertainment

Night Will Fall” looks at the story behind a 1945 documentary commissioned by the Allies under the tutelage of Alfred Hitchcock.

What to Watch on Monday: ‘Night Will Fall’ doc looks at 1945 chronicle of Nazi camps

“Night Will Fall” looks at the story behind a 1945 documentary commissioned by the Allies under the tutelage of Alfred Hitchcock, which captured atrocities in Nazi concentration camps.

Opinion

Wake commissioners should focus on future

Wake County’s Democratic commissioners can take Wake in a new direction – forward. 3 hours ago

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