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Triangle Spokes Group bicycle assembly crew leader Zack Johnson, right, with his father in law Mike Clayton, both of China Grove, assemble new bicycles Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 for the Triangle Spokes Group. They were assembling the last 80 of 550 donated childrens' bicycles. They and three other family members from western North Carolina began assembling the bikes last Friday midday in the Salvation Army Toy Shop on New Bern Ave., Raleigh. The Triangle Spokes Group raised the money to buy the 550 brand new 20 inch and 26 inch Huffy bicycles along with an equal number of helmets to give to children in the area this December.

Holiday Faces 2013

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Fans watch the Philadelphia Eagles play the Detroit Lions as snow falls during first-quarter NFL football game action on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Inquirer, Yong Kim)

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NASHVILLE, TN - DECEMBER 05: Jeff Skinner #53 of the Carolina Hurricanes (R) celebrates his third goal of the game along with Tuomo Ruutu #15 (L) against the Nashville Predators at the Bridgestone Arena on December 5, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Hurricanes defeated the Predators 5-2.

Canes' Jeff Skinner named NHL’s first star of the week

Carolina Hurricanes forward Jeff Skinner has been named the NHL's first star of the week for the week ending Dec. 8, the league announced Monday.

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Bob Kellam, 66, and his wife Susan Wyatt, 65, walk back to their farm production shed Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 after feeding their chickens in their well-ordered 6 acre open space filled with produce gardens, hoop houses and a hot house or two on the Kellam-Wyatt Farm, 731 North Rogers Lane in East Raleigh. The farm couple who grow produce and raise egg-laying chickens have a CSA on the family's 58 acre farm are donating the acreage to the City of Raleigh as a future park from which they will still live and work on their farmstead. Bob Kellam says that the farm acreage now surrounded by development all around is about one-third wooded (pines, oaks, beech, hickory and sweet gum), one-third open ground and one-third lake area.

East Raleigh farm, valued at $3.7 million, donated to city for nature preserve

Bob Kellam and Susan Wyatt's prime land between downtown Raleigh and Knightdale has long been eyed by developers. But the owners instead created what will become a nature preserve, environmental education center and sustainable farming incubator. 20 minutes ago

Business

Specialist Anthony Rinaldi works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. The stock market is opening little changed following last week's strong U.S. jobs report.

Stocks edge higher; Sysco soars on deal news

The stock market is back at a record high after a big acquisition in the food industry and as traders hope that a budget deal could be reached in Washington. 1 hour ago

Politics

Signs warn motorists as they enter the Camp Hatteras National Seashore that the Bonner Bridge over the Oregon Inlet is closed eight miles ahead. The NC DOT deemed the bridge unsafe for vehicles on Tuesday and shut it down due to erosion around support struts.

Road Worrier: SELC denies latte-drinking and defends its lawsuit against NCDOT bridge

Board members for the Southern Environmental Law Center shrug off pressure from Gov. Pat McCrory to drop a lawsuit that has stalled an NCDOT project to replace Bonner Bridge on the Outer Banks. 4 minutes ago

Nation/World News

A painting showing former South African President Nelson Mandela, center, surround by Martin Luther King, left, Mohandas Gandhi, 2nd left, John F. Kennedy, 3rd left, Abraham Lincoln, 3rd from right, Winston Churchill, 2nd right, and Barack Obama, right, is fixed on top the flowers outside Mandela's house in Johannesburg, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Along a street lined with walled mansions shaded by graceful jacaranda trees, mourners black and white by the thousands rubbed shoulders Monday outside the villa where Nelson Mandela died, placing flower bouquets and condolence notes on top of piles already knee-high. Others danced while singing praise for the anti-apartheid leader _ a vivid example of the “Rainbow Nation” unity of race-blind multiculturalism championed by Mandela for South Africa.

'Rainbow Nation' mourners swarm Mandela's mansion

Along a street lined with walled mansions shaded by graceful jacaranda trees, mourners, black and white, by the thousands rubbed shoulders Monday outside the villa where Nelson Mandela died, placing flower bouquets and condolence notes on top of ... 7 minutes ago

Living

The giant acorn will drop at midnight again this year.

Downtown cellphone tower, carousel added as First Night Raleigh celebration grows

This year’s First Night Raleigh will have a solution to the cellular gridlock at midnight. Verizon is working to set up a temporary cell tower near City Plaza to handle the extra calls ringing in the new year.

Entertainment

“Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” features Fred Astaire narrating the story of Kris Kringle.

What to Watch on Monday: The definitive Santa Claus origin story

“Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town,” the greatest Christmas special ever created, features Fred Astaire narrating the Santa Claus origin story – which includes his struggle against the bitter Burgermeister Meisterburger who...

Opinion

McCrory, Tata cast false blame for Bonner Bridge closing

The governor and his DOT secretary take the wrong route on access to the Outer Banks. 7 minutes ago

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