Parade organizers gave Mrs. Santa the boot Friday afternoon, citing worry that children wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Claus and Mrs. Claus if both were wearing red and white suits.
Modified: 11/21/09 05:34:04 AM
A cluster of four Tamiflu-resistant cases of H1N1 flu at Duke University Medical Center has raised concerns that changes in the virus may make severe infections more difficult to treat.
Modified: 11/21/09 06:07:17 AM
The Board of Trustees at N.C. State University voted unanimously Friday to approve an across-the-board tuition increase.
Modified: 11/20/09 09:36:38 PM
Drescher:
Our recent article about Clay Aiken's criticism of the new Wake school board members riled some readers, who didn't think the story belonged on the front page.
Modified: 11/21/09 05:38:35 AM
A different kind of cop now pounds the beat for this town's police department.
Modified: 11/20/09 09:36:43 PM
North Carolina mountain superstitions and prejudices, embodied by eccentric characters with colorful dialects, have made "Dark of the Moon" a theater staple since its 1945 debut.
Modified: 11/20/09 09:36:39 PM
Trouble-shooter:
Andrew Vinal noticed a troubling trend at his pharmacy: He was paying more for a generic version of a prescription drug than for the name brand.
Modified: 11/21/09 07:33:42 AM
More than one in eight North Carolina households had difficulty putting food on the table at some point during 2008.
Modified: 11/21/09 05:39:54 AM
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A prosecutor has told a court martial that a former Air Force nurse killed three terminally ill patients with excessive medication because they were not dying quickly enough.
A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US
More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving
A different kind of cop now pounds the beat for this town's police department.
Fatal accident costs driver, 84, her license for a year
A judge's ruling means a North Carolina sheriff facing obstruction of justice charges can keep his job for now.
Store clerk killing gets NC man life sentence
More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving
When the possibility of budget cuts hit the campus this year, tempers boiled, rumors flew.
Wake schools' budget woes drag on
Fatal accident costs driver, 84, her license for a year
Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal
Ryan Thomas, a 5-year-old battling leukemia, was singing and dancing in her pink room, redecorated with the help of a Cary church group and April's Angels, a nonprofit that helps create fantasy bedrooms for chronically ill children in and near Wake County.
She's 108, and 'I had a good time all my life'
Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
Ala. court says woman can't claim $41.8M jackpot
Pregnant woman seeks help, allegedly robs homes
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