Court proceedings are often about whether someone broke a law. But an inquiry scheduled for Monday into the conduct of suspended Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline will focus on whether she has violated a vague legal standard written to ensure that prosecutors are fit for duty.

A trailer loaded with bales of pine straw tipped over on the eastbound side of I-40 just before noon Sunday, backing up traffic for a time.

The case of a teenager who had to untuck her shirt and pull out her bra with her thumb as part of a search for pills at an alternative school in North Carolina is headed to the state Supreme Court.

A Wake County sheriff's deputy who had been dispatched to the two-story home in the Forest Trails subdivision in northwest Raleigh shot and killed Adam Wade Carter. The Sheriff's Office says Carter confronted the law officer with a knife.

Orange County firefighters responded to four house fires overnight, Raleigh units battled one and Johnston County firefighters responded to a blazing abandoned building as wind gusts in the Triangle topped 30 mph.

A two-car crash just after 10 a.m. Sunday sent at least two people to WakeMed Cary hospital and closed Southwest Cary Parkway into mid-afternoon.

Two Orange County teenage girls died Saturday when a car that one of them was driving ran off a gravel portion of Buckhorn Road and hit a tree, state troopers said.

Every day, thousands of trucks and cars fill their fuel tanks in South Carolina or Virginia on the drive up Interstate 95, to avoid paying North Carolina's higher fuel tax.