William S. Robinson can't hear the big machines breaking rocks and eating trees 10 miles away -- but he knows they will come soon to smash the handsome brick ranch house he and his wife built, with their own hands, 30 years ago.
Modified: 11/08/09 06:49:19 AM
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Triangle Expressway accelerates
Six people went to hospitals today after exposure to an unknown material at a Knightdale McDonald's. The restaurant at 7141 Knightdale Blvd. was evacuated shortly after 10 Sunday morning.
Modified: 11/08/09 03:18:57 PM
State troopers are looking for relatives of a young man who was hit Saturday night while riding a bicycle near Dunn.
Modified: 11/08/09 12:49:07 PM
Across North Carolina, mental patients are routinely languishing for days in emergency rooms ill-equipped to care for them, waiting for a bed to open at one of four state-run psychiatric hospitals.
Modified: 11/08/09 01:01:32 PM
An eye-opening lesson has unfolded for a group of students who set about mapping where to buy healthful food in their community.
Modified: 11/08/09 04:32:22 AM
The popularity of Wake's magnet programs was evident by the hundreds of people who attended a fair Saturday at Southeast Raleigh High School - even as the program's future is uncertain.
Modified: 11/08/09 04:11:26 AM
Sixteen-year-old Karsyn Bailey loves to show off her battle scars. They run along three sides of her left forearm, the results of surgeries to repair her radius and ulna. She's broken both forearm bones twice doing back handsprings as a competitive cheerleader.
Modified: 11/08/09 04:11:59 AM
Christensen: The first sign of trouble for Democrats occurred in August when 600 people showed up outside the Raleigh office of Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Miller demanding a meeting on health care.
Modified: 11/08/09 04:13:18 AM