Two weeks after the death of a 16-year-old girl at an intersection near Cary Park, town officials and the state Department of Transportation have agreed on plans to try to make the crossing safer for pedestrians and drivers alike.

The Army has named a 47-year-old North Carolina native as the first female commandant of its only drill sergeants' school.

Both Democratic and Republican senators shed tears and shared memories Thursday of Sen. Vernon Malone, a Raleigh Democrat who died April 18.

Gov. Bev Perdue has picked six new members for the state Board of Transportation. All but one of them, Durham lawyer Chuck Watts, gave money to Perdue's campaign last year.

MJ sang "don't stop 'til you get enough." Chapel Hill's growth task force's new motto may be "don't start 'til you get enough."

The 16-year-old from Oxford arrested this spring after bomb threats were were made to numerous colleges will be tried as an adult in federal court.

Chapel Hill Town Councilman Matt Czajkowski filed with the Board of Elections to run for mayor this morning, saying taxes are too high, the town is growing too fast and downtown is moribund.

Over 500 Durham warrants were cleared and about 250 Durham criminals were arrested last month during a nationwide federal initiative aimed to help local police departments catch their most wanted criminals.

The stepson of a man who shot and killed a North Raleigh cinema manager was given a sentence of at least five years in prison for his role in the crime.

Wake Democrats and Republicans are getting into the act for this fall's school board races.

The Department of Defense says a soldier from North Carolina who was based in Germany has died from wounds sustained when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle in Afghanistan.

Cary police report that since June 6, there have been three reported cases of indecent exposure in the Williamsburg Manor/Nottingham Road area.

The longtime president of Greensboro College resigned abruptly this week.

A state House committee examining a fix for an underfunded coastal insurance program has rejected a bid to keep the current coverage maximum at $1.5 million per home.

North Carolina consumers are getting a glimpse at how much of the state has broadband Internet access and where people are stuck with slower dial-up service.

Since Saturday, three bodies have been recovered from Jordan Lake, a typical summer's worth of apparent drownings in five days.

Raleigh police say the car belonging to a woman found dead in Raleigh may have been in southern Florida.

A former fundraiser at N.C. State University who worked closely with former first lady Mary Easley talked Wednesday with federal agents about her job at the university.

When it opens Tuesday, the McDonald's at 1299 Kildaire Farm Road will be the country's first McDonald's with an electric vehicle charging station.

False reports are common among the only technologies available to detect ovarian cancer, a disease that killed an estimated 15,500 women last year in the United States.

Saunders:OK, the good news first. Jim Cole finally found out what happened to his old Navy buddy "Fowler."

Anthony Bimbo admitted Wednesday that he was behind a botched plan to rob a North Raleigh movie theater that ended in the theater manager's murder.

Three people were shot and killed Wednesday evening after a domestic dispute at a Rocky Mount residence in what police are calling a double murder and a suicide.

North Carolina lawmakers have postponed a vote on altering the state's law allowing involuntary property annexation until they know what some changes could cost.

Patrick Burris, the North Carolina man who killed five people in Cherokee County, S.C., had planned to marry his girlfriend of two years.

Police were looking for a man they think shot three people at a home in East Raleigh on Wednesday morning.

Contractors having a hard time moving unsold homes they've built in North Carolina can delay paying property taxes on them for up to three years in legislation given final approval.

The president of a debt-ridden North Carolina private college stepped down Wednesday after several months of controversy over his leadership and the school's mounting debt.

A month ago, the backyard of the duplex at Chamberlain Street and Mayview Road was crammed with bicycles. The co-op 1304 Bikes used the space as a makeshift community repair shop and its center of operations.

Wake County has closed the swimming areas at Beaverdam Beach and Sandling Beach on Falls Lake because of elevated levels of bacteria in the water.

A former Chapel Hill stockbroker has pleaded guilty to several crimes related to securities fraud following an investigation by the N.C. Secretary of State's Securities Division.

It was only faked sex, performed on a Myrtle Beach, S.C., pier by a group of student filmmakers. But the performance landed eight artists in jail for 12 hours, got their mug shots flashed around the Internet, and may ultimately turn them into folk heroes.

The new station evokes the past, with dark bead-board paneling, wooden benches and information racks resembling old-time post-office pigeonholes.

Under the Dome:A bill that would all but guarantee attorneys fees for those who sue over public records cleared a key committee Wednesday.