A UNC-Chapel Hill HIV/AIDS doctor has received the school's highest faculty award.

A man who robbed two Subway restaurants earlier this year may have struck again Wednesday night, according to Raleigh police detectives.

After more than four hours of closed-door meetings Thursday, members of the City Council still aren't ready to offer the city manager's job to one of three finalists.

In a statement that defied the legal advice of the state's attorney general, Gov. Mike Easley tells community colleges that they can set their own admission standards, which currently welcome students regardless of their immigration status.

Two days after a Clayton man was charged with being married to two women at once, a third woman came forward to say that she, too, is married to him.

For the next two weeks, History Flight, a traveling nonprofit concern, will let anyone climb the wing of a World War II-era plane, buckle him- or herself into the cockpit and turn a barrel roll over the Franklin County woods.

Gov. Mike Easley's proposed state budget for 2009 includes proposals for $31 million for programs to benefit uninsured children, farm and poultry plant workers and sexual assault victims.

Members of a panel formed by Gov. Mike Easley appear headed toward approval of a plan that would require training on the public records law for most state employees and improvements to government e-mail servers that would archive messages for a number of years.

Using the eye-catching techniques he learned peddling products for corporations, artist Ray Noland has created posters and paintings to convey what he sees as the energy and possibility of an Obama presidency.

Sheehan:Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall is caught in the death penalty's wicked cross-currents.

Forecasters are predicting a wet and stormy Mother's Day and warn that severe weather is possible as well.

The annual N.C. Peace Officers Memorial Day Ceremony will be 11 a.m. today at Englewood Baptist Church, 1350 S. Winstead Ave. in Rocky Mount.

The murder suspect, who killed himself while in prison, was not treated with respect, Sarah Chandler's claim says.

Proposals to streamline Durham's development-review process will be rolled out over the next nine months. The first installment emerged Thursday, drawing praise from several City Council members.

Triangle Briefs: Matthew M. Sears, a math teacher at Hillside New Tech High School this week was named the 2008 SunTrust Gold Star Teacher of the Year for Durham Public Schools.

Triangle Briefs: UNC Chapel Hill officials are asking the General Assembly to grant the UNC system the power to create airport authorities, a step toward a new airport in Orange County.

Local civil rights groups have asked the Chapel Hill Town Council to update the town's picketing rules and form a civilian review board to monitor police conduct.

Triangle Briefs: Kidzu Children's Museum has been awarded a $100,000 "Educational Innovation" grant by the Grable Foundation of Pittsburgh to support education and outreach programs, exhibit development and other operating expenses.

State law is murky about who pays and who is to blame.

Triangle Briefs: Police have found a transfer truck that was stolen last week. Still missing: its trailer with a cargo of booze.

Triangle Briefs: A driver involved in a collision that killed a pedestrian south of downtown this week has been charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle, police announced Thursday.

Triangle Briefs: School board candidate Leigh Bordley, a runner-up Tuesday in the election for the board's at-large seat with 34.5 percent of the votes, will seek a runoff.

The House on Thursday passed a massive homeowner rescue plan to provide cheaper, government-backed mortgages to half a million debt-ridden borrowers and bolster an economy crippled by the housing crisis.

Folks had been fretting for months about whether Jeffery "J.R." Richardson, who led the Broughton High School marching band to the prestigious Tournament of Roses parade in January, would retire at the end of the school year as expected.

Charlotte City Attorney Mac McCarley said Thursday that public information requests for e-mail had become so burdensome that top officials had quit sending sensitive messages for fear they might become public.

One person was killed and three others injured in what authorities say was a tornado that moved through central North Carolina, said Patty McQuillan, spokeswoman for the state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

Under the Dome:U.S. Rep. Brad Miller is the latest North Carolina superdelegate to endorse Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president.

A new agricultural industry may emerge in North Carolina from the abandoned office of an old one. A former federal tobacco research station in Oxford reopens today as the new headquarters of the Biofuels Center of North Carolina.

Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.

Two people were killed Thursday when a home-built airplane crashed in Greene County, authorities said.

A dozen refugees from Myanmar attend Raleigh's Christ Covenant Church, and many are desperate to learn more about the devastating cyclone that struck the country nearly a week ago.