Sitting in his motorized wheelchair at Brighton Gardens of Raleigh, Jim Stevens lifts his right arm in greeting, but his left is curled against his chest. A stroke has left him unable to navigate and, much to his frustration, unable to speak clearly.

Jerry Jones, the longtime music director at Ridge Road, died in early July.

Three plain bagels and one orange juice. That's how long it took for one of Raleigh's towing titans to hook up Pam Hopkins' minivan and start carting it away.

Now that I'm barreling toward my 40th birthday, my husband takes great delight in threatening to trade me in for a pair of 20s.

As I read the story about Jarrett Brown, 17-year-old pipe bomb suspect from Fuquay-Varina, a quote near the end brought me up short.

It is the week before Phil Wiggins, a 60-year-old schizophrenic, was supposed to be released from Cherry Hospital into his home community.

For 20 years after her mother suffered a debilitating stroke, Linda Gunter's father cared for his wife, carrying her from bed, to wheelchair, to bathroom, without a single accident.

Today, with the dedication of the World War II memorial, the nation takes a moment to honor the men and women who perished in my dad's war.

The bailiff, Jennifer Walker, finished applying her lip gloss, then the judge gaveled the classroom, er, courtroom into order.

Back in the 1980s, a young lawmaker from New Hanover County introduced one of the first bills aimed at lengthening schoolchildren's summer vacation.

On Tuesday, the N.C. Alliance for Health held a rally and news conference and tried its best to look like a force to be reckoned with.

Over eight years of motherhood, I've learned to field a lot of tricky questions: What's it mean to be homosexual? What's a neutron? How do moles breathe? Why do girls like Barbies?

As a licensed clinical social worker, Larry Bernstein knows a lot about body language. As the father of someone who committed suicide, he's an expert.

Last Thursday was another rough day for Pelvia Harris.

It was the fall of 1996 when Mary Judd says God told her to start serving breakfast and a prayer to the homeless and hungry from her sloping front porch off New Bern Avenue in Southeast Raleigh.

The documentary opens with Tanisha Bagley describing the courtship and marriage of her dreams.

Twenty-four-year-old Sarah Packer wasn't even a twinkle in her mother's eye when abortion was legalized in this country, in 1973.