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A Wake County family has filed a complaint against the school system’s decision to suspend allowing elementary school students to take the new middle school math curriculum. 
State Auditor Beth Wood proves parking tickets were not hers, but the city of Raleigh won’t refund the $245 she paid to remove the boot from her car. 
Kudzu bugs are munching soybeans, annoying homeowners and gardeners ... and spreading rapidly 
Joyce Connolly and her daughters left their home in Hurricane, W.Va., to head south for a Memorial Day beach vacation - and ended up in the center of Tropical Storm Beryl. 
After decorating a veteran’s grave on Sunday, the members of Cary’s Sloan-Franklin Veterans of Foreign Wars Post held a flag retirement ceremony to give tattered, worn banners a respectful send-off. 
When they were little, the Martin girls would watch rockets launch from the sands of a Florida beach, feeling the ground shake, watching the fireball fade to a dot in the sky, knowing their dad had helped aim those spaceships at the moon. Keep up with the latest stories with our free local news e-mail newsletters, delivered straight to your inbox!
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