Henny Penny the chicken lives in pseudo-secrecy, known by her neighbors but banned by the town of Cary. Visits from the meter reader and government employees bring the threat of fines and confiscation for Henny Penny and her coop-mate.
Updated Feb. 11, 2012 4:14 AM | Full Story

Suspended Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline says she wants to delay an inquiry set to begin Monday that will determine whether she should be permanently removed from her elected office.
Updated Feb. 11, 2012 5:16 AM | Full Story

Prosecutors trying Jason Young on accusations that he murdered his pregnant wife spent much of this week highlighting how long Young waited to provide an account of his whereabouts at the time of the death.
Updated Feb. 11, 2012 5:18 AM | Full Story

Ryan O'Reilly scored on a slap shot with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime and Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped a season-high 39 shots in the Colorado Avalanche's 4-3 victory over the Carolina ...
Updated Feb. 11, 2012 5:37 AM | Full Story

Hours after the Smith Center emptied and the cameras left, long after he and his North Carolina teammates went their separate ways, Tar Heels point guard Kendall Marshall lay awake in the early hours of Thursday morning with certain parts of Duke's 85-84 victory against UNC playing on a loop in his mind.
Updated Feb. 11, 2012 5:45 AM | Full Story

Forget about Duke's comeback win over North Carolina. The evidence from this season suggests that the Blue Devils' biggest test of the week will come today when Maryland comes to Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 11:22 PM | Full Story

Lawyers for John Edwards on Friday issued statements that said the hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenditures incurred last year by the campaign committee of the former presidential candidate were above board.
Updated Feb. 11, 2012 5:11 AM | Full Story

Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for workers, scrambling to end a fu...
Updated Feb. 11, 2012 3:58 AM | Full Story

The state's largest civil rights group, the NAACP, is asking voters to reject what it says is an invitation to discriminate.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 11:22 PM | Full Story

Well, the fifth time was the charm. After standing the Triangle up four times on concert dates since 2005, Aretha Franklin finally showed up, holding forth Thursday night at the Durham Performing Arts Center.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 9:06 PM | Full Story

Live music in Durham has ebbed and flowed over the years, but it's been on a definite upswing the past year and a half - and Motorco Music Hall, a 500-or-so-capacity club near the old Durham Bulls baseball park, is one of the key players.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 10:32 AM | Full Story

Scotty McCreery, the reigning "American Idol" from Garner, has received a double dose of good news - he now has a second gold single, and he's up for a second country music award.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 11:47 AM | Full Story

Soon Chipotle lovers will no longer have to leave the Streets at Southpoint in search of one of the chain's burritos.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 8:16 PM | Full Story

North Carolina has logged no net job growth in the last 12 years, having fewer jobs at the end of 2011 than it did in December 1999, according to a report released Friday by the Chapel Hill research firm South by North Strategies.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 8:16 PM | Full Story

Top executives at United Continental Holdings Inc. usually don't field questions about 1980s Matthew Broderick films during conference calls to discuss the airline's quarterly profits. But they did during a recent earnings call.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 8:16 PM | Full Story

Well, the fifth time was the charm. After standing the Triangle up four times on concert dates since 2005, Aretha Franklin finally showed up, holding forth Thursday night at the Durham Performing Arts Center.
Updated Feb. 10, 2012 9:06 PM | Full Story

Where, oh where are all the birds this mild winter?
Updated Feb. 9, 2012 3:45 PM | Full Story

John Rottet, whose work has been featured in the 'Scapes column in Home & Garden since April 2004, is retiring after 30 years as a photojournalist for The News & Observer. The photo column was to "explore the beauty of nature, the elegance of architecture and the details of the surroundings that make our community unique." Here are a couple of his memorable photos of nature. Above, a Cope's gray tree frog (Hyla chrysoscelis) clings to ornamental grass in a small backyard pond in northern Durham County. These frogs produce a lovely flute-like trill, particularly on summer nights after a thunderstorm.
Updated Feb. 11, 2012 4:38 AM | Full Story