Their convictions were overturned and their sentences were commuted. Now, before she leaves office, the governor should grant a full pardon.

Commentary:  Evil entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Friday. After a crime so senseless, with victims so innocent, it's time to grieve. Then it's time to work to keep it from happening again.

Enloe High School’s Student Council is sponsoring a charity ball Saturday to raise money for InterAct, which helps women in abusive relationships.

Not many of us can get away with spending research money on a fancy vacation. But, for a while, it worked for Stacy Nelson, the N.C. State University associate professor who took his family on trips to the beach on the university's dime, ostensibly to study submerged aquatic vegetation.

Gov. Bev Perdue deserves a big "right on" for leasing the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus to Raleigh for a park.

Commentary:  Experts will tell you that there are warning signs that women - and men themselves - should look out for in predicting domestic violence.

Why do I miss Jesse Helms? Because, whatever else you say about Jesse, you never had to guess where he stood. Too bad residents of the 7th Congressional District can't say the same thing about their congressman, Mike McIntyre, who is a DINO - a Democrat in name only.

In a story last week about the unfortunate, untimely death of a dog named Tucker, I told you how his loving, responsible owner left him at the Wake County Animal Center after receiving assurances that Tucker was not a likely candidate for euthanasia.

Commentary:  Danielle Miller took Tucker to the Wake County Animal Center hoping he'd get a new home with room to roam. She changed her mind and wanted her dog back, but by then Tucker had been put down.

Commentary:  Some of his fellow journalists say a person's record is important information, but Barry Saunders would let family members grieve before unpleasant details from the past are released.

Commentary:  I do love the taste of the Thanksgiving bird, but I think it’s not too much to ask that it be treated humanely.

Commentary:  For some, it's just not right to have an Atlantic Coast Conference without Maryland. But money, not sentiment, drove this exit.