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EDUCATION

Wake school safety task calls for more counselors

A task force recommended Tuesday hiring more counselors but not letting school employees or volunteers carry weapons in Wake County schools. The group’s study and report came in response to the December school shootings in Connecticut.

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ORANGE COUNTY

UNC-CH to stage emergency drill Wednesday

UNC-Chapel Hill will close campus roads around Davis Library for an emergency drill between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday.

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CRIME

Police report fatal shooting in East Durham

Police are investigating the shooting death of a 37-year-old man found Tuesday in the 100 block of North Hyde Park in East Durham. No arrests have been reported.

CRIME

Former Johnston County teacher charged with having sex with student

Officials say Eric Lamar Minter, who taught business education at Smithfield-Selma High School, had sex with a 19-year-old female student at his home in Clayton while he was still employed by the school system.

CRIME

Store manager robbed outside Cary bank branch

Cary police said a manager of a GNC store was robbed Monday night after he drove to a Wells Fargo bank branch on Walnut Street to make a night deposit.

CRIME

Suspect arrested in PNC hold-up and carjacking

Scott Randall Gray, 51, was arrested Monday, accused of robbing the PNC bank at 14400 New Falls of Neuse Road and carjacking a vehicle to facilitate his escape.

CRIME

Cary man charged in Raleigh fatal hit-and-run is freed on bail

Adetoye Tasheed Adekanmbi was free on $105,000 bail and was scheduled to appear in court Monday on two counts of felony hit and run