Medical examiner testifies that Michelle Young likely suffered blows from a rounded blunt force object and fist.

The SPCA of Wake County is expected to receive at least 14 dogs today that were among more than 150 rescued in the raid of a dog-breeding operation in Stokes County on Tuesday.

A Fayetteville woman charged with selling her 5-year-old daughter as a prostitute has pleaded not guilty in her death, as has the man charged with killing her.

A fingerprint of the man police say was the leader of a small polygamous cult was found on tape used to wrap the body of one of two homicide victims linked to the group, according to search warrants made public this week.

A teary-eyed Meredith Fisher was on the witness stand for much of Tuesday in the retrial of Jason Young, the man prosecutors contend bludgeoned her sister to death.

A man killed in a single-vehicle accident on New Hope Road early Monday morning was traveling over the speed limit and was likely impaired by drugs or alcohol, according to a police report made public Tuesday.

Two Wendell men have been arrested and charged with possession of more than 1 pound of marijuana.

A widely distributed video of a state Highway Patrol trooper kicking his narcotics-sniffing dog brought an outpouring of sympathy for the Belgian Malinois that stumbled to the ground in the 2007 incident.

Jason Young waited 1,693 days to provide an account of his whereabouts in the hours before and after his pregnant wife was found bludgeoned to death.

A 28-year-old Raleigh man who tried to revive his unconscious infant son last month after the child's mother called 911 has now been charged with the boy's murder.

Mayor Harold Weinbrecht says his home security system foiled an attempted home break-in Tuesday morning.

A 29-year-old Raleigh man was arrested Wednesday and charged with trafficking opium.

A UNC wrestler was charged Tuesday night after police officers responded to a call of people fighting near the Varsity theater on East Franklin Street.

Wake County sheriff's deputies jailed a 33-year-old Wednesday on charges that he raped and molested a 12-year-old girl over a period of years.

Steven Gregory Meyer had recently lost both his job and his family. Police say that Meyer, 48, fired on officers and wounded one Monday during a standoff at his Brier Creek apartment. Meyer was found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

Mayor Harold Weinbrecht was the victim of an attempted home break-in Tuesday morning. At about 7:30 a.m., fifteen minutes after Weinbrecht left the house, a man pushed in the door and set off a motion detector.

Police found a shot glass and an empty plastic bag they think contained marijuana in the wreckage of a Jeep Grand Cherokee in which a 17-year-old Millbrook High School student was killed last month, according to search warrants made public Tuesday.

The grand vision for a high-rise public safety center gave way to political reality Tuesday when the City Council embraced a less costly approach that would break the project into phases, starting with a 911 center northeast of downtown.

Race may have been an unconscious factor, but it was never a significant one in jury selection, said a former prosecutor testifying at a death row prisoner's hearing challenging his punishment.