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North Carolina is celebrating its agricultural heritage with the 2012 Got to Be N.C. Festival at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.

“We made sure that the resolution clearly states that any voter identification requirements should be fair, reasonable and readily accessible to all voters,” commissioners Chairman Brian Bock said. “This is an important step in our view to retain public confidence in election results.”

Half a dozen kids knelt on the floor around a cage in the kitten house at Siglinda Scarpa’s Goathouse Refuge, peering at the litter of four-week-old kittens and mama cat inside.

Defense attorney James Glover said Brian Minton drove 20-year-old Josh Bailey to the murder site against his will but did not shoot Bailey. He does not deserve to be convicted of first-degree murder, felony murder or first-degree kidnapping, Glover said.

An overturned tanker has blocked both southbound lanes of U.S. 501/15 at Lystra Road in Chatham County.

After more than 17 years at the conservancy, Kevin Brice has resigned as president, effective April 30.

The glossy, full-color political flier appearing in Durham mailboxes this week brings local politics into the “Super PAC” era on behalf of the controversial 751 South subdivision project.

An accused gunman was slow to admit his role in Josh Bailey’s 2008 death but stuck to his story about how the murder went down, an investigator testified Wednesday.

Oakleaf , a new farm-to-table restaurant, is hoping to be open by May 16 at Pittsboro's Chatham Mills complex.

Although some increase was expected given the dismal market conditions early last year, the market is showing signs of improvement heading into the spring selling season.

On the day his town holds a festival in his honor, Clyde Jones sits discreetly in a lawn chair under a tent, talking to children and wetting a rag to imprint tattoos on their arms.

Homebuilder D.R. Horton is keeping “mineral rights” and transferring them to a subsidiary, DRH Energy. The builder’s policy, in place since 2010, has raised concerns among some homeowners.

A jury will hear opening arguments today in the murder trial of one of nine people charged in the July 2008 slaying of a 20-year-old Chapel Hill man whose body was found in Chatham County.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the Shearon Harris plant, less than 25 miles southwest of Raleigh, has received consistently high marks in a range of performance categories in 2011.

Authorities say the teacher became nauseous after the student spit, poured lubricant oil into the teacher’s water bottle.

A fire that broke out Friday night damaged the Goldston location of the Shed Depot, bringing firefighters from several Chatham County stations.

Salem Elementary School students in Apex recently got the chance to speak with a NASA astronaut Don Pettit via amateur radio while he was aboard the International Space Station.