A woman, formerly of Raleigh, who snatched a newborn baby from a New York City hospital in 1987, then raised the child as her own for more than two decades, pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge Friday as the girl's true mother wept in the courtroom.

The fire department suspects arson in a fire that burned down a Raleigh home early this morning.

Keith Adams says he simply wanted to reclaim more than 30 of his paintings that were inside Bistro 155, a restaurant that had recently closed.

Police say one of their officers shot at a man who attempted to run him over in the parking lot of a bowling alley Thursday night.

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Police arrested a second man Thursday in the killing in August 2010 of Larry Timberlake, 52.

A former Raleigh resident accused of kidnapping a 3-week-old girl from Harlem Hospital in 1987, then raising the child as her own, is expected to plead guilty to charges in New York federal court today.

A woman who owns a house in southern Wake County where police discovered 24 marijuana plants and 4.75 pounds of clippings was arrested Thursday, joining three others already facing drug charges.

Court dates have been scheduled for the 30 protesters who were arrested at Wake County school board meetings in 2010.

Durham County commissioners told the new gang-reduction strategy manager this week to make sure the public knows what he's doing and how to get involved.

A medical examiner's report on the death of a 19-year-old Raleigh man due to a drug overdose raises more questions about the level of observation provided by Wake County jail staff in the hours after he was incarcerated.

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg school bus that caught fire Wednesday afternoon was the same make and model as other buses that have gone up in flames in North Carolina in the past two years, prompting state officials to send at least one cautionary memo to school systems.

A Wake County investigator testified Thursday during the Jason Young murder trial that he called Raleigh-Durham International Airport during his investigation to find out whether any small planes had landed Nov. 3, 2006, from southwestern Virginia.

Police have charged a driver in an accident where a 52-year-old woman was hit by a car while crossing Duraleigh Road at the intersection of Pleasant Valley Road on Thursday evening.

The number of homegrown terrorism plots hatched by Muslim-Americans has declined over the last three years, and such plots remain relatively rare despite public fears, according to a study by a UNC-Chapel Hill sociology professor.

One of four people charged with vandalizing the 10-story Greenbridge condominium building last year has had his case dismissed after the prosecutor said he could not prove the man did anything more than offer muffins to a lobby desk clerk.

An investigation into bootleg DVD trafficking led to the arrest of a WakeMed employee for drug possession.

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

Authorities seized a roughly 1,000-gallon still Tuesday night just outside Benson.