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A man convicted of child abuse 13 months ago was arrested early Saturday after neighbors found his 2-year-old daughter walking in the street in a dirty diaper and the front door of his home was left open.

A judge has ordered North Carolina's campus police program to reverse its denial of certification to a man who applied to work as a Duke University campus police officer.

Court proceedings are often about whether someone broke a law. But an inquiry scheduled for Monday into the conduct of suspended Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline will focus on whether she has violated a vague legal standard written to ensure that prosecutors are fit for duty.

Police arrested a man early Saturday on charges that he jumped a $100,000 bond and failed to appear in court in Johnston County to answer charges of manufacturing and possessing methamphetamine and possessing materials used to make the drug.

A Wake County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man Saturday morning after answering a call about a suicide threat and being confronted with a knife at a house on Live Oak Trail, officials said.

A man convicted of child abuse 13 months ago was arrested early today after neighbors found his 2-year-old daughter walking in the street in a dirty diaper and the front door of his home open, with boys 10 and 13 inside, police said.

Police arrested a man early Saturday on charges that he jumped a $100,000 bond and failed to appear in court in Johnston County to answer charges of manufacturing and possessing methamphetamine and possessing materials used to make the drug.

A 15-year-old Virginia girl is considered an endangered runaway and my travel to the Triangle, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said.

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.

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 sheriff's deputy who had been dispatched to the two-story home in the Forest Trails subdivision in northwest Raleigh shot and killed Adam Wade Carter. The Sheriff's Office says Carter confronted the law officer with a knife.

A woman was hit by a car while crossing Duraleigh Road at Pleasant Valley Road, police said.

Two men face kidnapping, robbery and burglary charges in a Friday night home invasion. The victim, who lived on the same road as one of the suspects, was bound with duct tape, Chatham County sheriff's deputies say.

A federal judge delayed sentencing for two weeks in a $2.7 million fraud case involving Dale Fuller, who made a regional name for himself as a professional and amateur golfer.

Two men face kidnapping, robbery and burglary charges in a Friday night home invasion in which Chatham County sheriff's deputies say a man who lived on the same road as one of the suspects was bound with duct tape.

Police had arrested 21-year-old Christopher John Austin early Saturday and charged him with possession with intent to sell marijuana. They said they had found 7 grams of marijuana in his 1996 Chevrolet Caprice.

Prosecutors trying Jason Young on accusations that he murdered his pregnant wife spent much of this week highlighting how long Young waited to provide an account of his whereabouts at the time of the death.

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.

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