A federal affidavit submitted by a Washington, D.C., detective tells a chilling story of the abuse of a 5-year-old adopted boy.

Residents of inner-city Durham got a glimpse of several "brownfields" properties that will be tested for contaminants under a $400,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. Brownfields are areas where environmental concerns hinder development.

Falls Village Golf is trying to reorganize as it seeks protection from creditors.

Today marks the start of the new fiscal year for local governments in the Triangle, which means new or higher fees go into effect for a variety of services.

Scores of proud NCCU alumni have returned to campus this week to commemorate their alma mater's Charter Day, the 100th anniversary of its incorporation.

The auction of two historic downtown Durham buildings was canceled, as the owner appears to have reached an agreement with an unpaid contractor.

Police plan to levy a murder charge against a man accused of shooting his half-brother with a shotgun after the victim died Sunday from his wounds.

City officials plan to use about $30,000 of a $2.17 million stimulus grant to install solar hot water systems on two firehouses.

A Duke University researcher is charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex with a stranger he met over the Internet.

Police say that after he shot his former wife's husband to death early Thursday morning, Randy Tyson Bledsoe drove back to his home on Redwood Road.

N.C. Central University housing officials are scurrying to find spaces for several hundred more freshmen than the university anticipated.

A young fox climbed into a fenced play yard at a Durham day care Tuesday morning and bit a 4-year-old girl.

The county commissioners approved a 2009-10 budget Monday that is 6.2 percent smaller than what they approved a year ago.

An HIV-positive Durham man is charged with using his body as a deadly weapon Saturday in an altercation with a police officer.

After six years of helping nurse injured animals back to health, the Piedmont Wildlife Center will close its clinic at the end of July.

Police in Durham are investigating a shooting Saturday night that sent a 16-year- old girl to the hospital.

Instead of taking the usual route -- corporate finance, investment banking, or marketing -- Lindsay McCombs, a UNC-Chapel Hill business student, will spend her summer as an energy conservation consultant for Grubb Properties, a real estate management firm in Raleigh.