Police charged a man with threatening city firefighters and Wake County EMS workers with a machete Friday when they answered a medical call in a parking loot at 1823 Capital Blvd.

North Carolina officials say a new rock slide has occurred along a stretch of Interstate 40 already closed by an earlier rock and mud slide just over the Tennessee state line.

Wake County parents can learn how to register kindergartners and other new students at the Southeast Raleigh Positive Youth Development Day event on Saturday.

To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor, mostly young women who visit Planned Parenthood, it is usually just a physical exam by the only health professional they may ever see.

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans was remembered as a vibrant force for good in Durham, in the state and beyond at a funeral attended by about 1,800 mourners Monday at Duke Chapel.

Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.

Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in films, on television and on Broadway in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," has died at age 81.