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Wake County's Express Library on Fayetteville Street reopened Wednesday after closing for renovations earlier this summer. The refurbished library now sports a conference room available for nonprofit groups to meet in, as well as new paint and carpeting.
Modified: 09/02/10 06:05:08 AMClasses have been canceled this morning at North Carolina Central University because of a major power outage, university officials said.
Modified: 09/02/10 09:08:28 AM
Gov. Beverly Perdue urged people this morning to follow evacuation orders along the North Carolina coast as Hurricane Earl nears and assured citizens that the state was ready for whatever Earl delivers.
Modified: 09/02/10 12:23:47 PMSteve Parrott, a former telecommunications executive who now runs an investment company, will be the next president of the Wake Education Partnership.
Modified: 09/02/10 11:53:37 AMA North Carolina-based Marine from Idaho has been killed in Afghanistan.
Modified: 09/02/10 08:10:20 AM
Police charged an 18-year-old today with conspiring to murder someone, court records show.
Modified: 09/02/10 11:49:38 AMUnited Way of the Greater Triangle has sets its sights on raising $17.5 million this year.
Modified: 09/02/10 11:30:53 AM
The North Carolina Museum of Art is attempting its own masterpiece: an exhibit that features more authentic Rembrandt paintings than any American museum has yet achieved.
Modified: 09/02/10 04:55:03 AMState troopers should live in the counties where they work and should inform dispatchers by radio anytime someone of the opposite sex is in their cruiser, an advisory panel recommended Wednesday.
Modified: 09/02/10 07:04:59 AM
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Raleigh police pulled over a suspected drunk driver early this morning and ended up arresting two young Raleigh mothers on child abuse charges after two children were found in the back seat.
Modified: 09/02/10 11:16:25 AMNorth Carolina wire More
Firefighters are keeping watch over a slow-burning fire in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but the main concern is smoke along roadways.
Modified: 09/02/10 12:19:58 PMEducation More
Classes have been canceled this morning at North Carolina Central University because of a major power outage, university officials said.
Modified: 09/02/10 09:08:28 AMHealth/Science More
A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants.
Modified: 09/02/10 12:35:21 PMPeople More
Bob Bratcher could read the Bible in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, but he spent a good part of his life trying to make sure others could read it in whatever language was easiest for them.
Modified: 09/02/10 05:42:31 AMWeird More
For a second time, an Ohio woman has given birth to a baby who couldn't wait and arrived on the drive to the hospital.
Modified: 09/02/10 09:15:10 AMNation/World More
An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.
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