60 NOTE: House Speaker Joe Hackney is not obligated to vote except in cases to break ties. www.newsobserver.com/1596388 Three of the workers who died in Saturday's fireworks explosion on Ocracoke Island went to the same church in Goldsboro, and a fourth victim whose death was announced Sunday had visited the church. www.newsobserver.com/1596387 One person died and another escaped an early-morning house fire Sunday at 12th and Killiegrey streets, police officials said. www.newsobserver.com/1596386 Rescue crews were searching Sunday for the body of a teenager who officials said likely drowned that morning in the Neuse River near Oriental. www.newsobserver.com/1596385 When Ed Hamlin decided in his late 60s that it was time to enroll in law school, those closest to him were not surprised. In fact, his wife, Doris Hamlin, was all for it. www.newsobserver.com/1596384 An affable rising senior and hockey player for N.C. State University drowned on Independence Day while trying to swim across a cove in Jordan Lake, officials said Sunday. www.newsobserver.com/1596382 At 16, Frank Buckles was too young to fight in World War I, but he enlisted in the Ambulance Service of the U.S. Army and set sail for France anyway, where he drove toward the shell-shattered front-line trenches to fetch the wounded and the dead. www.newsobserver.com/1596381 Two distinct narratives are at war in a controversy over whether North Carolina should cut as much as $100 million over two years from in-home care for older and disabled people. www.newsobserver.com/1596378 Most state agencies fall far short in providing taxpayers with access to information about their work, according to a new survey of transparency in government. www.newsobserver.com/1596376 Some people share their greatest intimacies in the car, when everyone is facing forward, moving and looking straight ahead. www.newsobserver.com/1596375