State Briefs:Wake County school administrators are abandoning plans to use the new Alston Ridge Elementary School as a sixth-grade center for West Cary Middle School.

A search warrant made public Wednesday identifies the Cary police officer who wounded a man carrying what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun Sept. 28.

Cary refuses to allow backyard chicken coops, but the town's defiance has stirred a grass-roots chicken push.

Hundreds of area Muslims gathered Saturday for the annual Eid al-Fitr celebration, a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting.

Police investigating the disappearance and death of Nancy Cooper recently re-examined a cell phone and two address books belonging to her, according to a search warrant made public Friday.

The southbound lanes of Kildaire Farm Road in Cary between Cary Parkway and Tryon Road, where there are at least a dozen paved-over potholes and patches that create an uneven terrain, won't be paved any time soon.

You've heard the old phrase "the blind leading the blind." How about the blind teaching the sighted?

A friend and neighbor of Bradley Cooper claimed this week that Cary police pressured him to say that he helped Cooper try to establish an alibi after Cooper's wife, Nancy, was found dead July 14.

Emergency officials evacuated an industrial building at 10411 Globe Road shortly before noon Wednesday after a 55-gallon drum of muriatic acid was accidentally overturned, Cary officials said.

Gavin John Clevesy, 17, of Apex, faces five felony charges, including first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping, in the assault on a couple, who are in their 60s.

For the sake of two little girls' futures, a Wake County District Court judge will have to wade into unfamiliar territory: Did their daddy kill their mommy?

A Cary police officer shot a man while responding to a call early Saturday in a neighborhood just north of Apex Community Park.