When a United States senator takes out a full-page ad in the local paper to get his message out, that gets readers' attention.

The News & Observer faced a dilemma recently. The editors learned that family advice columnist John Rosemond had been cutting ethical corners that violate newspaper standards. He had recycled old columns to his 200-plus newspaper clients without disc

The News & Observer last week made a lot of readers mad, deliberately.

Does anyone remember the beginning of the National Hockey League playoff season? Was it in 2006? The protracted playoffs have been running since April 22, and The News & Observer has been there every step of the way, following the Carolina Hurricanes

Journalists hate to be wrong. Even more, we hate to admit we're wrong. That's why it's so painful for newspapers to issue corrections to the inevitable errors that occur when you publish the equivalent of a small book each day, then another the next day.

Maybe you’ve noticed: Increasingly, stories in The News & Observer are not really stories. They’re ASFs.

Some readers are pleased to find their pictures on the front page of The News & Observer. Leah Willis of Clayton is not one of them. Willis' photo was used Wednesday to illustrate a Page One story headlined "Playoff price hike angers fans.

Okay, obituary lovers. You win. In recent weeks, regular readers of death notices let us know in their own kind ways that they did not appreciate changes made last month in The N&O's paid obit listings. "Atrocious," "annoying,

What's going on with the obituary column?" It was Jim Wiggins of Louisburg who asked that question last week, but he was speaking for a good many death-page devotees who have contacted the public editor in recent weeks to complain about changes in The News & Observer's obituary columns.

Internet users, beware. The newspaper could be looking over your shoulder. That warning label perhaps should be pasted on community forums, chat rooms and other online gathering places as, increasingly, we communicate with each other.

The calls and e-mails started pouring in within hours of the DNA report last Monday. The words differed, but the message was the same: When is The News & Observer going to 'fess up that it got the Duke sexual assault story wrong?

The robbery was reportedly the largest in Wake County history -- a small fortune in jewelry, electronics and other property stolen from a home in the western suburbs. A couple were arrested in Colorado, after selling off most of their haul at pawnshops from Florida to Colorado.