More than a dozen former employees say understaffing at Brynn Marr Hospital contributes to what they describe as a dangerous place for patients and employees. Hospital officials say allegations of violence, sexual assaults, overmedication and lack of mental health therapy are unfounded.

Former employees say short-staffed NC psych hospital rife with violence, abuse

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The damage and deaths wreaked by these storms in the past 60 years has become legendary in North Carolina's history. Where are the worst hurricanes in North Carolina?

Count down the most destructive hurricanes in NC history

Hurricane Hazel

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Wilson police have made a second arrest in  connection with the Sunday night death of a Goldsboro man.

Officers found Jessie Barnes lying in a vacant lot at Mary Ella  Trailer Park. He had bee shot several times.

Forty-year-old Ray Anthony Moore of Wilson turned himself in to police  Wednesday. He and 34-year-old Marvin Barnes, who was arrested previously,  are charged with accessory after-the-fact to murder.

Police say they hope to make more arrests Thursday

Police Make Second Arrest In Goldsboro Killing

Things will get off to a calm start on Wednesday before our threat of severe weather rises in the evening.

WRAL Weather Alert Day: Calm morning ahead of level 2 risk for severe storms Wednesday evening

Severe risk Wednesday

At 11:58 p.m., officers responded to a report of a gunshot wound in the 2600 block of Lawndale Avenue. When officers arrived, they found a man who had been shot. 

Man shot in west Durham neighborhood, crashes into 2 parked cars

One person shot in Durham, part of Alabama Avenue closed for police investigation

One driver was killed and the other ended up in the hospital facing criminal charges when a dump truck and gasoline truck crashed head-on near a bridge in rural Wake County Tuesday morning.

Dump truck driver charged, gasoline truck driver killed in head-on crash in Wake County

Dump truck, gasoline truck crash head-on in Wake County

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 -- How negative bias affects economic perceptions.

COLUMN: If it bleeds it leads, inflation edition

Worries That Inflation Progress Might Stall

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of the U.S., a senior administration official said Tuesday.

US paused bomb shipment to Israel to signal concerns over Rafah invasion, official says

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Wake County Public School System Superintendent Robert Taylor and Wake County School Board members discussed the county's budget proposal for the district for the 2025 fiscal year. The meeting comes one day after Wake County Commissioners proposed a $49 million increase in funding for the next fiscal year.

Wake superintendent, school board discuss county's budget proposal

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NEW YORK (AP) — Vincent Trocheck couldn't describe the feeling when he finally scored in the second overtime to give the New York Rangers another big win.

Trocheck's power-play goal lifts Rangers to 4-3 win over Hurricanes in 2OT for 2-0 series lead

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Former Carolina Hurricane Vincent Trocheck scored the game winning goal on a power play nearly eight minutes into the second overtime, 4-3 the final.

Canes lose Game 2 against Rangers in double overtime

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Both of the Triangle's professional soccer teams will compete in the all-star The Soccer Tournament (TST) coming in June to WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary.

Courage, NCFC get bracket assignment for The Soccer Tournament

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The fire started around 3 a.m. Seven Cary Fire Department trucks are on scene. It appears that the fire was contained to the garage.

Crews fighting fire at Cary home on Brandywine Lane

At least 7 fire trucks respond to early morning house fire in Cary

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces unleashed a nighttime barrage of more than 50 cruise missiles and explosive drones at Ukraine’s power grid Wednesday, targeting a wide area in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called a “massive” attack on the day the country celebrates the defeat of Nazism in World War II.