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Wake child care trainer takes action after baby's day care death
As a Wake County child care trainer, Krista Barbour's job is to teach day care providers how to keep infants safe. When she heard the story about a 4-month-old boy who suffocated at a Fort Bragg day care, she decided to take action.
Updated 6:05 p.m. yesterday | Read Story
Tax preparer helps nab pair accused of fraud
A local tax preparer working as a government witness led to the arrest of two women charged in a tax fraud scheme involving people suspected of living in the U.S. illegally.
Updated 6:55 p.m. Thursday | Read Story | 27 comments
FBI database no surety in gun sales
After the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, states were supposed to get better about entering court findings of mental illness into a federal database for background checks, but that's not happening everywhere.
Updated May 10 | Read Story | 96 comments

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