Medicaid expansion means North Carolina's working poor can go to the doctor for free. It also means billions in new federal funding for hospitals.

After 14 years, billions to flow as 600,000 qualify for Medicaid insurance in NC

More than half a million North Carolinians now qualify for Medicaid 

Students are reported for possession of non-firearm weapons about 20 times as often as they are for firearms. But schools are still relatively safe places, and many crime statistics in schools have been improving for years, experts say. 

Easy to conceal, harder to detect: Knives more prevalent than guns in schools 

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Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam says she is helping to keep her friends' legacies alive in her current run for Congress.

On seventh anniversary of Muslim friends' murder in Chapel Hill, NC official keeping their legacy alive with Congress bid

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Six years ago Wednesday, three Muslim college students were gunned down in their Chapel Hill home.

AMERICAN STUDENTS IN CHAPEL HILL >>> SIX YEARS AGO, THREE MUSLIM COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE GUNNED DOWN IN THEIR HOME IN CHAPEL HILL BY NEIGHBOR CRAIG HICKS. KEELY ARTHUR IS LIVE AT THE FAMILY FORCED CONDOS WERE THE SHOOTINGS TOOK PLACE. >> Reporter: POLICE INITIALLY SAID THIS HAPPENED OVER A PARKING DISPUTE. AFTER PUSHBACK FROM THE VICTIM'S FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY, THE POLICE REVISED THEIR STATEMENT SAYING THE KILLINGS HAPPENED AT THE HANDS OF A MAN WITH A VERY HATEFUL HEART. DEAH SHADDY BARAKAT TRY TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT, SPENT TODAY CLEANING UP THE SHORELINE ON THE SIX YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BROTHER'S DEATH. >> THE CONVERSATIONS I HAVE WITH PEOPLE, I FEEL LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY AND FOR ME ALSO FEEL LIKE IT WAS LIFETIMES AGO. >> Reporter: BARAKAT  WORK HARD TO MAKE THE DETAILS AND EFFECT OF THE 2015 CHAPEL HILL MURDERS RIGHT. THE KILLINGS OF THREE MUSLIM AMERICANS INCLUDING HIS BROTHER, DEAH SHADDY BARAKAT WAS ORIGINALLY  WRITTEN UP AS A PARKING DISPUTE >> IT WAS NOTHING BUT THE FARTHEST AND YOU CAN SEE WAS. >> Reporter: BARAKAT BELIEVES THE KILLINGS WERE  RACIALLY MOTIVATED. KILLER CRAIG HICKS HAD A HISTORY AND HARASSED DEAH SHADDY BARAKAT AND HIS WIFE. HE DISPUTES THE PARKING DISPUTE NARRATIVE  ARC >> I DID NOT THINK IT WAS A DEFINING MILESTONE FOR MUSLIM AMERICANS AND THEIR HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES. >> Reporter: A MUSLIM AMANDA AND FOUNDER OF THE CAROLINA PEACE CENTER THAT ADVOCATES FOR EQUALITY SAID THE INCIDENT RATED IMPORTANT DISCUSSION ABOUT ISLAMIC PHOBIA BUT SAYS WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. YOU THINK THE SITUATION IN TERMS OF TREATMENT OF MINORITIES, PEOPLE OF COLOR HAS IMPROVED SINCE SIX YEARS AGO? >> I THINK IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE, MORE RIGHT WING EXTREMIST HATEFUL GROUPS THAT HAVE COME OUT. NOT ONLY ATTACKING OTHER MINORITY COMMUNITIES NOW, THREATENING OUR DEMOCRACY AND STABILITY OF OUR COUNTRY. ANY DOUBT LEFT, YOU JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENED LAST MONTH THAT THE CAPITOL. >> Reporter: HE IS OPTIMISTIC THINGS WILL IMPROVE AND DETERMINED TO MAKE THAT HIS LIFE'S WORK AND HIS BROTHER'S LEGACY. >> I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD LIVE THAT OLD, I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE YOUNG FOR SOME REASON. I THINK I HAVE TO LIVE OLD NOW. >> Reporter: HICKS WAS NEVER CHARGED WITH A HATE CRIME. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAID THEY DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE FOR THAT. HE IS SERVING THREE CONSECUTIVE LIFE SENTENCES FOR THOSE MURDERS. MEANWHILE, BARAKAT YOU HEARD AN INTERVIEW CREATED THE NONPROFIT, THE LIGHTHOUSE

Man makes it his life's work to continue legacy of slain brother

Farris Barakat, brother of Deah Barakat

Six years later, Chapel Hill murders continue to resonate in polarized nation

Chapel Hill family shot, killed

Five years have passed since Deah Barakat, his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha were killed at their Chapel Hill home, but their friends hope feeding area families will keep their memory alive.

Annual food drive honors memory of Chapel Hill murder victims

A Chapel Hill man pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing three of his neighbors more than four years ago in what prosecutors and the victims' relatives called a hate crime because they were Muslim.

Five years after their deaths, legacy of trio gunned down in Chapel Hill continues to feed people

The Light House Project, a Muslim-based community service organization, reserved a theater at Regal Crossroads theater complex Monday night to show "The Ripple Effect," a documentary that organizers hope will raise awareness about suicide prevention.

Slain student's legacy expands to suicide prevention effort

Documentary aims to make people aware of red flags for suicide

Deah Barakat, his wife, Yusor Abe-Salam, and her sister, Razan, are known as the "Three Winners" for their legacy of giving and Wednesday night the Chapel Hill Town Council honored them with a proclamation.