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CAMARILLO, CALIF. — Those gas prices dipping below $3 at stations around the Triangle are no illusion. Prices are coming down just in time for the holidays.

The national average price for gasoline went down about 9 cents over the last three weeks, according to a survey released Sunday.

The average price of regular gasoline on Friday was $3 a gallon, mid-grade was $3.12, and premium was $3.24, oil industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said.

The nation's lowest price was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a gallon of regular cost $2.74 on average. The highest was in San Francisco at $3.42, according to the Lundberg Survey of 7,000 stations nationwide.

Gasoline price increases have been arrested by falling crude oil prices,&quot; survey editor Trilby Lundberg told Reuters.

&quot;On Dec. 7, the day we surveyed at the pumps, benchmark West Texas Intermediate closed at $88.28 a barrel. It had reached as high as $98.18 on Nov. 23.&quot;

Lundberg said that higher gasoline prices halted growth in gasoline demand, Reuters added.

&quot;And there is no shortage of either crude oil or gasoline,&quot; Lundberg explained to Reuters. &quot;OPEC's 'no change' stance at its latest meeting had very little effect.&quot;

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Two boys were shot in separate incidents in Durham Thursday, bringing the total of those under 18 shot so far this year to at least 15, according to police.

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A Durham City Council member has been accused of supporting developers in exchange for donations, according to a statement read by Durham Mayor Elaine O'Neal in a council work session on Thursday. 

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People flock to Low and Slow Smokehouse at Johnston County Regional Airport for the views. They stay -- and come back again and again -- for the food.



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Extra security will be in place at Knightdale High School on Friday after a threat posted to social media.



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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brothers Eric and Marc Staal of the Florida Panthers declined to wear special Pride-themed warmup jerseys ahead of the team’s 6-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday.

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Adam Fox ended a 24-game stretch without a goal and the New York Rangers overcame the Carolina Hurricanes for a 2-1 victory Thursday night.

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A 21-year-old man faces charges of possessing a weapon on educational property and carrying a concealed weapon after a weapons detection system alerted when he entered Clayton Middle School Tuesday to pick up his sisters.

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UNC's Kennedy Todd-Williams and NC State's Camille Hobby announced they would look to transfer to other schools Thursday.

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Two 16-year-old boys are dead and another 16-year-old boy is in the hospital from a shooting in Durham on Tuesday.