A 17-year-old Lumberton High School student will be suspended for a full year after staff found a handgun and marijuana in his car on Thursday.

Lumberton High School student found with gun, drugs in car

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Approximately 790,000 acres of North Carolina farmland are foreign-owned. WRAL Investigates why proposed legislation to prevent national security risks from countries like China, Russia, and North Korea could potentially hurt farmers.

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Medicaid expansion takes effect Dec. 1 in North Carolina, and 5 On Your Side is helping answer your questions about the change. 

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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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Elk Coverage

A herd of elk blocked traffic with their crossing near Elk Meadow Park

BE CLOSED FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. WRAL IS A PROUD SPONSOR OF THE EVENT. >> IT IS NOT EVERY DAY THAT YOU WITNESS A HERD OF ELK CROSSING A BUSY STREET, BUT IT'S JUST ANY OTHER DAY IN EVERGREEN, COLORADO. THIS WAS THE SCENE RIGHT NEAR WHILE YOU'D EXPECT ELK MEADOW PARK. YEAH, IT'S PROBABLY HOW THE AREA GOT ITS NAME. ONE DRIVER RECORDED ALL THOSE ELK ON A CELL PHONE AS THEY CASUALLY STROLLED ACROSS THE STREET AND JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OVER, ANOTHER GROUP DECIDES TO JOIN THEM. OF COURSE, THE DRIVERS WEREN'T GOING TO ARGUE

Cars yield to elk in Colorado

Colorado survives violent golf course encounter with an angry bull elk.

way won't forget this course at all of my foursome. Definitely wanna forget this course. The plan was to play one last game on a nice course before the weather changed. Unfortunately for Zach born Hoffs Group as they approached the 17th tee and evergreen, the course hadn't unexpected hazard. We were kind of surrounded by the elk like there wasn't, uh it wasn't really a simple way out. Born Hoff, who was riding passenger in his golf court, said he and his friends tried not to make any dramatic movement as they made their escape. I'm like, Hey, let's just keep it slow And like a second after I said that it was like game on and he came just directly at us. A live picture taken by one of born Hoffs friends captured audio from the moment a bull elk pierced born off sign and that's when he stuck me right in my right side and then came into where my kidney would have been born Off, says his kidney was broken into three pieces. Denver Parks and Recreation, which oversees the course, said park rangers and staff alert golfers to avoid specific holes or leave their balls when elk er on the course. The city says similar injuries haven't happened in recent years. Look, it's definitely a special situation and and, you know, just happened to be me Born Off says he hopes what happened to him will motivate others toe learn what to do in similar situations. In the meantime, he's using that humor toe. Help him recover until he returns to days of better sleep driving and playing with his seven kids again. A lot of things they can't do. But one thing I can do is breathe that I'm happy about that. Jordan Chavez nine News.

Elk Coverage

Cars yield to elk in Colorado

Gored on the green: Elk encounter injures golfer