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

Wake County adding 74 jobs to Medicaid office but can't hire yet

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 

School lockers 

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Jet lag Coverage

Qantas flight 7879 left New York's JFK airport Friday night at 9:08 p.m. EDT bound for arrival in Sydney Sunday morning after a total of nearly 20 hours in the air. It is the longest commercial airline flight to date.

Jet lag Coverage

Twenty-hour flight studies the science of jet lag