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This year marks the 65th annual lighting of the WRAL-TV tower in Raleigh, an annual tradition that has grown to include celebrations with towers at American Tobacco Campus in Durham and Rocky Mount Mills.

WRAL lights towers in Raleigh, Durham and Rocky Mount

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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Make America Great Again Coverage

Monday, March 25, 2019 -- The Mueller Report did not exonerate President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice. I submit that we witnessed that Trump obstructed justice in open view, from the White House and on social media. While Trump waged a two-year battle of slander and misinformation to defame the Mueller investigation, the majority of Democratic leadership did nothing to make the case that he had already reached the threshold of accountability, even without the report. Instead, they put too many eggs in the Mueller basket, and allowed Trump to move the goal posts. Indeed, now the goal posts are permanently affixed to skates.

CHARLES BLOW: It's bigger than Trump

This California student was arrested for throwing a classmate’s MAGA hat and slapping a teacher

A California high school student is challenging her school's dress code after being told she can't wear her "Make America Great Again" hat on campus.

Make America Great Again Coverage

CHARLES BLOW: It's bigger than Trump

Calif. student challenges MAGA hat ban