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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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Metallica Coverage

Summer is the unofficial concert season, when major artists hit the road, taking advantage of the good weather, long daylight hours, and breaks from school. Post-COVID-19 pandemic, music fans seem more eager than ever to stand next to thousands of strangers and scream their favorite songs in front of the artist who wrote them.

The numbers behind the top 10 most in-demand concerts of the summer

Metallica will headline the Epicenter Festival at its new location in Charlotte next May.



Metallica to headline Epicenter Festival in Charlotte next year

Metallica

Metallica rocked PNC Arena on Monday, Jan. 29, 2019, and the crowd was large. Lines of fans started at security entrances and wrapped around the building hours before the show.

Metallica rocks PNC Arena

There is plenty do to in the Triangle this week!

Metallica Coverage

The numbers behind the top 10 most in-demand concerts of the summer

Metallica to headline Epicenter Festival in Charlotte next year

Metallica rocks PNC Arena

Events this week: Metallica, Russell Peters