The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office issued an Amber Alert Wednesday afternoon for Malakai Blake Greene, 3 years old. He is 3 feet tall, weighs 45 pounds. He has blonde hair, hazel eyes and a scar on his top lip.

AMBER ALERT: 3-year-old boy missing from Rutherford County. Malakai Greene has blonde hair, hazel eyes and a scar on his top lip

Local families are planning funerals for two 16-year-olds shot and killed while another teenager fights for his life. What a councilman is sharing about the violent trend he's seeing involving more young victims.

On WRAL at 7: 'These are children:' What a local councilman is sharing about the violent trend he's seeing involving more young victims

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Wake County is paying nearly $400,000 to settle a federal, class-action lawsuit filed by emergency medical services (EMS) workers who claimed they were owed overtime money.

NATIONAL STORIES COMING UP IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR OF NBC NIGHTLY NEWS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THIS NEWSCAST, WAKE COUNTY TAXPAYERS ARE ON THE HOOK FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR AN OVERTIME MISTAKE. >> A NEW SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT PAYS MORE THAN 100 CURRENT AND FORMER EMS WORKERS FOR BACK PAY AND DAMAGES. >> WRAL'S CULLEN BROWDER IS SPEAKING OF A BROKE. THE STORY ACTUALLY AT 4 O'CLOCK. AND HE'S NOW LIVE IN RALEIGH WITH HOW IT HAPPENED AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACT BEYOND WAKE COUNTY, COLIN. >> WELL, DEBORAH, CHANGE LAST YEAR, WAKE COUNTY, PARENT, PARAMEDICS AND EMT'S WORK SCHEDULE ON A 48 HOUR WORK WEEK. THEN A 36 HOUR WORK WEEK WILL END WITHIN THAT 2 WEEK INTERVAL WAKE COUNTY WAS SHIFTING AROUND HOURS TO REDUCE OVERTIME. THAT WAS WRONG. WILL NOW THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT? WE'LL PAY THOSE WORKERS. WHAT THEY'RE OWED. >> AT THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC IN EARLY 2021, WAKE COUNTY PARAMEDICS, STEVE CORRELL KNEW SOMETHING WASN'T RIGHT ABOUT HIS OVERTIME PAY. AND THERE WERE A GROUP OF US THAT QUESTION HOW WE WERE GETTING PAID AND THE WAY THAT WE'RE GETTING PAID JUST DID NOT SEEM ACCURATE WITH THE HOURS THAT WE WERE WORKING ON SPECIFIC DAYS COUNTY LEADERS CHANGE THE POLICY WEEKS LATER, BUT GRILL IN MORE THAN 100 FELLOW EMS STAFFERS FELT THEY DESERVED BACK PAY. >> SO THEY HIRED ATTORNEY RYAN OXENDINE TO HELP NEGOTIATE A SETTLEMENT. HOPEFULLY THIS RESULT WELL. >> MAKE PUBLIC ENTITIES. HEY, THERE EMPLOYEES FAIRLY. THE NEW SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT MEANS WAKE COUNTY WILL PAY CLOSE TO $300,000 IN BACK PAY AND DAMAGES TO THOSE WORKERS COVERING A 3 YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. ON TOP OF >> THE COUNTY MUST PAY ATTORNEYS CLOSE TO $81,000 IN FEES AND COSTS A MESSAGE TO OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES DOING THIS TO SHOW THEM. IF THEY ARE, THEY NEED TO GET IT FIXED. SO YOU WANT TO GO DOWN THE LEGAL ROUTE GRILL MOVED ON TO ANOTHER PARAMEDIC JOB. HE'S GLAD HE AND OTHERS SPOKE UP. IT'S A GREAT FEELING KNOWING THAT. >> YOU KNOW, WE WE CAME TOGETHER AS PARAMEDICS AND WE. GOT A FAIR AND JUST OUTCOME. TO SOMETHING THAT WE WORK HARD TO TO GET. YOU KNOW, EMPLOYEES WANT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY UNCOMPENSATED, RIGHT? AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT IT ALL >> SO WAKE COUNTY MANAGER DAVID ELLIS ISSUED A STATEMENT TO WRAL INVESTIGATES LATE TODAY SAYING, QUOTE, THIS WAS AN INTERNAL ERROR. IT WAS NOT INTENTIONAL OR WILLFUL. THE COUNTY HAS MADE CHANGES IN THE WAY OVERTIME IS CALCULATED AND PAY TO ENSURE THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. ELLIS GOES ON TO SAY THAT EMPLOYEES WHO ARE IMPACTED BUT NOT ACTUALLY PART OF THIS LAWSUIT WILL ALSO BE

OT suit settlement will cost Wake taxpayers $395K

Wake Co. EMS failed to pay overtime. Now taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $400K

In a class action lawsuit filed last week, employees of Lowe's home improvement allege the company shorted them owed pay in mis-calculating hours worked, failing to account for hours worked over 40 per week by salaried employees, in a violation of federal law.

Lowe's employees file suit over pay

Lowe's Store Front

The Trump administration has issued a rule that will make overtime pay available to 1.3 million additional workers, though the proposal replaces a more generous one advanced by former President Barack Obama.

Not all workers say overtime rule change a good thing

Labor Department rule aims to extend overtime to more US workers

Sixty-seven people who work for the City of Durham took home more than $10,000 each in overtime pay last year, according to a city audit.

Audit: Durham Fire Department staffer claimed 1,400 hours of overtime last year

Durham Fire Department

An Apex restaurant has paid $53,100 in back wages to 18 employees to resolve a federal investigation into alleged overtime and minimum wage violations, authorities said Thursday.