The Wake County Sheriff’s Office closed Banks Road between Chelsea Drive and Shield Circle Saturday night as they negotiated with someone who had barricaded themselves inside a home.

Banks Road in southern Wake County closed due to standoff

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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Medicaid expansion in North Carolina will begin Dec. 1, 2023

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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Richard Gere, 69, and wife Alejandra welcome baby boy