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

More than half a million North Carolinians now qualify for Medicaid 

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 

Feb. 29, 2012, testimony and proceedings in the murder trial of Jason Young, accused of killing his wife, Michelle Young, in November 2006.

<em>Editor's note: Part 7 of Day 18's testimony – the cross-examination and redirect of Marty Ludas – is unavailable due to technical issues.<br />

Jason Young retrial (Day 18)