A 17-year-old Lumberton High School student will be suspended for a full year after staff found a handgun and marijuana in his car on Thursday.

Lumberton High School student found with gun, drugs in car

Approximately 790,000 acres of North Carolina farmland are foreign-owned. WRAL Investigates why proposed legislation to prevent national security risks from countries like China, Russia, and North Korea could potentially hurt farmers.

On WRAL at 6: Foreign governments buying NC land: WRAL Investigates its impact on farmers and national security.

Medicaid expansion takes effect Dec. 1 in North Carolina, and 5 On Your Side is helping answer your questions about the change. 

Call Dec. 5 to get answers about Medicaid in NC

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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For years, a rusted graveyard of Gremlins and Pacers has been rusting and rotting away at Collier Motors in Pikeville. Now, as the owners attempt to sell the business, they are sell the remaining AMC cars

AREA, METEOROLOGIST MIKE MAZE WILL HAVE MORE ON OUR AIR QUALITY IN JUST A BIT. DEBUTS A NEW WORD, HIDING, HIDING OUT SOMETHING TO THAT. >> RESTED AND RIDE IT OUT. CARS OLD HAS BEEN SCREWED. CASTAWAYS. TONIGHT WE FIND OUR TAR HEEL TRAVELER BACK AT A PLACE HE FIRST FEATURED IN 2011 SCOTT MASON GIVES US AN UPDATE ON COLLIER. IS MOTORS IN THE WAYNE COUNTY TOWN OF PIKEVILLE. OKAY. COME ON. AND IT IS NOT EXACTLY A GRAVEYARD OF OLD CARS. SOME OF THE PARTS STILL HAVE LIFE. ALTHOUGH THE CASKET IS CLOSING. ALL OF THE OTHER NOTABLE ARE NOTEWORTHY OR YOUR NOTORIOUS. AND I THINK WE'RE A LITTLE BIT OF ALL THOSE WERE NOTORIOUS FOR LEAVING THESE CARS OUTSIDE THESE POOR CAR. >> LEFT OUTSIDE FREEZE. WE HAVE GREMLINS HORNETS, PACERS. MOST OF THEM ARE AMC CAR CARS ALMOST ROUND AMC WAS BOUGHT OUT IN 1987. THIS IS AROUND THE 65 OR 6 RAMBLER CLASSIC. AND IT'S BEEN BUTCHERED TO SAVE ANOTHER CAR. >> FOR PARTS, YES, FOR PARKS. YOU AMC. CALL YOUR MOTORS IN PIKEVILLE COLOR HAS BEEN SELLING CARS AND BUYING CARS SINCE 19. 0, 4, THE CARS. THE SAFETY TO RAMBLER CLASSIC HAS PUSH BUTTON DRIVE THAT UNUSUAL. YEAH, IT IS A PRETTY COLD. THAT'S A CORE ARE BACK THERE FROM 1967. WITH ORIGINAL HEADLIGHT. THIS IS WHAT CAME ON THE CAR WHEN IT WAS BRAND NEW. EVERYTHING HERE. WE HAD A GOOD HEART IS OPPOSITE OF NEW. WE'RE FOCUSING ON GETTING RID OF THE CARS. 2 OWNERS NOT WANT TO JUST CRUSH THEM, GET FINDING OWNERS FOR THAT LIGHT. THAT AMBASSADOR OUT THERE BEHIND YOU. THAT'S A 4, ONE AMBASSADOR WAGON. VERY RARE CAR. >> YOU CAN FIND THEM AND I HAVE ONE HERE. HERE IS WHERE ROBBIE AND HIS DAD BOBBY WORKED TOGETHER SIDE BY SIDE. THEY SAY THIS PLACE IS SORT OF A LEGEND OR A MYSTERY. AMC WAS THEIR LIFE HAS BEEN THE WHOLE THING. BOBBIE COLLIER STARTED SELLING AMC'S IN 1955, WHAT ARE THEY REPRESENTED COME TO THAT. >> A GOOD GARZA. BOBBY COLE YEAR PASSED AWAY IN 2018 IS CAR AROUND HERE HAD A STORY TO IT. MY DAD KNEW HIM. HE IT WAS HIS PLEASURE TO SHOW PEOPLE AROUND HERE. WE'VE HAD PEOPLE FROM THE NETHERLANDS AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. THERE ARE STILL MORE THAN 200 CARS. IT'S SORT OF ROUGH AND OLD. VW BUG. CAN YOU SELL PART OFFICE WHERE I ANYTHING HERE IS FOR SALE. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT BEING THE END OF AN ERA? IT'S THIS BITTERSWEET ENDING BECAUSE OF ALL THE MEMORIES THAT MY FIRST CAR, ANOTHER RAMBLER MASH, HALEY ROADSTER ARRAY OR BEAUTY. WELL, BILL, I MEAN, ALL THE TOLERANCES AROUND ALL THE SCENES ARE JUST PERFECT. PAUL HAND BUILD. THESE THINGS DIDN'T GO IF THE RESTORE THE GOPHER $125,000, BUT IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT THE MONEY. SO THIS IS AN EARLY HEADS BACK. IT'S THAT THE CARS ARE A WINDOW TO ANOTHER TIME. AND NOW WORD ACTIVELY TRYING TO FIND NEW OWNERS FOR ALL THESE CARS. MAY THEY REST OR RESURRECT? >> IN IS ONE OF THE RAMBLER. IT JUST LOOKS. SO HAHA. I MEAN, TODAY THEY'RE SO COOL. SO ROBBIE COLLIER SAYS HE SOLD ABOUT 60 CARS IN THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF. HE HOPES TO SELL ALL THE OTHERS AND CLEAR THE PROPERTY WITHIN ANOTHER YEAR

Tar Heel Traveler: AMC cars in Pikeville

What sets Wake County's newest bar apart is the retro theme and the staff's passion for retro video games, movies and music.

So a lot of them are my uh husband Dan, who is the Master of Games, uh his personal collection. And then he just started gathering things from, I guess, ebay and different places. I guess we were just trying to find a way to bring Raleigh to Night Dale. So we all lived in Night Dale and we wanted to have a place to come to. That was fun quarterly. We're going to try and review our whole menu, evaluate what's selling. Well, what's not introduce other cocktails that we think may be on the rise trending to do like a crafts and cocktails type of thing which we have on Wednesdays. So right now, which will be just crafters bringing in whatever craft they do, maybe knitting crochet coloring, whatever they want to do and meeting other crafters in the area. We're going to be doing music bingo. So starting on Thursday, try to do that regularly. We plan on introducing trivia, definitely interested in doing cosplay events, anything where it brings the nostalgia to life and we will be hosting an eight prom at some point in November. It's been really, really nice. I'm sure they've seen a lot of love from people all over town coming through here. You know, all the other independent businesses around here are doing really well and I like to see something a little flare come and disrupt everything and have a good time. It's been really nice somewhere I can bring my son and enjoy a beer and a video this place. And I was like, man, it's perfect. Uh losing games I'm in so, yeah, sign me up.

Relax and rewind at Rewind Retro Bar

Heath Perkins playing Super Smash Bros. at Rewind with his son

Almost 100 vendors of vintage clothing and accessories are packed into the Raleigh Convention Center for the North Carolina Vintage Bazaar, the largest vintage fashion convention in the state.

From finance to fashion: how college friends built a clothing company from the ground up

Friends build clothing company from ground up

A look back at coverage from the 1995 story of Stephen Bullis, who was convicted for mailing two pipe bombs to what was then the BTI building near North Hills.

31 year old Steven Bullis leaving the Federal Court building today after pleading not guilty, he was formally arraigned on charges that he named his wife with a mail bomb last summer. This was the scene outside the B. T. I building last july 500 people evacuated after an explosion on the building's fifth floor. Seriously injured in that blast was Tracy Bullis a manager at B. T. I. The bomb had been addressed to her at first speculations ran wild. Was the bombing linked to the one in Oklahoma city? Or was it just another act of the Unabomber? Several days later, police announced the shocking news. Tracy's husband. She reportedly told police that Stephen had been reading books at home on how to make a homemade bomb. Court papers also revealed that Tracy told her husband away Before the bombing, that she increased her life insurance for accidental death to $192,000. Stevens says he's not guilty but reportedly admitted last summer that he got an additional $100,000 policy on his wife and also to having an extramarital affair run away. Okay. Toting them around, I guess Good morning. Mhm. Tracy bullets took the stand today and relive the nightmare of how a bomb blast tore off two fingers and a thumb on her left hand. Last july, she explained to jurors that she and her best friend judy Harrison had been trying to open up a package when the bomb went off, she said, I saw metal and wires at that. I knew it was a bomb. There was a delay long enough for me to turn my head and push it away. Then it exploded. Tracy adds I heard judy screaming and I started screaming because I wanted to know I was still breathing. It felt like a hot wind like I was getting hit everywhere judy Harrison shown here being comforted moments after the bomb blast is Tracy's best friend today, she told George she was at work with Tracy when the bomb went off, she says I saw a red flame and her dress caught on fire and she was trying to put it out. All I could do was scream, I couldn't do anything. Nearly a half hour after the explosion. Tracy was taken to an ambulance and then to wake medical center to be treated during its cross examination. The defense tried to shift the attention on the bombing and onto the possibility that someone had been trying to frame steven. Defense attorney Gail Adams question Tracy about her sister, Liz Bergeron and her husband in an attempt to show that Liz who could no longer have Children. Wanted custody of Caitlin testimony also revealed that Tracy's sister had accused steven of molesting his daughter. Those charges were later dropped. Are you here in support of Stephen? Not hardly are you related to Tracy but testifying in his own defense yesterday, bullets said he was shocked when first notified of the bombing and feared the worst. After learning his wife was injured but safe, he felt relieved he broke down on the witness stand yesterday when he testified about the first time he saw his wife following the bombing. He said in tears, they brought my wife out, she's always more worried about me. She looked at me, she said, I'm okay, I lost my hand but I'm okay. But the prosecution says it is not OK. That steve Bullock is the defendant who wanted to kill his wife because of gaining a significant amount of insurance money after her death, having an extramarital affair and a strained marriage. Stephen bullets showed little reaction after the verdict but defense attorney spoke on his behalf of course we are disappointed about the verdict that the jury has spoken and we just have to live with that and we'll just take it from there. Michael Hall, Stephen Bull is reacting to this verdict. We couldn't see any reaction is pretty devastated by he's always maintained his innocence from the start. Tracy Boulis is also devastate. She lost fingers on her left hand during the blast and her family has been ripped apart lisa Bergeron Tracy's sister. Throughout the trial defense attorneys tried to prove that bullets was framed by his sister in law lisa. The defense claimed that Bergeron wanted steven and Tracy out of the way so she could have custody of the couple's five year old daughter Caitlin. But jurors say the prosecution proved bullets guilty beyond a reasonable doubt information collected from the residents which included some wires and some insulation from bomb one. The fingerprint from bomb to it was last july when Stephen bullets mailed a pipe bomb to his wife. Tracy at the building Assistant U. S. Attorney john Bennett thanked law enforcement authorities today for the way they quickly investigated the case and solve the case and most of all want to thank the men and women of the United States Postal inspection service, who labored for hours and hours and hours and hours to do this to put this together to put it together professionally and well.

Vintage WRAL coverage from Raleigh office building bombing in 1995 

If you have any of the following items in storage or laying around the house, don't 
throw them out as they're worth a pretty penny.

Collectibles that are worth a small fortune 

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Fisher-Price is introducing a new line of toys inspired by 80s and 90s pop culture to create new retro-inspired toys for babies and toddlers.

Fisher-Price announces retro-inspired toys 

In honor of Valentine's Day, we step back in time to a classic Raleigh love story straight from the 1940s. 

MAY HAVE YOU PICKING >>> PLENTY HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST CENTURY. NOT THE POTENTIAL FOR FINDING LOVE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES. THE YEAR WAS 1942. THE PLACE FAYETTEVILLE STREET. ONE CHANCE VISIT WOULD CHANGE LUCILLE RIGSBY AND JOSEPH ALEXANDERS LIVES. YOU CAN RELIVE THEIR LOVE STORE

Romance on Fayetteville Street: A classic 1940s Raleigh love story

From watching baseball at Devereux Meadow in the 1940's to listening to punk music underground beneath Cameron Village, from the circus room at Darryl's on Hillsborough Street to laser tag at Battlezone -- here's a look back at what each generation of Raleighites loved to do for fun.

Remembering Raleigh: Popular pastimes and icons from each decade

Forest Drive-In Theater

Do you remember Raleigh's Peanut Man who fed pigeons on Capitol Square, watching movies at Raleigh's drive-in theaters or hanging out in the old circus room at Darryl's on Hillsbrough Street? Explore memories of popular pastimes from each decade in Raleigh!


Remembering Raleigh: Popular pastimes from each decade that are gone today

Devereux Meadow baseball stadium

In the 1980s WRAL made a music video featuring iconic people and places from the Triangle during that era. How many familiar faces and places do you recognize?

Vintage WRAL: How many familiar faces can you find in this 1980s WRAL music video?

Charlie Gaddy

The iconic Raleigh landmarks, restaurants and people were a huge part of growing up in Raleigh. 

Remembering Raleigh: 9 icons we lost this decade

Remembering Raleigh: 10 cultural icons Raleigh lost forever this decade

Kess Hendrix, a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill, was sick of digging through the half-dozen mildewing boxes in her parents' house in Charlotte.

UNC student discovers deck of cards worth thousands

The cards traveled with Kess' family through moves around North Carolina and the Charlotte area. They stayed packed in boxes, bouncing from storage room to attic to closet.