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Wake Tech initiated penalties Tuesday to enforce a three-year-old ban on tobacco use on campus.

Wake Tech Community College initiated penalties Tuesday to enforce a three-year-old ban on tobacco use on campus.

Students found smoking or using tobacco of any kind on campus get a written reprimand for the first offense, probation for the second offense. A third strike means a three-day suspension from classes.

The school beefed up its security force to help with enforcement.<br />

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Two 16-year-old boys are dead and another 16-year-old boy is in the hospital from a shooting in Durham on Tuesday.

Man charged with murder in shooting of three Durham teens

16-year-olds shot, killed in Durham

A Smithfield Middle School teacher has resigned after an investigation, which found the teacher taped students' mouths shut.

'He was humiliated': Johnston County mother questions why teacher taped middle school student's mouth shut

Catherine Webster said she got a text from her son on Feb. 14 from inside Smithfield Middle School. There was painter's tape across the sixth grader's face. Photo courtesy of Catherine Webster.

One of the men was a passenger in Wood's vehicle when she hit a parked car on Dec. 8.

2 men face misdemeanor charges after State Auditor Beth Wood's December crash

NC State Auditor Beth Wood charged with hit-and-run

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt is headed toward Florida

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president's retention of classified records at his Florida estate.

Trump lawyer ordered to turn over Mar-a-Lago case documents

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Wednesday is the first of two votes in the full House required to put the Medicaid Expansion bill on Governor Roy Cooper's desk. The Senate has already approved it.

House session to vote on Medicaid Expansion Bill

The rate raise comes after weeks of economic turbulence, including high inflation, strong jobs growth and a banking crisis.

Federal Reserve raises rates after weeks of economic turbulence

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Four North Carolina players have entered the transfer portal after a season that ended without an NCAA Tournament berth.

Armando Bacot returning to UNC; Puff Johnson entering transfer portal

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Jacy Sheldon made a tiebreaking jumper in the lane with 1.8 seconds left to lift No. 3 Ohio State to a 71-69 win over No. 6 seed North Carolina and help the Buckeyes advance to the Sweet 16 for the second straight season. 

 No. 6 UNC falls in final seconds to No. 3 Ohio St, 71-69, ending season

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Chief BL Martin and Capt. Jamie Hardy were placed on administrative leave on March 10, and rumors have swirled about allegations against them. 

Roanoke Rapids hires outside firm to investigate allegations against police chief, captain

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A 21-year-old man faces charges of possessing a weapon on educational property and carrying a concealed weapon after a weapons detection system alerted when he entered Clayton Middle School Tuesday to pick up his sisters.