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Medicaid expansion was approved last week in the General Assembly after state leaders reached an agreement earlier in March.

Gov. Roy Cooper officially signs Medicaid expansion into law

Parents of students at Ligon Middle School said they did not get an alert from the school after shots rang out nearby on Monday morning.

On WRAL at 5: A man is dead and two officers on leave after a shooting near a middle school. Why parents say they should’ve been alerted sooner.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A woman wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol killed three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday in the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country growing increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.

3 children, 3 adults killed in school shooting in Nashville, Tenn.; shooter also dead

Covenant School shooting in Nashville

Deputies found Bernard Williams on Sunday morning in a ditch on Landfill Road.

Wilson County deputies find 14-year-old boy dead in ditch, homicide investigation underway

First responders begin their investigation after a teenager's body was found Sunday on Landfill Road outside Wilson. Drew C. Wilson   Times

Medicaid expansion was agreed on by Republican lawmakers earlier in March, and the General Assembly passed the legislation last week.

Gov. Cooper officially signs Medicaid expansion into law

Roy Cooper signs Medicad expansion

Fayetteville police used the federal DNA database to identify a suspect in a 28-year-old rape case and made an arrest Monday morning. 

Linked to cold case by DNA, Fayetteville man pleads guilty to rape, kidnapping 

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A man fired five gunshots at Raleigh officers and others on Monday before two police officers returned fire and killed him, according to Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson.