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The Rural Center claims it created 35 jobs with a grant for a new Bojangles' in La Grange. The store, however, was already opening.

Spending in the Shadows

Read the series about the NC Rural Center, which claims jobs that don't exist and helps build...

Kameran Giggis reacts as she sees a professor after receiving her degree.

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Eastern Carolina Organics (ECO) receiving employee Andrew Pinney opens to taste check a sample from a pallet of fresh-picked organic strawberries from Vollmer Farm in Bunn, NC Wednesday afternoon, June 19, 2013 at the ECO warehouse in east Durham, NC. Deliveryman Jay Foret, right background, secures his truck before signing off on the shipment. ECO is a grower based produce distributor that moved recently from Pittsboro to a warehouse on E. Pettigrew St. in east Durham, NC.

Ag officials tour locally grown food hub in Durham

Two U.S. Department of Agriculture visited Durham Wednesday to see an example of an emerging business model for distributing regionally-grown, mostly...

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Hit-and-run driver had right of way, but fled after fatal Raleigh crash

A man accused of running down two women near N.C. State University early Saturday and then driving off had the right of way, but he was speeding and may have been driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to an accident report made...

Nation/World

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 1997 file photo, FBI agents and New York state police guard the reconstruction of TWA Flight 800 in Calverton, N.Y. Flight 800 exploded and crashed July 17, 1996 while flying from New York to Paris, killing all 230 people aboard. Former investigators on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 called on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the cause, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.

Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe

Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory...

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Saunders: Slim Whitman, a late-night joke who laughed all the way to the bank

Most people who were alive in the 1980s won’t ever forget Slim Whitman, whose commercials were omnipresent. Whitman died Wednesday.

Health & Science

5 points to know about the health care overhaul

Still a little hazy about the health care overhaul? You have plenty of company.

Weather News

National Weather Service confirms tornado touched down in Franklin County

A National Weather Service preliminary report confirms that a tornado cut a 1.25 mile damage path in Franklin County on Tuesday evening. No injuries were reported.

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NC speed limit debate slowed until Thursday

The full House has hit the brakes at least for another day on a vote for legislation that could raise the speed limit on some North Carolina interstates and highways from 70 mph to 75.