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The triangle is headed for one of the driest years in its history. 

Authorities say that it may take 3 months or more to clear debris from a rock slide that closed Interstate 40 in both directions

Congratulation’s to our finalist for the 2009 Lamplighter Awards! Recipients will be announced on the December 12, 2009!

Officials announced that despite chilly and wet weekends the 2009 NC State fair had record attendance.  The previous record 856,611 was set in 2007. The attendance for 2009 was 877,941 making it the most attended in fair history.  

Months of probing by state investigators culminates Monday in the first campaign finance hearing in North Carolina history for a former governor.

  According to the NC employment Security Commission, unemployment in the triangle has dipped slightly.

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  It was the University of North Carolina’s first-ever  televised ESPN Thursday night game held  at Kenan Stadium. The Tar Heels watched in disbelief as they watched their 18-point second-half lead slip away.

Gov. Beverly Perdue said late yesterday that she has no plans to release 20 prison inmates next week, despite a recent state Supreme Court ruling that they had served out their life sentences and should be freed.

A new teachers’ incentives program in Wake County is earning high marks. Wilburn Elementary School in Raleigh is the only school in the state to have the Teacher Advancement Program, also known as TAP.