- Asheville City Council trying to block NC law forcing all progressive council to run in districts instead of “at large”
- Semi-truck full of mail goes up in flames near Jacksonville, NC
- Sex offender sentenced after working secretly as magician at Triad ‘family fun nights’
- Murphy gun shop takes down billboard after death threats
- NC has most breweries per capita in South, ranks 16 overall
- Police making progress investigating more than 20 vehicles vandalized in long-term parking at Piedmont International Airport
- Authorities confiscate, euthanize 39 opossums, 7 raccoons, 5 squirrels from Durham woman’s home
- Machete-wielding teen in Randolph County chases two locals through woods, both sustain injuries
- Grizzly murder-suicide in Albemarle as grandfather kills wife and daughter, grandson survives two gunshot wounds
- Mooresville-based Lowe’s Home Improvement to cut thousands of jobs