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  • Mark Rutledge: Worthless family heirlooms hard to toss

    The area above our kitchen cabinets is starting to resemble one of those overly decorated chain restaurants, where they nail to the walls everything from rusty old bicycles to 19th-Century portraits of old men.

  • Raleigh police planning checkpoint for Taft investigation

    Raleigh police planned to turn to the public Friday night as investigators continue to look for a suspect in the death of a Greenville woman.

  • Warmer weather calls out the ticks

    Warm weather calls many hikers to the woods, and officials want explorers to be wary of the ticks that can transmit disease.

    The N.C. Division of Public Health confirmed this week that two Wake County residents were diagnosed with Lyme disease, a tick-borne infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, and have listed the county as endemic for the disease.

  • Wedding is just what the doctor ordered

    On what would have been Jamandé and Geniene Jones’ wedding day, family and friends will gather today in the couple’s home to watch a video of their exotic wedding ceremony held last month in an African village.