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  • Jurors go home without verdict in McNeill trial

    FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Jurors in the trial of a man accused in the rape and murder of a 5-year-old Fayetteville girl have completed their first day of deliberations without reaching a ...

  • One Drone Victim’s Trail From Raleigh to Pakistan

    WASHINGTON -- When Jude Kenan Mohammad was about 18 and living in Raleigh, N.C., according to people who knew him, he came under the influence of an older ...

  • Lower temps humidity signal pleasant weekend

    Raleigh, N.C. - Two things are going to drop dramatically over the next few days, WRAL Chief Meteorologist Greg Fishel said Wednesday: the temperature and the dew point, meaning a lovely spring weekend is on its way to central North Carolina.A cold front rolling through the area Friday will bring lower humidity and temperatures in the low to mid 70s after a several-day string of muggy, stormy ...

  • Eastbrook Road drama plays out in trial over slain toddler

    The first-degree murder trial of Ellis Royster, accused of the 2010 shooting death of a 2-year-old boy, turned into a neighborhood drama on Wednesday. As Royster and his attorney listened, Alvin Alexander, who like the defendant had grown up on Eastbrook Road in northeast Charlotte, told the jury how a soured $10 drug deal had later escalated into a barrage of gunshots. One struck and killed ...

  • Defense witnesses offer contrasting image of Abaroa marriage

    Durham, N.C. - Jurors hearing testimony in the first-degree murder trial of Raven Abaroa, accused of killing his wife eight years ago, heard Wednesday about a starkly different relationship than the troubled one prosecutors have portrayed for the past three ...


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Extraordinary Measures

Extraordinary Measures

Most people have never heard of Glycogen storage disease type II, also known as Pompe disease, because it is an extremely rare genetic disorder (less than 10,000 people in the world suffer from it). However, most people have heard of Harrison Ford, who plays a fictio ... ...

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  • North Carolinas Raleigh Adding City Jobs Giving Workers Raises

    As Raleigh continues to recover from the recession, City Manager Russell Allen's proposed budget keeps property taxes steady while increasing utility bills, adding 40 new positions and giving employees a 3 percent raise. The budget for fiscal year 2013-14 totals $705.23 million in spending. Up from $679 million this past year, it's the highest in city history and a reflection of ...

  • JPMorgan celebrates banking team growth

    JPMorgan Chase President, Mid-Atlantic market, Wayne Trotman and North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, speak at the Foundation For The Carolinas, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. JPMorgan Chase is celebrate its move into the Hearst Tower -- right in Bank of America's backyard. Davie Hinshaw - ...

  • Public financing for judicial candidates faces opposition from Senate leaders McCrory

    RALEIGH Advocates of North Carolina’s public financing program for judicial candidates ramped up their efforts to keep it Wednesday in the face of opposition from Senate Republican leaders and Gov. Pat McCrory. Among other things, they distributed a letter signed by three former governors and more than 200 business leaders – many from Charlotte – in support of the nearly ...

  • 2014 NASCAR Hall of Fame class spans decades

    Tim Flock, Maurice Petty, Dale Jarrett, Jack Ingram and Fireball Roberts were elected as the five-man 2014 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Wednesday. NASCAR chairman Brian France announce the five inductees in a ceremony at the NASCAR hall of fame. They were selected by a panel 55 voters, plus one ballot from a fan vote, from a list of 25 nominees. Flock, a two-time champion in what is now ...

  • NC college could lose aid for not reporting crimes

    ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) -- Elizabeth City State University could face the loss of federal financial aid as well as nearly $4.4 million in fines for not reporting more than 120 crimes as required by ...

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