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Investigators in Moore County are hoping surveillance video from homes and businesses will help lead them to the person who fired shots into two substations.| WRAL.com
North Carolina has cleared a major hurdle in an effort to get a lottery. The state Senate came back to Raleigh Tuesday and approved a lottery by one vote.| WRAL.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pair of senior Washington, D.C., police commanders acknowledged Tuesday that the ongoing federal law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital is alienating the population and damaging community relationships that will have to be mended in the future.| WRAL.com - AP National News
Miceala Morano scrambled for cover behind a green screen in the University of Arkansas broadcast room after she received a campuswide alert about an active shooter.| WRAL.com - AP National News
NASHVILLE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has become the face of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, is in a Virginia detention center facing deportation to the east African country of Uganda.| WRAL.com - AP National News
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Voting-rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn a redistricting map drawn by Texas Republicans meant to favor the party in the 2026 midterm elections, saying it weakens the electoral influence of Black voters.| WRAL.com - AP National News
SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday night and completed the first-ever deployment of a test payload — eight dummy satellites — into space. After just over an hour coasting through space, Starship splashed down as planned in the Indian Ocean.| WRAL.com - AP National News
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 300 million Americans' Social Security data was put at risk after Department of Government Efficiency officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight, according to a whistleblower disclosure submitted to the special counsel's office Tuesday.| WRAL.com - AP National News
The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if it were up to him, he would jail “every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag,” But the Constitution, the conservative hero noted in 2015, protects flag-burning as a form of free speech. And importantly: “I am not king” who can outlaw the act single-handedly.| WRAL.com - AP National News
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Police arrested seven people Tuesday after they occupied the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith as part of continued protests over the company's ties to the Israel Defense Forces during the ongoing war in Gaza, organizers said.| WRAL.com - AP National News
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials are expressing indignation over a road rage shooting that killed a pregnant teenager and caused her baby to be delivered early.| WRAL.com - AP National News
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled Monday that the Republican-controlled body circumvented safeguards put in place by voters to ensure districts aren’t drawn to favor any party.| WRAL.com
DNC Chair Ken Martin said the push to boost Democrats' funding and organizing in red states isn't just because of the 2026 midterms, but also the post-2030 redistricting that will shift national political power to states throughout the South.| WRAL.com
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Months before New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was set to leave office because of term limits, she has been indicted in what prosecutors allege was a yearslong scheme to conceal a romantic relationship with her bodyguard.| WRAL.com
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds turned out to honor the life of Aland Etienne, the security guard who was killed last month at a Manhattan office tower by a gunman targeting the headquarters of the National Football League.| WRAL.com
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tens of thousands of U.S. college students without legal resident status are losing access to in-state tuition prices as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration.| WRAL.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.| WRAL.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention.| WRAL.com
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Rotten wood and poor inspections appear to have played roles in the collapse of the mast of a historic Maine schooner in an accident that killed one person and injured several others, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a report made public on Thursday.| WRAL.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — A longtime close aide to President Joe Biden on Wednesday denounced Republican investigations into the former president as “baseless” in testimony to lawmakers and defended Biden as capable of carrying out his presidential duties “at all times.”| WRAL.com
State legislators on Tuesday moved forward with a proposal to allow North Carolinians to renew their driver's licenses more often online, and to scrap a requirement that new drivers document their driving practice hours and submit logs to the state.| WRAL.com
When school starts in West Virginia next month, 240,000 students in districts large and small will notice something missing from their cafeteria trays.| WRAL.com
Three days of investigative hearings on the deadly midair collision over Washington in January begin Wednesday and aim to reveal new insights into what caused the crash between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people.| WRAL.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are imploring President Donald Trump's administration to step up its role in addressing suffering and starvation in Gaza, with more than 40 senators signing onto a letter Tuesday urging the resumption of ceasefire talks and sharply criticizing an Israeli-backed American organization that had been created to distribute food aid.| WRAL.com
If you live in Holly Springs, drones could soon be delivering packages at your doorstep.| WRAL.com
HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu is not alone in its effort to sue fossil fuel companies to hold them accountable for climate change harms, but the city's lawsuit is further along than similar litigation across the country. A hearing on Tuesday will indicate how these fights play out in court.| WRAL.com
Flytrex, a drone delivery company, announced it is no longer making deliveries in Holly Springs, NC.| WRAL.com
North Carolina's Insurance Commissioner, Mike Causey, is raising awareness about the rights of drivers to choose their own repair shops after an accident, amidst complaints of insurers potentially steering customers to specific body shops.| WRAL.com
North Carolina State University leaders told college deans, vice provosts and senior vice provosts on Friday that the university would implement an immediate "pause on all hiring activities" in response to uncertainty about the federal budget.| WRAL.com
School librarians, educators, and families gathered at a town hall in Raleigh to advocate for increased funding for school libraries and to oppose proposed legislation aimed at banning certain books.| WRAL.com
Roughly half the people who enroll in one of the state's educator preparation programs end up graduating and teaching in a North Carolina public school -- a troubling sign for a state that has been struggling to hire and retain public school teachers.| WRAL.com
Duke University is known for its collegiate gothic architecture and church spire, but there is also something more down to earth - the Duke campus farm.| WRAL.com
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025 -- The right to vote is foundational -- it safeguards every other political right by ensuring the election of fair and accountable officials. When access to this right is denied, all of our other rights are left vulnerable, reduced to empty promises.| WRAL.com
President Joe Biden on Sunday abruptly abandoned his campaign for a second term under intense pressure from fellow Democrats and threw his support to Vice President Kamala Harris to lead their party in a dramatic last-minute bid to stop former President Donald Trump from returning to the White House.| WRAL.com
If Harris earns the nomination, polling conducted before Biden's decision shows she might have a higher hurdle to clear than Biden did in North Carolina. North Carolina delegates and Gov. Roy Cooper, rumored to be on a short list of possible Harris running mates, endorsed the vice president Sunday.| WRAL.com
Earlier this month, two people close to the Biden-Harris campaign told the New York Times that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper would be a contender to join Harris on the ticket if she were to become the Democratic nominee.| WRAL.com
