News Headlines for the NC Triangle Area

Student hit on bicycle early Sunday by another student accused of driving drunk

Cold air moving into the area from the north and moisture associated with an upper level disturbance will combine Sunday to produce the best chance for any frozen precipitation the Triangle has seen all winter. Many counties in central North Carolina will be under a winter weather advisory late Sunday through the morning commute hours Monday.

The leading candidates for North Carolina governor are learning how to feel the love from their respective parties now that they can no longer be sweet -- or sour -- upon Gov. Beverly Perdue.

The Raleigh Police Selective Enforcement Unit peacefully persuaded a woman who had threatened to hurt herself to leave a hotel room Sunday morning, an outcome that differed greatly from a Feb. 6 incident in which a Raleigh officer was shot and the man he was trying to reach killed himself.

We could see the flurries in the Triangle beginning this evening. Winter Weather Advisory issued

New home construction is on the upswing in Wake County, a welcome sign that the economy is growing and improving, according to a recently released report from the Home Builders Association's Raleigh chapter.

By April 1, the Popperwill family - parents Jennifer and Todd and their four daughters under age 7 - must give up their FEMA trailer and move into an even smaller camper they bought as a backup should they run out of options after Hurricane Irene destroyed their home. Interactive map: A town by town look in Pamlico County

Tracey Cline is a fighter who never minces words or cloaks her passion in the courtroom. Her zeal to seek justice for the victims of crime helped her land the job as the top prosecutor in Durham County. But the seeds of her success may prove to be the cause of her downfall. Read more on Tracey Cline in the Twisted Truth series

County-by-county look at government services open or closed on Monday.

Meredith Clayton is 29 years old, but she still sometimes goes to work with her mom.

The city would spend $2.5 million for artificial turf and lighting at two soccer parks under a proposal backed by the Capital Area Soccer League and Wake County's tourism arm.

During the 1950s, being a racial moderate in the South could sometimes be uncomfortable. For Bill Snider it meant having a cross burned on his lawn and the windows of his Greensboro house smashed while his children slept inside.

Today, Feb. 19, should be a day of celebration for the Seneri family of North Raleigh.

It's unlikely auto-racing fans will see Green Berets driving muscled Hummers on NASCAR tracks or that soldiers will get racing Fords in Afghanistan, but the North Carolina motorsports industry and the Army's Special Operations Command have signed an agreement to find out what each can teach the other, officials announced Saturday.

A North Carolina bus dispatcher is facing involuntary manslaughter charges in Virginia for his role in a bus crash that killed four passengers in May.

Raleigh's Clay Aiken is competing on the new season of "The Celebrity Apprentice," which debuts at 9 tonight on NBC. Read more TV news on the 'Happiness is a Warm TV' blog

The best person to see an old soldier through his last days is another veteran. At least, that's the philosophy behind Hospice of Wake County's new branch of a national effort to match volunteers who have been in military service with patients who are also veterans.

In his State of the City address Feb. 6, one of Mayor Bill Bell's priorities for 2012 was "to help create jobs for our residents and train them to fill those jobs."

Russell Allan Clark, 24, of 35 N. College St. in Wake Forest, was being held on $100,000 bail at the Wake County Jail on Saturday after being arrested on eight drug charges at his home Friday.

Bobby Shriner has led Orange High School's wrestling team for 23 years, building one of the state's strongest programs and sending wrestlers on to top colleges and their own coaching careers. "There's no telling where ... a lot of kids would be, if it weren't for (Shriner)."