Ice from the weekend’s snow storm that is still lingering in the area is proving to be dangerous for many residents. Doctors at Rex Hospital in Raleigh say they have seen about 30 to 40 percent more patients in the last two days than normal. A majority of that increase is because people are slipping […]
RALEIGH — The multi-state Mega Millions lottery game is sporting a giant jackpot for New Year’s Eve, after yesterday evening’s $200 million drawing went without a top winner. Friday evening’s jackpot is now pegged at $237 million, after 14 straight bi-weekly drawings without a top winner. But 17 players in a dozen states won at […]
SELMA, NC (WTVD) — Fire ripped through a building at a Johnston County dog breeding facility Wednesday morning killing dozens of animals. Pictures from Chopper 11 HD showed firefighters putting out hotspots in a building that was leveled by flames at Puppy Paradise on West Blanche Street Extension in Selma. Officials said firefighters managed to […]
KNIGHTDALE (WTVD) — Police charged a 23-year-old Garner woman with felony larceny and safecracking after she allegedly took a safe filled with money and jewelry. Arrest warrants accuse Amber Nichole Narron, of 1104 JR Drive, of taking the safe from a woman living in the 3600 block of Kemp Drive in Knightdale. The contents of […]
HILLSBOROUGH (WTVD) — A fatal accident shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 in Orange County early Friday. The Highway Patrol said the crash happened around just before 4 a.m. when a driver lost control of a 1995 Toyota SUV during what appeared to be an attempt to avoid another vehicle or something in […]
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — President Barack Obama slipped unannounced into dangerous Afghanistan on Friday, one year after widening an ever deadlier war and just days before a pivotal review about the 9-year-plus conflict. Plans for a face-to-face meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai were scrapped at the last minute. Under intense security, Obama landed […]
CHAPEL HILL (WTVD) — The North Carolina Highway Patrol says a prisoner managed to steal a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Public Safety Department squad car Tuesday afternoon. The man took the Chevy Impala around 1:10 p.m. and sped off west on Interstate 40. Officers said they chased the vehicle from Orange County […]
CHARLOTTE — Police in Charlotte are investigating threatening letters sent to two school board members after the board voted to close 10 schools. WCNC-TV reported that board member Kaye McGarry received a threatening letter last Friday. Board chairman Eric Davis got one on Saturday. WBTV reported a third threat directed at the entire board a few […]
HICKORY — The father of a disabled girl who North Carolina police say was killed said he had nothing to do with her death and did not dismember the child. There’s no way I would do that to my baby,” Adam Baker told WBTV in a Tuesday interview. “There’s no way in the world I would hurt […]
