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For years, the carousel at Chavis Park has been the city’s other historic carousel, the one relatively few people have seen. While people stood in line to ride the painted wooden animals at Pullen Park, even before the new carousel house opened there in 2011, less than two miles away, the Chavis carousel was never […]

Triangle area post offices will close at normal times Monday night, the deadline for mailing 2012 federal tax returns. Numerous 24-hour self-service kiosks will be available for purchasing postage with the required date, and several contract postal centers will have extended hours. However, customers using a self-service kiosk should be aware that an April 15 […]

Several businesses in the Triangle are offering freebies or free items with purchase between now and Monday, April 15th to help you get through the angst of tax day! FYI. Not all of the stores in the chain may be participating. Call ahead to verify if your local store is offering these deals. Among this […]

Peyton and Eli Manning tossed a few at the Blue Devils’ indoor field. The two NFL star quarterbacks reunited this week to live and train with their former college coach, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe. courtesy WTVD

There’s a report that North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, N.C, is on lockdown. According to “Campus Alert”, the university’s website, a man was spotted on campus with a weapon. The University Police Department received a report “of an unknown black male with a weapon in the area of the General Classroom Building.” The individual is […]

MaxPreps is pleased to announce that the Millbrook Wildcats have officially been named to the 7th Annual MaxPreps Basketball Tour of Champions Presented by the Army National Guard. This exclusive honor is reserved for only 20 of the best teams in the entire country. Given the fact that over 40,000 varsity teams compete, that puts […]

The Raleigh-Cary area came has tied for second in a Gallup poll asking residents if they “felt comfortable walking alone in their community at night.” The poll was conducted among the 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the nation. The Denver-Aurora, Colo., area tied Raleigh-Cary with 78 percent of respondents replying “yes” to the question. […]

Step aside, New Orleans and Charleston. The tastiest town in the South isn’t one of those culinary capitals but is instead right here in the Triangle – Durham. Southern Living magazine announced on Tuesday that Durham is the “Tastiest Town in the South.” The region’s new culinary capital is featured in the May issue of […]

State lawmakers want to keep the super in supersized when it comes to soft drinks. Three lawmakers filed a bill Tuesday that would prohibit cities and counties from limiting how large a big soft drink can be. The bill takes a swipe at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort to limit giant sugar drinks for […]

Domestic violence murders increased in North Carolina in 2012, increasing 15 percent to 122, North Carolina’s attorney general said Tuesday. Attorney General Roy Cooper said 106 murders were attributed to domestic violence in 2011.  Of the victims in 2012, 78 were women and 44 were men. Of the killers, 104 were men and 18 were […]

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Emergency crews say they found the bodies of two children at a construction site Monday morning. The children were trapped Sunday evening when dirt collapsed on them, according to WBTV in Charlotte. A father of one of the children called 911 at about 6 p.m. to report what happened, said Lincoln County Emergency Services public […]