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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
