A 51-year-old Raleigh man was arrested Wednesday on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

A federal safety agency says the explosion that killed three people at a ConAgra Inc. Slim Jim factory in North Carolina may have been caused by natural gas likely vented into the building by a contractor.

The stepdaughter of a local minister was arrested Wednesday in his June 4 slaying, and more arrests are expected, according to the Wake County Sheriff's Office.

Friends and family of Robert Jay Leffer call him a "walking miracle."

The game of guessing who wants to replace Rosa Gill on the school board is well underway.

Protests over Iran's presidential election stretched all the way to the Triangle on Tuesday.

The City Council delayed voting on next year's budget Monday after several council members said they wanted more time to review two competing proposals, one of which would eliminate raises for city employees.

WakeMed wants to build a $60.7 million outpatient medical center next to its flagship Raleigh hospital, partly to relieve congestion at its main campus.

Two workers injured in last week's ConAgra Foods plant explosion are suing the contracting firm they think was responsible for the natural gas leak that sparked it.

In a 4-3 vote marked by bickering and frayed feelings, the Wake commissioners approved a budget Monday that avoided closing two branch libraries but upheld recommended cuts in money for schools and social programs.

The Wake school board is scheduled to introduce a new policy on professional learning communities that will coincide with the weekly early dismissals that will start in July.

As his counterparts in neighboring Wake municipalities are having to make wrenching decisions about staff layoffs and service cuts, Holly Springs Town Manager Carl G. Dean knows he has it pretty good.

Wake Correctional Center opened its doors this weekend to inmates' spouses, children and friends in an event that organizers hope will help the men improve the bond with their families and inspire them to stay out of trouble in the future.

A rose bush, some pansies, a pair of pencil hollies, some Boston ferns -- those and more stolen by the shadowy Oakwood plant thief, an outlaw with a garden trowel.

A 29-year-old man was killed Saturday afternoon after his BMW ran off the road, struck a sign and several trees, and flipped upside down on Interstate 540 in North Raleigh.

Days after a blast killed three workers and wounded dozens more, the Conagra plant in Garner teeters. Caught in the uncertainty are 900 employees who anchored their lives here.

The explosion that ripped through the ConAgra plant earlier this week was the result of an accidental natural gas leak and not a deliberate act, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced this afternoon.

Former Raleigh Mayor Tom Fetzer was elected chairman of the N.C. Republican Party late today, after a tough partisan fight marked by personal accusations and a lawsuit.

Investigators were still trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed a downtown Raleigh warehouse early Friday morning.

The driver of a BMW that overturned on eastbound Interstate 540 in North Raleigh this afternoon was pronounced dead at WakeMed.

Thousands of people, including Gov. Beverly Perdue, donned sneakers this morning to raise money to fight breast cancer in the The Komen NC Triangle Race for the Cure.

A car carrying two N.C. State students struck a fire truck on Interstate 40 early this morning, according to firefighters on the scene.