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A New Year's surprise slithered into an oven in a Wake Forest home while a family was baking a pizza.

Police in North Carolina say they are investigating a shooting that left three men with gunshot wounds.

A North Carolina man is dead after armed robbery suspects fleeing police crashed into his Jeep.

U.S. Army criminal investigators have arrested a deployed soldier accused of raping an Alabama college student last year.

It happened last night around 9:45 at the Columbus Correctional Institution.

Mosquitoes have swarmed a North Carolina county in the days since Hurricane Dorian brought heavy rainfall to the area.

Orange County authorities say the evasive emu died during an attempt to capture the animal and relocate it to a sanctuary.

U.S. Geological Survey scientists are installing at least 150 storm-tide sensors and at least 22 other instruments that will track the hurricane's effects along the coasts of North and South Carolina.

Police in Raleigh say they're investigating the actions of officers who handcuffed a black man in his boxer shorts after his burglar alarm was accidentally tripped.

Wilmington police said the gator was spotted near McRae Street and Cornelius Harnett Drive just under the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway overpass.

North Carolina's top environmental agency is accepting public comments about the regulation of a chemical pesticide used in log fumigation through the end of August.

Saturday night's Powerball drawing produced two winning tickets in North Carolina.

A 7-year-old boy vacationing in the Outer Banks has been flown to a Virginia hospital after being struck by a sheriff's department vehicle.

Police in a coastal North Carolina city are looking for a woman who they say vandalized two Confederate statues.

Rescue crews from the Coast Guard partnered with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to aid an ailing man aboard a sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay early Saturday morning.

Utility crews are working to restore power to two popular North Carolina Outer Banks destinations.

Wake County officials think one in five private wells in the area could have unhealthy levels of naturally-occurring radon and uranium.

Newly elected black sheriffs in North Carolina not honoring federal requests to hold inmates who may be in the country unlawfully say they're being unfairly targeted by Republican lawmakers with a bill that would force compliance.

The Village of Bald Head has confirmed that an 8-year old boy was bitten by a shark on Sunday afternoon.

Austin Reed was bitten by a shark while surfing off Ocean Isle Beach Monday afternoon.

Police in Wilmington say officers fatally shot a man who had multiple firearms outside his home.

The toll of people injured in a downtown Durham gas explosion that leveled a building has risen to 25, including nine firefighters.

News outlets report the Arlington County Board's 5-0 vote came after hours of heated public testimony Saturday. Supporters said Amazon's plan to build a massive facility in Crystal City will lead to tens of thousands of good jobs. Opponents, however, said the tech giant doesn't deserve public subsidies. They also said lower-income residents would be driven out.

North Carolina's environmental agency on Wednesday said Chemours now agrees that within six months it will figure out how much of the chemicals discharged for years from its plant near Fayetteville it can economically and technologically reduce.

Authorities say a police call that began with a complaint about a possible poisoning ended with a sheriff's deputy fatally shooting a man in South Carolina.

The head of the country's oldest public university is saying goodbye to the North Carolina's campus she's leaving after a tiff over a Confederate monument.

The interim president of North Carolina's public universities says he doesn't want to see a Confederate memorial ripped down by protesters last summer return to its prominent spot on the flagship Chapel Hill campus.

The N.C. Department of Labor said the accident occurred Tuesday at a site where affordable housing was being built on the north side of Raleigh near Triangle Town Center shopping mall.

Sheriff Burnis Wilkins announced this morning that he fired Investigator Darryl McPhatter, while Major Anthony Thompson has resigned.

A state trooper is on administrative leave after opening fire on a car and shooting a suspect.