Names & Faces

Juliet Keith held onto the wish that she could meet the well-dressed man in the black-and-white postcard photo.

On ordinary weekdays, Derek Michael runs a carpentry business and spends time with his wife Lindsay in Raleigh.

In 2001, Jan Elmo was a corporate executive who carved out a bit of time to heed a request for volunteers to tutor disadvantaged children at Northwoods Elementary School.

Cary High graduate Justin Meeks tore it up with the opening act at the Toby Keith concert at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek last weekend.

A flock of sheep are searching for a home in Cary.

Saturday, Cary's Koka Booth Amphitheatre will be transformed into the Land of Oz.

Lori Felton has worked a fireworks tent in Apex for the past couple weeks.

Western Wake will be exploding with activities to celebrate Independence Day.

In the first full week of July, a Cary girl will be one of 10 inline hockey players to represent her country in the AAU junior Olympics in Huntington, Calif.

The ambulance rolled slowly down St. Vincent Drive, past a cluster of friends and neighbors who hoisted signs and balloons.

The town hasn't yet picked a replacement for Mary Henderson, Cary's longtime parks, recreation and cultural resources director, who retired last week.

Louisa Watson is a petite woman with white curls and an inviting Irish accent. Every morning, she brews a fresh pot of tea for her daughter. She's unassuming, in a familiar kind of way.

Pam and King Prather attended UNC-Asheville's 82nd commencement with a bit more at stake than any other parents in the school's history - they were watching all three of their children graduate, a ...

Michael Wall and Heather Blackley are about to become closer than most first cousins. She's giving him a kidney.

Ethnomusicologist Tim Eriksen is a Grammy-nominated musician whose unique ability to traverse folk, punk and world music has garnered attention for the past two decades.

The rocket fire raining down near their base at Basra seemed worlds away on Saturday as members of the N.C. Army National Guard 1-130th Reconnaissance Battalion sipped beers and shared a few war st...

Rain has begun to fall on Haiti, heavy evening showers that hammer tin roofs and coax pink and purple blooms from the stunted crepe myrtle and bougainvillea clinging to the rocky soil.

After 29 years of coaching, 19 state championships and two national coach-of-the-year awards, Jerry Winterton had just one final coaching award to receive.

Tyler Forsythe, an Apex High School all-conference wrestler who was blinded in a tiger attack at age 3, is going to college.

More than 300 people stuck out like sore thumbs on Saturday as they strolled the streets of downtown Apex for Peakfest, the town's annual spring festival.