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Apex librarian is remembered

Friends, patrons honor longtime Apex librarian who died suddenly in March.

Bird sanctuary could spread its wings

A nonprofit group focused on rescuing birds of prey may migrate west.

Marrow drive set for Apex student

Wake County residents are teaming up to help an Apex student who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.

Wake hears discipline ideas

A Wake County school board committee charged with improving the performance of low-income students gave a warm response Thursday to an advocacy group's recommendations for easing the district's str...

Wake schools added to Newsweek list

Eight more Wake County schools - including several in western Wake - have been added to Newsweek's 2010 list of the top U.S. public high schools.

Apex school expands to North Raleigh

A growing Triangle private school is set to open its first Raleigh campus by next summer.

Crime Notes

Cary

News Briefs

A Wake County prosecutor has decided to seek no charges in the death of a 29-year-old man shot by his father.

Rudd brings practicality to Cary High classroom

Christina Rudd teaches mathematics at Cary High School and was named the school's teacher of the year for 2010. Rudd has taught at Cary High for 12 years and has served as the school's junior varsi...

For 50 years,
she thought he was dead

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

New Hill vows to fight plant

Ruby Mann has lived in New Hill since she was born 73 years ago. She remembers playing in the creek and breathing in the clean air in the field behind her house on Garris Road.

A twisted feat

A brief tour of the Pehr boys' home might foretell success at an engineering challenge - tens of thousands of Legos fill boxes and shelves in various forms, along with evidence of hobbies such as o...

Corps backs wastewater site

Four western Wake County towns are a step closer to building a $327 million regional wastewater treatment plant in New Hill, an unincorporated community that has fought the plant for years.

Kildaire Farm Road bridge is 'hair-raising'

I am sorry to see that some citizens view the YourLetters section as their opportunity to show their superiority by belittling others ["Interview was a waste of space," July 11].

Crime Notes

Cary

News Briefs

A Cary father is in the Wake County jail this morning after police said he physically abused his six-week-old infant.

Apex joins Cary in U.S. 64 feedback

The town of Apex joined forces with Cary last week - at least partially - in approving a response to state plans for a stretch of U.S. 64 between Cary and Pittsboro.

Cary, Apex respond to U.S. 64 plan

Two Western Wake towns aligned with many of their residents this week, expressing reservations about a state report that details future plans for a stretch of U.S. 64 between Cary and Pittsboro.

Crime Notes

Cary

Your letters

The single quadrant design that engineers are proposing for the intersection of Cary Parkway and High House Road suffers from two major drawbacks.