The dean of the UNC school of public health said in a blog post Monday that UNC-Chapel Hill should shift to all online classes. Dean Barbara K. Rimer of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health wrote that growing numbers of COVID-19 clusters and students socializing off campus without masks and social distancing mean it’s “time for an off-ramp,” or a return to all-remo...Continue Reading

A North Carolina teenager who strangled his mother after a disagreement over pizza was sentenced Nov. 30 to 12 to 15 years in state prison. Indian American Arnav Uppalapati was 16 at the time he committed the heinous crime in his Cary, North Carolina home. But he is now 19 and will serve his sentence in prison rather than a juvenile detention center. Uppalapati himself called police after he st...Continue Reading

COLUMBUS COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Highway Patrol says a child injured in a traffic crash in Columbus County yesterday has died one day before her birthday. Sgt. Matt Young says Monika Deshmukh, 36, was driving a Ford Focus when she failed to stop at a stop sign at the end of the ramp from US 74 East to US 410 and into into the path of an oncoming tanker truck. The crash happened around 1:30 p...Continue Reading

Apex police are investigating after a woman was robbed and carjacked in a Target parking lot Wednesday morning. Authorities said the woman was parked between the Target and Lowes at the Beaver Creek Shopping Center when a man with a handgun approached her at about 10 a.m. The man demanded the woman’s keys and wallet at gunpoint before leaving with her car, police said. n a statemen...Continue Reading

The search for a missing Gaston County toddler is over and and a man has been charged with murder. After searching for close to 24 hours, police found 3-year-old Jordan Dumont\'s body in the woods, only about 500 yards from where she lived on bess town road in Bessemer City. During a news conference Tuesday morning, authorities said they found human remains. In a news conference that after...Continue Reading

Lately there has been some confusion about the Complete 540 route selection process and there have been several people (including real estate agents and builders selling homes on the Red Route) who claim to know that the NCDOT has already chosen the Orange Route. This could not be farther from the truth! In reality, the final route for the project is chosen by a group of government agencies involv...Continue Reading