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These critters need care

This has been a hectic year for people who rehab baby squirrels, and Raleigh nonprofit Wildlife Welfare is looking to people of the Triangle for help.

Final N.C. 98 leg nearly ready to open

The state Department of Transportation could open this week the final leg of the N.C. 98 bypass, which loops around Wake Forest and will help cars avoid crowded Capital Boulevard.

Raleigh ready for bug invasion

If a chance to eat at the Cafe Insecta doesn't catch your attention, perhaps the return of Jim Alberti's Flea Circus or a collection of aquatic bugs will.

Raleigh asked to 'Exchange' ideas

There are probably few events that can truly bring a city together, but the seventh annual Raleigh Neighborhood Exchange aims to do just that.

Your best shot: Helping himself

Ridgewood makeover nears

A developer's vision for an expanded and spruced up Ridgewood Shopping Center is one major hurdle away from becoming reality.

Search for new Piedmont Laureate begins

The Raleigh Arts Commission and its partners are looking for a writer of creative non-fiction to be the third Piedmont Laureate.

Police: Couple tried to steal $300 in groceries

Police have arrested one suspect and are looking for another who allegedly assaulted a store employee Aug. 22 while trying to walk off with a cart full of groceries from a North Raleigh Lowes Foods.

Man robbed at apartment complex

Two robbers jumped a 33-year-old man on his way home from a North Raleigh bar early Aug. 22.

Farmers market reopens

A small but rapidly-growing, student-led farmers market returns today to N.C. State's campus.

School Notes

Wakefield High's senior night set.

Name that place winner

Last week's photo was an image of the intersection of I-540 and Falls of Neuse Road. The winner, whose entry was drawn at random from among the correct answers we received, is Patti Saleeby. She wi...

Faith Notes

Catholic Golden Age meets Sunday.

Crime Notes

The following incidents were reported to Raleigh police between Aug. 21 and 23:

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5K to honor firefighter's 9/11 run

On Sept. 11, David Collins will run 3.1 miles through the streets of Wake Forest wearing full firefighter gear.

Better times ahead

Wednesday mornings at work are rarely so relaxing.

N. Raleigh teen wins coveted scholarship

It takes a trained eye to see excitement in a beaded cube and beauty in a geometry proof.

Bigwigs want a park at Dix hospital site

A group of North Carolina business, education and political leaders wants Gov. Bev Perdue to endorse turning the Dorothea Dix Hospital property into a public park once it's emptied of patients and ...

Your best shot: Showers on flowers

Missing: One neighborhood fox

At a time when Raleigh neighborhoods are trying to get rid of kid-biting, rabies-carrying foxes, others are struggling to keep the heavy, cement statue kind.

Two charged in grocery return scam

Authorities have accused two people of trying to use a bogus receipt to return groceries and then assaulting two store employees who discovered the scheme Aug. 17 at an Aldi supermarket in North Ra...

More time for rail input

Anyone with comments or suggestions on a plan to run high-speed trains from downtown Raleigh to Richmond, Va., now has more time to be heard.

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School Notes

Trinity Academy dedicates activities center.

Prep teams vie for grants

Brian Hoyle saw three high school football players walk toward him. Hoyle, who had an idea to share, knew he had one chance with the three adolescents.

First for Heritage

About 850 ninth- and 10th-graders poured into Heritage High's cafeteria Wednesday morning for the school's first-ever first day.

Beer, sewers & back to school

Sunday Memo: 

BEER ME: To wash down Raleigh's Restaurant Week, the inaugural Raleigh Beer Week kicks off Monday and runs through Sept. 3. The celebration of local and imported rare beers includes at least two ev...

Crime Notes

The following incidents were reported to Raleigh Police between Aug. 17 and 20: