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The award-winning Smart Start Kids show lets area children tell about activities in their lives that are getting them ready for school.

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The Slammer publishes mug shots, a geyser erupts in downtown Raleigh, and a family fights for custody of a slain Cary mom's kids.

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An advocacy group is questioning whether police acted properly when they left three children in a car with a family acquaintance after arresting their mother along Interstate 85.

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July 26 pet of the day.

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A N.C. leader will help shape the NAACP's national and state policy.

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Doug Scott thinks his "Blow This" car is a "great tool" for people trying to avoid being arrested for driving while intoxicated.

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Bulls get their bats rolling in the 10-5 win over Louisville.

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Brad Cooper and the family of his slain wife reached an agreement Friday regarding temporary custody of their two children.

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The Tar Heel Traveler Scott Mason remembers the party where 51 women signed a resolution not to use any more imported British goods.

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After a tough decision, Bulls pitcher Jeremy Cummings is headed to Beijing to pitch for Team USA.

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A woman has turned her front lawn into memorial for fallen Fort Bragg soldiers.

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A boy waiting for a heart transplant is being kept alive by an experimental device that can be used only in dire circumstances.

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The town's population will quadruple in the next five years, its mayor predicts.

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The Division of Coastal Management announced on Friday it is finalizing a list of high priority sandbag sites.

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Monica Lalibertie reports on the sanitary scores of your selections.

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The mortgage crisis widened and unemployment rose last month in North Carolina and across the country.

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Tommy Aggie Covington, 41, walked out of the Wake County Jail last Friday afternoon about an hour before the Mechanics & Farmers bank, which is located a few blocks from the jail, was robbed, authorities said.

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Unedited video of Brad Cooper and the family of his slain wife, Nancy Cooper, going to court in the custody case involving the Coopers' two young daughters.

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Senior guard Big Curtis Crouch grows up.

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The family of slain Cary mom Nancy Cooper arrived late Thursday at Raleigh-Durham International Airport for Friday's custody hearing. Garry and Donna Rentz were awarded temporary custody after the death of their daughter.

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WRAL's Scott Mason interviews an author of ghost stories.

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The city has no plans to reprint the flier, which is inserted in local water bills, with the correct information.

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4 star recruit Desmond Scott from Durham Hillside has chosen Duke to further his football and educational career.

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The hundreds of pages in the back-and-forth filings of the Cooper custody case provide a glimpse at the life of Nancy Cooper and her family, which is rare for most homicide cases

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A UNC orientation session helps parents cut ties with their children to limit outside interference in student life on campus.

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Mugsy, a 95-pound Boxer, is nearly impossible to walk on a leash. Bark Busters helps Marj Santoro transform her pooch.

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Federal authorities are looking into the travel expenses of the Lumbee Tribal Council, who have spent thousands of dollars in recent months on trips to conferences.

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Melanie Masoud is interning at a cancer research lab.

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Kid to Kid, a children's resale shop in Cary, offers parents an alternative.

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Maria Parham Medical Center was busy this week with three sets of twins born on the same shift Tuesday

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A Durham man has been charged with bigamy after his wife tipped off Chapel Hill police that he was married to someone else.

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Guinness world record holder in cardstacking Brian Berg built a tribute to the Olympic host city.

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WRAL reporter Kim Dean goes to a belly dancing class that's offered at lunchtime.

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Brad Cooper's attorneys assert that the custody motion filed by her parents implies their client was involved in his wife's death. Numerous affidavits from friends and neighbors also testify to tension between the couple.

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A Wake Forest mother says instead of taking her second-grader to school, he was told to leave the bus and was left on the side of the road - alone.

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Nancy Cooper's family and friends gathered for a memorial service Wednesday, July 23, 2008, at Grace Lutheran Church in her hometown of Edmonton, Alberta.

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Ken Medlin caught up with UNC tailback Greg Little to talk about the upcoming season and playing two sports.