Provides the latest RSS feeds for Raleigh News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Raleigh Times.com http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/cat/cb19bea104b69ae5/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:42 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:42 -0400 30 Pat McCrory urged North Carolina senators to keep 12 special Superior Court judgeships that would be eliminated in the $20.6 billion budget they passed Sunday night. The 12 judges hear cases anywhere in the state, filling in as needed for any of the 97 Superior Court judges who may be out sick in any given week. The governor appoints the 12 special Superior Court judges to five-year terms, ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214662133/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:26:32 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214662133/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Wake County Manager David Cooke is asking for a $44 million expense spike on the county budget, most of it for education, public safety and bond ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214662868/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:26:31 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214662868/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 DARA Biosciences (Nasdaq: DARA) execs say the Raleigh company is about to bust out of its slump -- and that all it needs is time. Nasdaq, however, is only giving the pharma six months. The pharma, which recently switched its focus to in-licensing oncology support products, has been issued a warning by Nasdaq that it could be delisted. To avoid that fate, the company has a six months to close its ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214662869/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:26:30 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214662869/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 LaUNCh Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill's first real foray into the accelerator space, is about to complete its first official month. With 17 tenants, startups that moved in this past February, ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214662870/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:26:29 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214662870/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 NAACP is staging weekly protests at the state legislature, something the group is calling "Moral Mondays" during which the activists voice their displeasure with policies on social programs, voting rights, education and tax reform. On Monday night, 57 activists were arrested, bringing the total to 153 over the last four weeks. The number of arrests has grown every ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214661507/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:16:42 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214661507/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Roy Cooper , a Democrat, is opposing a proposal by Republican leaders in the state unit to move the State Bureau of Investigation from the agency he heads, the Department of Jusice, to the Department of Public Safety. Cooper is elected, while the head of the Department of Public Safety is appointed by the sitting ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214660207/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:08:30 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214660207/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 The state budget being put forth by Republican leaders in the state Senate would allocate $2.61 billion in fiscal 2013-2014, which represents a cut of $50 million. The overall $20.6 billion Senate recommendation actually is 2.3 percent more than the previous budget because it includes money to pay for an overhaul of the state's tax system and for anticipated Medicaid ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214660206/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:08:29 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214660206/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 The average price of a gallon of gasoline in North Carolina is $3.41, which is 14 cents less than at this time last year, reports gasbuddy.com That portends lower prices for Memorial Day travel this year than in 2012. The national average now is ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214660208/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:08:29 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214660208/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 A Pennsylvania state trooper remains in critical condition in a hospital in Wilmington, N.C., as a result of being hit by a deer while riding a motorcycle early Friday, police ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214654477/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:39:52 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214654477/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 crowd of hundreds of peaceable citizens (the highest count yet) gathered at the North Carolina Legislature buidling to protest right-wing policies pushed by GOP lawmakers. The Moral Mondays protests, launched by the NC chapter of the NAACP, is now in its fourth week. The number of protesters arrested for May 20th ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214653573/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:34:08 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214653573/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -; Former Arkansas quarterback Brandon Mitchell says he is transferring to North Carolina State to play his final ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214652689/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:56:33 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214652689/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 OKLAHOMA CITY - A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.  The weather service's preliminary classification of Monday afternoon's tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale.There were no ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214649583/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:36:13 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214649583/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 David Cooke wants to spend $982.8 million next year in a budget with no tax increase that funds growth in some county departments. Cooke gave his plan for fiscal 2014, which begins June 30, to the Wake commissioners on Monday. Under it, total spending would rise by $44 million, or about 4.7 percent, with education and public safety each getting $9 million of the increase. Some $17 million of ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214644450/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:57:38 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214644450/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 in 2011 merged with Lexington, Mass.-based Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Nasdaq: GEVA)? Synageva netted a win today - a "breakthrough therapy" designation from the FDA for the combined company's sebipase alfa, which is a treatment for a deadly pediatric disease. Called LAL, it's an inherited disorder that typically kills infants within the first six months of life. The ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214644451/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:57:37 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214644451/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Raleigh, N.C. - The man accused of fatally stabbing an up-and-coming political strategist and injuring her husband at their Raleigh home nearly a month ago was indicted Monday in the case - the same day a search warrant made public shows that he admitted to police his involvement in the crime.Jonathan Wayne Broyhill, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the April 22 attack on Jamie Kirk ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214643229/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:05 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214643229/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Cary-based Ply Gem Holdings, which wants to raise $345 million in an initial public offering, has received its final registration approval from ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214643230/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:53:50 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214643230/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 The business data company LexisNexis is upgrading its Firm Manager software with a new tool to allow lawyers to share documents with each other and their clients via the Internet, managers said Monday. The new version of Firm Manager includes WatchDox, a file-sharing capability that's similar in concept to the popular Dropbox ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214643231/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:53:49 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214643231/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 A Georgia senior housing firm has bought the Manor Village at Preston apartment community in Morrisville for $31 million. The 166-unit community has been renamed as Preston Pointe. It was a unit of Rauls Convalescent Home Inc. of Macon, Ga., that purchased the property from Manor Village Life ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214642638/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:53:48 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214642638/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Ray Gorman says can be attributed to a slowing PC industry. With 90 percent of Lenovo's business in the PC arena, the company is feeling the heat of declining numbers, he says. "To help meet these shifts in our industry, achieve our goals and beat market expectations, we need to continue to invest in these high-growth areas, what we call PC Plus, while reducing our expenses and cost ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214642010/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:50:07 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214642010/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Will Yahoo's Tumblr buy make the Internet giant relevant to the Triangle's young and tech-savvy generation? That's something experts such as University of Warwick Business School ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214642009/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:50:05 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214642009/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 asked its Associate Dean for Career Management Sheryle Dirks about what MBA graduates should expect in the workforce, and how potential students should think about their careers. Here's an edited version. ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214642011/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:50:04 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214642011/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 A draft of the Blount Street-Person Street Corridor Study is available for for review and the City of Raleigh is soliciting public comment. Please plan to drop by the open house, scheduled for May 22 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the AIA Center for Architecture and Design, 14 East Peace Street. The project will be presented by City staff and consultants at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. or drop in ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214640795/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:12:31 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214640795/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 A Wilmington real estate company has put its properties in nearby Hampstead into bankruptcy reorganization, citing liabilities of between $5 million and $10 million. As is somewhat common for new Chapter 11 petitions, the one filed for S and R Grandview LLC on Thursday didnt provide a complete accounting of its assets and liabilities. Its properties are located on and near Grandview Drive and Iris ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214641438/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:58:56 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214641438/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 report published by the Menges Group and sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) found that upgrading management of drug benefits in state Medicaid programs nationwide could save $74.4 billion in a 10-year period without cutting either benefits or enrollees. By avoiding drug store overpayments, increasing the use of generics and promoting pharmacies that offer better ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214640798/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:43 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214640798/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Dave Russell , analyst at research firm Gartner took a few minutes to put the rumored 1,300 NetApp layoffs into perspective. He says he's hearing similar things to what has already ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214639888/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:42 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214639888/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 While the Tar Heel State's overall unemployment rate is improving, North Carolina has the fourth highest African American unemployment rate in the nation. That's according to a recent brief from the Economic Policy Institute. North Carolina's overall unemployment rate ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214640797/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:41 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214640797/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Specialty fitness retailer TrySports, which closed its store at Raleigh's Crabtree Valley Mall last fall, is going to try again in the Triangle with a store planned at Chapel Hill's University Mall. The owner of University Mall has announced that Charlotte-based TrySports will open this fall in an 11,876-square-foot space near the Southern Season anchor store. TrySports offers ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214640796/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:40 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214640796/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 There's something big happening behind those construction barriers set up around two old Liggett and Myers tobacco buildings in Durham's West Village. Construction workers for Lechase Construction have been moving in and out of both the Carmichael Building at 300 Duke St. and the old Liggett and Myers Research Building at 710 W. Main St. in recent weeks, but Duke University's ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214639390/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:29:17 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214639390/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Raleigh, N.C. - Interstate 40 westbound south of downtown Raleigh was closed Monday morning after a wreck near the split with Interstate 440 at mile marker 301. The road was expected to remain closed through the noon hour, according to the state Highway Patrol. Witnesses said the wreck involved a single tractor-trailer carrying bags of concrete. The driver told Highway Patrol that he ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637988/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:28 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637988/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 SHAWNEE, Okla. -; When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637963/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:06 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637963/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Title insurance companies have recovered along with the housing market. Stocks have bounced back to new highs since housing and the financial sector dragged the market into an abyss in 2009, and one of the strongest comebacks has been at Investors Title Co. (Nasdaq: ITIC), a title insurer based in Chapel Hill. The companys shares closed at a record high of $72 on Friday and went higher still, to ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214638289/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:29:29 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214638289/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 North Carolina Biotechnology Center would see its annual state support cut in half to about $8.6 million under the budget proposal drafted by the North Carolina Senate. Meanwhile, the Research Triangle Regional Partnership and the state's six other regional economic development partnerships would lose all of their state operational support. That represents a total cut of about $4.3 million ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637990/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:22:39 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637990/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 I've always been fascinated with dinosuars. From learning about them in second grade with Miss Jenkins, to getting my head stuck in a railing trying to catch a better glimpse of an Ankylosaurs skeleton at a San Francisco museum - these terrible creatures have always captured my fancy. And now, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is hosting an exhibit called "Dinosaurs in ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637989/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:22:38 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637989/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Who doesn't know what the sign pictured with this blog means? It's a pedestrian warning sign, and it means motorists are required by law to stop and allow pedestrians to cross the street. Fat chance. It happens everyday. Pedestrians try to cross a street, a road or a highway at their own peril because motorists rarely stop - as, again, the law requires. This morning, while crossing ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637991/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:22:37 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637991/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 American Airlines (Pink Sheets: AAMRQ) will be rewarding me for this by letting me board the plane right after uniformed military, elite and first class passengers. The airline came out with a ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637192/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:22:37 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214637192/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 I mentioned some of them in last week's print edition . Another "smart grid" entity that's helping to keep the industry plowing forward: The FREEDM Center ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214636427/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:19:22 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214636427/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Anyone who watches the Sunday morning news shows probably has guessed this, but a new study shows that politicians are more polarized now than in more than 100 years. Researchers ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214636426/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:19:20 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214636426/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- Shoppers can prepare for the hurricane season while saving some pennies during the Louisiana Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214635098/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:23:28 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214635098/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 A former member of the Republican leadership of the N.C. House of Representatives faces trial today for allegedly swindling millions of dollars from two government-funded nonprofit ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214634993/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:15:42 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214634993/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Geoff Durham as its new president and CEO. Durham, 42, has more than 12 years experience in economic development strategy. Most recently, Durham acted as economic development director for Fairfax, Va., and prior to his stint there, he worked Silver Spring, Md., where he developed capital improvement projects for the urban district and managed property development and budgetary needs. The hire ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214634994/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:15:41 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214634994/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 ICF International, an information technology consulting firm for both corporate and government clients, will be consolidating its operations in the Triangle when it combines the company's offices in Cary and in Research Triangle Park into the Meridian Corporate Center in Durham. ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has signed a lease for 11,604 square feet space at 2635 Meridian Parkway in ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214634995/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:15:40 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214634995/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 study has Durham outpacing the nation by 25 percent and the State of North Carolina by 93 percent. The takeaway? That Durham's "creative economy" supports 7,335 jobs -- a figure that has grown 22 percent between 2006 and 2011. The index measures the health of the creative economy in communities after taking into consideration the number of people working in arts-related ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214634506/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:15:39 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214634506/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Granting immigration reform to North Carolina's 325,000 undocumented workers would boost the state's gross state product by $34 billion and create 5,000 new jobs over the next 10 years, according to a progressive Washington-based think tank. ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214633793/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:13:01 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214633793/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 A new farmer's market, featuring fresh local products, is planned to begin operating in southeast Raleigh this summer. The market is being developed in response to a need generated by the recent closing of two supermarkets in southeast Raleigh. Financial support to help offset the project's start-up costs was approved by the Raleigh City Council on May 7. The $15,000 donation will come ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214632655/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:38:49 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214632655/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Charlotte Bobcats camp isn't something that will make a difference in the win-loss column, but it has the Queen City buzzing nonetheless. According to a report from CBSSports.com, the Bobcats are in the process of changing their name back to "Hornets," which would, critically, mean the return of Hugo the Hornet and the beehive-themed free throw lane to Charlotte. Such a change ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214632532/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:13:48 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214632532/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Good grief. I grew up in rural Cleveland County, and we had chickens all over the place. Laying hen, breeding roosters and fryers. Nowadays, that's a novelty. That's fine. Sort of part of the back to Earth movement. Thousands turned out this weekend to check the chicken coops in the backyards of urban Raleigh and ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214631548/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:16:32 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214631548/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Proponents of pre-kindergarten educational programs in North Carolina credit it with preparing kids to learn when they arrive at school. But a showdown looms over the program, with the state House considering a proposal to limit ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214630227/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:19:48 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214630227/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 The sixth annual Got to be N.C. festival brought 'em in at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh to celebrate all things made, not just in the U.S., but particularly in North ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214630226/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:19:47 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214630226/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 SHAWNEE, Okla. - Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called home. Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, ... http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214628968/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5 Mon, 20 May 2013 05:51:23 -0400 http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/sid/214628968/scat/cb19bea104b69ae5