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Editor's note: The Herald-Sun is running a four-part series on how dogs help people, from assisting with health issues to aiding police.

Thanks largely to Amendment 1, turnout for this year's primary election in Orange County was much higher than expected.

The son of Raleigh's first African-American mayor sent a letter to Wake County Board of Commissioners chairman Paul Coble criticizing the idea of naming the new county criminal justice center after the late U.S. Sen.

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