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The Wake County Board of Education voted June 18 to appoint Dr. Jim Merrill as superintendent of the Wake County Public School System, effective Aug. 1. Merrill, a former Wake County Associate Superintendent of Finance and Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources began his career in 1973 as an English teacher, spending a total of 16 years in ... (more)

Lisa Tonner was living in Fairfield County, Conn., and knew nothing about Paganism when, in the late 1980s, she accepted an invitation to go to the city.

The decomposed body of a female was found in Salinas near where the abandoned car of a 35-year-old woman missing since Thanksgiving Day had been parked, a Salinas police spokesman said Wednesday.

Missouri's education agency says parents wanting to transfer their children from failing schools should provide notice by Aug. 1. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released guidance Wednesday on how to handle student transfers.

While Americans willingly cut their spending on upscale restaurants during the Great Recession, their pets continued to dine on gourmet meals.

Federal agents in New Jersey have arrested four men in connection with the armed robbery of a Target store in Union on Black Friday.

A THANKSGIVING service will be held on Friday in memory of the social worker who drowned on the Greek holiday island of Corfu.

The splash pad at Pratt Park will be open for business in time for the city's Independence Day festivities.

Last Wednesday morning, Ben Kitoko had no idea what 'biodiversity' meant. He didn't have any special interest in science, and liked the environment but didn't know exactly why.

A $5,000 reward is being offered for anyone who offers information that leads to an arrest or conviction of suspects involved in a series of break-ins and vandalism at Olander Park over the last two months, that included an arson incident there Monday.

Prudence Hockley in a school photo. She was beaten Dec. 24, 2011 and died Christmas Day at Harborview Medical Center.

A Pinellas County jury listened Tuesday to the vivid and horrifying story of how Stacia Berman's body was found - wrapped in a blanket, plastic bags covering her head, floating in St. Petersburg's Lake Maggiore with two alligators swimming nearby.

Father's Day, a holiday which falls on the third Sunday of June, is less popular than other holidays in China as fewer fathers receive gifts than mothers.

DeRosa was convicted in the stabbing deaths of 73-year-old Curtis Plummer and 70-year-old Gloria Plummer almost 13 years ago.

Benjamin Hill Park Committee members Andy Deveau, right, and Butch Farrar spent several weeks air-chiseling the bottom of the pool, chipping off 30 years' accumulation of rubber paint so that cracks in the Gunite surface could be caulked and repainted.

Please do not try to sell my Father a clock. It's not that he won't buy it, it's just... he has enough clocks Monday, June 10, 2013 This didn't start as something for Memorial Day, but, well, it ended up that way.

Actress and mother-of-two Sarah Michelle Gellar is joining March of Dimes and the Sounds of Pertussis campaign to help raise awareness about pertussis, also known as whooping cough, and the importance of vaccinating the entire family.

In many parts of the world there is no better time to work on your mojo than on the longest day of the year.

Burt and Virginia fight over all the time he's spending at a gay bar in Monday's 'Raising Hope' episode, titled 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do.'

A playground memorial is being planned to remember four young children killed in a house fire in eastern Pennsylvania on Mother's Day.