CAMP LEJEUNE - A North Carolina-based Marine from Idaho has been killed in Afghanistan.

Corinne Day's frank, unadorned photos of a teenage Kate Moss in the early 1990s helped inaugurate a new era of gritty realism in fashion photography that came to be called "grunge."

BURLINGTON - Lucy Mae Wade, 94, fell and broke her hip and was at her sister's house in Winston-Salem recovering. That's what her son allegedly told staff at the Burlington Housing Authority.

RALEIGH - C. Steve Parrott, a former telecommunications executive, will be the next president of the Wake Education Partnership, a group that has found itself in the middle of the county's contentious battle over school diversity.

A series of News & Observerstories about the state's secretive personnel law has won a national journalism award.

LITTLETON - Karl Besas texted his brother last week to say he intended to go boating with friends the next day. It was the last message Jonathan Besas would get from his younger brother.

As a UNC system search committee zeroed in on Tom Ross as its top choice to run the state's public universities, one influential member was faced with a conflict.

SMITHFIELD - The Johnston County Council on Aging board kicked out one of its members Thursday following accusations that he slandered a fellow board member and had an inappropriate role in decisions regarding the fate of the agency's embattled director.

PITTSBORO - A Siler City pastor arrested last month on a 16-year-old green-card violation might be able to return to his wife and six children as he awaits a deportation hearing.

Universities, community colleges and state agencies got word Thursday that with a huge budget shortfall looming next year, it's time to cut - again.

GARNER - At 27, Seth Coats had never flown on an airplane, never wandered any farther than Atlanta, and, after a terrible car crash broke both legs in 2008, his biggest thrill came from shooting 9-ball on Tuesday nights.

In October, the Savory Spice Shop will open in the Lafayette Village shopping center in Raleigh.

RALEIGH - State troopers should live in the counties where they work and should inform dispatchers by radio anytime someone of the opposite sex is in their cruiser, an advisory panel recommended Wednesday.

RALEIGH - Wake County's Express Library on Fayetteville Street reopened Wednesday after closing for renovations earlier this summer. The refurbished library now sports a conference room available for nonprofit groups to meet in, as well as new paint and carpeting.

Bread, check. Milk, check. Wine, check. Evacuation route, check.

Bob Bratcher could read the Bible in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, but he spent a good part of his life trying to make sure others could read it in whatever language was easiest for them.

RALEIGH - In a split with other African-American leaders, the head of a local civil rights group is publicly criticizing Wake County's discarded socioeconomic diversity policy and calling for greater cooperation with the new school board majority.

CARY - Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve and Stevens Nature Center reopened Wednesday after successfully combating an outbreak oftiny insects that threatened a group of trees in the 158-acre park.

HILLSBOROUGH - Wearing the same style of thick, dark-rimmed glasses that helped land him in prison 25 years ago, 61-year-old George Fisher pleaded guilty Wednesday to the second of two child murders that shook Orange County in the mid-1980s.

An independent group associated with Raleigh businessman Art Pope has begun early mailings targeting Democratic legislators.