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For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Karin Slaughter talks about her 25th book -- "We are All Guilty Here" - with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. It's a small town murder mystery - that twists and turns until the end.

Water samples have confirmed that a filamentous cyanobacteria, an algae called Trichodesmium caused discolored water in Atlantic Beach.

Joseph McNeil, who later became a two-star general, was one of four freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro who sat down at the local “whites only” counter on Feb. 1, 1960. The young Black men were refused service and declined to give up their seats even as the store manager and police urged them to move on.

Stein, who succeeded fellow Democrat Roy Cooper in January, has made an effort to work with the GOP-controlled General Assembly on things like storm recovery — still a top priority nearly a year since Hurricane Helene's historic flooding — and on other issues broadly popular with North Carolinians.

The Penny Pinchers Health Grocery Store Tours, led by the Pitt Partners for Health Coalition, shows that healthy eating does not have to be expensive.

Police Chief Jared Phelps said the devices, which they began using September 1, replace the department's existing in-car camera systems. The cameras will be distributed across the Patrol, K-9, and Criminal Intelligence Units.

Every year, people go missing on public lands without being recorded in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, and Senator Thom Tillis said that oversight is impeding law enforcement in search and rescue efforts.

RFK Jr. grilled on vaccines during Senate hearing, European coalition announces plan for security guarantees in Ukraine once war ends, D.C.'s attorney general sues to end National Guard deployment.

After 35 years in operation, Neo-China in Durham closed its doors at the end of May. The family-owned Chinese restaurant struggled to keep up with rising operational costs, including the increased prices of imported Chinese goods that resulted from the high tariff earlier this spring.