
Ashley Anderson
Executive Digital Producer at WNCN-TV (Raleigh, NC)
Experienced journalist, editor and photographer
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cbs17.com | Ashley Anderson |Starletta Watson
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — The students and staff of Hillside High School were on a lockdown for more than an hour Friday morning into the afternoon. The lockdown and presence of police stemmed from a drug complaint that yielded no evidence or charges, according to the Durham Police Department. CBS 17 learned just before 11:20 a.m. that the school had been placed under a lockdown. Initially no information on what triggered the lockdown was available from the Durham County Public School System.
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1 week ago |
cbs17.com | Ashley Anderson
Posted: May 28, 2025 / 02:13 PM EDT Updated: May 28, 2025 / 02:53 PM EDT Note: The above video stems from initial reporting of the high-speed chase and crash. GARNER, N.C. (WNCN) — Two 18-year-olds have now been charged in a wreck that resulted in serious injuries to a Wake County Sheriff’s deputy earlier this month after speeds up to 111 mph were reached, according to warrants.
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qcnews.com | Ashley Anderson
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Enough fentanyl to kill not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of people was seized from a Raleigh man’s suitcase. According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice, 30-year-old Shakeim Weeks was arrested after returning to North Carolina from making a “resupply trip” to Arizona on June 7, 2024. Law enforcement searched his suitcase, where approximately 100,000 fentanyl pills were found stuffed into Lego box packaging. The pills weighed 11 kilograms.
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cbs17.com | Ashley Anderson
Newly appointed members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, from left, Jeff Carmon, Francis De Luca, Stacy “Four” Eggers, Siobhan O’Duffy Millen and Bob Rucho, take their oaths of office at the Dobbs Building in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 (AP Photo/Gary D.
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cbs17.com | Ashley Anderson
(Source: Halifax County Sheriff’s Office) Posted: May 27, 2025 / 06:13 PM EDT Updated: May 27, 2025 / 06:13 PM EDT ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. (WNCN) — Nearly a year after leading Halifax County Sheriff’s deputies on a chase following a domestic incident, Sakwon Artavas Bowser has been sentenced by a judge on a federal gun charge.
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