Eric Miller

1 week ago | wral.com | Eric Miller

A Harnett County gas station clerk was shot and killed Saturday night, an employee who works there told WRAL News. According to security video shared by an employee and reviewed by WRAL News, the shooting occurred around 11 p.m. at the Marathon gas station at the corner of N.C. Highway 87 and Broadway Road, near Sanford. The video shows a man dressed head-to-toe in black clothing enter the store carrying a pistol.

1 week ago | wral.com | Eric Miller

St. Augustine University’s academic year ended on Saturday, not on campus, but inside Raleigh’s Wake Chapel Church. Speakers at the University’s 94th commencement ceremony wasted no time asking for prayers for the embattled HBCU. “I would ask you to just hang in there with St. Augustin’s. Know that God is with us. And that God is doing a new work and a new thing at St. Augustine’s,” said Rev. Allen Robinson, the keynote speaker and a St. Augustine's alumnus. There’s plenty to pray about.

1 week ago | wral.com | Eric Miller

Clarence Roberts of Fayetteville was exonerated in early 2025, after serving 12 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Through the work of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, he is able to spend time with his family and loved ones, enjoying fresh air and freedom, after more than a decade behind bars. Roberts was convicted in the 2013 murder of Joshua Council in a Lumberton park. He’d been picked up the same night of the murder on a DWI.

2 weeks ago | wral.com | Eric Miller

The state's largest craft beer festival returned to the Triangle Saturday in downtown Raleigh: Brewgaloo. The two day event is always big business for the more than 110 North Carolina breweries that set up shop. But for brewers from the Western part of the state, the hope is this year will be something more. “We’re like ‘hey, come visit, come visit!,’” said Chelsea Carmichael, who works at Asheville’s Highland brewing, and was pouring beer inside Highland’s tent on Fayetteville Street.

2 weeks ago | wral.com | Eric Miller

North Carolina leaders are expected to share an update on efforts for continued recovery after Hurricane Helene on Friday. Nearly seventh months after the storm, people in western North Carolina are still in desperate need of assistance. A meeting of the state emergency response committee in Raleigh. This committee is going to be meeting for the first time since we transferred from that initial rescue phase of operations fully into the recovery and rebuilding mode.