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Nov 14, 2024 | 
wral.com | Aaron Thomas |John Rector |Joseph Ochoa
Two cars crash, one into the deck of Raleigh sports barTwo cars Thursday afternoon drove off the road and into a restaurant in Raleigh. The WRAL Breaking News Tracker captured video of two cars that had crashed into Rudino's Sports Corner on Edwards Mill Road. Witney Jones, a waitress at the bar, said she was sitting in the break room at the bar when the crash happened. "I heard a large boom and the lights went out," she said.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
wral.com | Aaron Thomas |John Rector |Joseph Ochoa
Two cars crash, one into the deck of Raleigh sports barTwo cars Thursday afternoon drove off the road and into a restaurant in Raleigh. The WRAL Breaking News Tracker captured video of two cars that had crashed into Rudino's Sports Corner on Edward's Mill Road. Witney Jones, a waitress at the bar, said she was sitting in the break room at the bar when the crash happened. "I heard a large boom and the lights went out," she said.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
wral.com | Carly Haynes |John Rector |Joseph Ochoa
On Friday, Raleigh police released the phone calls from the series of shootings on Nov. 4-7. According to the Raleigh Police Department, at least eight vehicles and four buildings were shot at beginning on Monday. The only person hit was a woman driving her SUV on Monday along Interstate 40 near Chapel Hill Road and Cary Towne Boulevard. She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. "I don't know what happened," the woman said to a 911 dispatcher.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
wral.com | Monica Casey |John Rector |Jessica Patrick
The North Carolina mountains continue to heal from Hurricane Helene. On Tuesday, the state Department of Transportation (NCDOT) announced that Interstate 40 near Pigeon River Gorge will reopen with one lane in each direction by New Year's Day, allowing access to the Tennessee-North Carolina state line. An additional 11 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway reopened Wednesday in Asheville from milepost 382.5 at U.S. 70 near the Folk Art Center to milepost 393.6 at N.C. Route 191 near the N.C. Arboretum.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
wral.com | Monica Casey |Jessica Patrick |John Rector
Election Day on Tuesday looked different for some voters in western North Carolina. Four polling sites in Yancey County, one of 25 counties impacted by Hurricane Helene, were operating out of tents -- rain or shine. Yancey County resident and first-time voter Rebekah Hensley was one of hundreds who voted at a tent site.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
wral.com | Monica Casey |Jessica Patrick |John Rector
Early voting saw a record turnout across North Carolina. In the western portion of the state, nearly 59% of registered voters voted before Election Day or by absentee ballot -- that's hire than the statewide turnout of 57% of registered voters. "We had wonderful turnout for early voting," Corinne Duncan, Buncombe County's elections director, said Monday. "In Buncombe County alone, we had 116,000 registered voters turn out.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
wral.com | Carly Haynes |John Rector |Joseph Ochoa
The man was part of the Halloween festivities in Chapel Hill. Several people of all ages on Thursday made their way to Chapel Hill for Halloween festivities. Downtown Chapel Hill is known for rounding up some of the best costumes on the holiday, especially along Franklin Street, and it’s a decades-long tradition. “We’re trying to be the change that we want to see in this world by dressing crazy, and we’re just hoping everyone else will,” said Ava Sharon, a sophomore at UNC.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
wral.com | Aaron Thomas |Jelia Hepner |John Rector
Enhanced security measures will be in place Tuesday for students and staff at Broughton Magnet High School following an incident involving a student who allegedly had a gun off campus. According to an email obtained by WRAL, school leaders were alerted by Raleigh Police after a tip about the weapon. Although the gun was found off campus, some parents are questioning its exact location, the student’s intentions, and whether it may have made its way onto school grounds.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador |Monica Casey |John Rector
It was a colorful display Thursday across North Carolina skies as a geomagnetic storm triggered northern lights in the United States -- and a few people may be able to see the wonder again Friday night. WRAL meteorologist Aimee Wilmoth said, for most of the U.S., the northern lights will not be visible again Friday night. The line of maximum visibility Friday night is in the far northern portion of the country, as visible in this map.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador |Monica Casey |John Rector
It was a colorful display Thursday across the North Carolina skies as a geomagnetic storm triggered northern lights Thursday night in the United States,Several North Carolina residents started sending WRAL News photos of the phenomenon around 7:25 p.m.NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) had issued a G4 geomagnetic storm watch. It comes in reaction to an Earth facing coronal mass ejection (CME) that erupted from the sun Tuesday evening.
