Josh Shaffer

1 day ago | yahoo.com | Josh Shaffer

The tangled story of a widowed Irish businessman who married his children’s nanny in a storybook love affair will serve as the setting for a Netflix true-crime documentary, following them across the ocean to North Carolina and a fatal struggle in the family bedroom. “A Deadly American Marriage” premieres on May 9, billed as a “tragic love story” in which an idyllic romance turns dark.

3 days ago | newsobserver.com | Josh Shaffer |Kristen Johnson

Bishop Michael Burbidge, who led Raleigh's Catholic diocese for 10 years, fondly remembered Pope Francis as a powerful voice for the poor and the needy, a leader who considered compassion a "mandate from the Lord himself."Burbidge, who now the Bishop of Arlington in Virginia, recalled carrying the cornerstone from Raleigh's Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral to Rome to get the pontiff's blessing, where he presented it to Francis personally.

3 days ago | newsobserver.com | Josh Shaffer

An 1865 depiction of Charleston, S.C., being burned by Union troops near the Civil War's end. This destruction weighed heavily on Raleigh's mind as those troops entered the city. In April of 1865, Raleigh found itself under the uncomfortable thumb of the Union army, a horde of 15,000 led by the hated Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, all of them perched on top of Dix Hill fresh from burning Atlanta, torching Columbia and beating the rebels into near-defeat.

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Josh Shaffer

In April of 1865, Raleigh found itself under the uncomfortable thumb of the Union army, a horde of 15,000 led by the hated Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, all of them perched on top of Dix Hill fresh from burning Atlanta, torching Columbia and beating the rebels into near-defeat. The mayor had already surrendered the city, hoping to save Raleigh from the flames, and the long, bloody ordeal seemed all but finished for the ragged soldiers camped nearby. And then a telegraph arrived, bearing grim news.

5 days ago | citizensvoice.com | Josh Shaffer

As the de facto mayor of Wakefield, Winston the Bengal cat carries a reputation for wanderlust in his North Raleigh neighborhood, tagging along on walks, snooping through garages, ducking out at night on secret feline errands — never happy sitting still with a kingdom to explore.“He gets around,” said Amy Galland, his human.As a kitten, he would climb the walls and hang there, feeling suffocated by the indoors. He would tug at his collar to the point his feet got stuck.