Lexi Solomon
Emerging News Reporter at The News & Observer
emerging news reporter @newsobserver. @virginia_tech alum. Thoughts & opinions 100% mine. Send tips to [email protected]! 🇨🇺 🏳️🌈
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1 week ago |
newsobserver.com | Lexi Solomon
Durham police used a suspicious car and trash evidence to identify Quentin Holloway. Surveillance footage, DNA matches and fingerprints linked Holloway to the rape. Authorities arrested Holloway in Charlotte after tracking his new location via IP address. Editor's note: This story contains details of a sexual assault allegation, which will be disturbing to some readers.
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1 week ago |
newsobserver.com | Lexi Solomon
A Wake County Public School System staff member was arrested Tuesday after allegedly abusing a student. Betsy Rene Mattocks, 56, of Clayton, is charged with misdemeanor child abuse, according to a release from the Wake County Sheriff's Office. The alleged assault was reported May 19, the release said. Mattocks is listed as an instructional assistant at Smith Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh, according to the school's website.
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1 week ago |
tri-cityherald.com | Mark Price |Lexi Solomon
Carteret County deputies were called to Goose Creek Camp Ground in Newport around 9 p.m. Saturday, June 14, after a boy was found unresponsive in the pool, the sheriff’s office said. Street View image from Nov. 2013. © 2025 Google A family’s weekend visit to the North Carolina coast ended in tragedy when their 4-year-old was found unresponsive in a campground pool, investigators say.
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2 weeks ago |
newsobserver.com | Lexi Solomon
A California man was sentenced in federal court Thursday after threatening synagogues and public officials throughout the Triangle. A California man was sentenced in federal court Thursday for antisemitic and violent threats he made against public officials, synagogues and law enforcement in Raleigh and Durham.
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2 weeks ago |
newsobserver.com | Lexi Solomon
Howard Covington pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2023 killing. Text messages and GPS evidence linked Covington to fatal Garner apartment shooting. Patee Bell remains jailed on pending murder charge with $1 million bond in Wake County. Two years after a Garner man was fatally shot at his apartment, one of two people accused of plotting the burglary that led to his death has pleaded guilty to murder.
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