Category Archives: WPTF News
US stocks edge back from their records as oil prices swing higher
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks pulled back from their record heights on a shaky Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Thursday to halt its weekslong rally. The Dow Jones ...
Apr 23, 2026 Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 20, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Authorities say they arrested a Chapel Hill man planning a mass shooting at a large New Orleans festival
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Authorities say a former North Carolina law enforcement officer planned to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a major New Orleans festival but was arrested at a Florida hotel w...
Apr 23, 2026 FILE - Thousands of festival goers are seen on the first day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival April 28, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
New details: Sheriff's office identifies shooting victim, suspect still sought
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) - The search for a suspect continues into a Wednesday night (April 22) shooting near Zebulon that left one person dead and several injured. The Sheriff's Department has identified...
Apr 23, 2026
Warner Bros shareholders approve Paramount's $81 billion takeover of the Hollywood giant
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - An $81 billion Warner-Paramount mega merger has received shareholders' stamp of approval, propelling a deal that could vastly reshape Holl...
Apr 23, 2026 An aerial view of the Paramount logo displayed on the water tower at Paramount Studios on December 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana ...
Apr 23, 2026 FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, marijuana plants with their buds covered in white crystals called trichomes, are a few weeks away from harvest at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill.. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
Drug maker to build manufacturing campus in Durham
DURHAM, N.C. (WPTF) - Durham will be home to a new $1.4 billion, 185-acre pharmaceutical manufacturing campus that will bring hundreds of short-term and long-term jobs. Local and state leaders announc...
Apr 22, 2026 Durham will be home to a new $1.4 billion, 185-acre pharmaceutical manufacturing campus that will bring hundreds of short-term and long-term jobs. (artist rendering courtesy AbbVie)
Former Benson Cop faces rape, kidnapping charges
RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) -- A former Benson police officer is now facing rape and kidnapping charges. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation made the arrest after an investigation requested ...
Apr 22, 2026
Iran fires on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as US maintains blockade and diplomacy stalls
By JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on ...
Apr 22, 2026 ARABIAN SEA - APRIL 20: In this handout photo provided by U.S. Central Command, U.S. forces patrol the Arabian Sea near M/V Touska on April 20, 2026, after firing upon the Iranian-flagged vessel that the U.S. accused of attempting to violate the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz. (Handout Photo by the U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
Smithfield announces plans for new Tobs home
SMITHFIELD, N.C. (WPTF) -- The Johnston County town of Smithfield is taking another step toward bringing collegiate summer baseball to town next year. In a release, town leaders said that 58 acres loc...
Apr 22, 2026
Legislature approves Medicaid funding, adds measures to fight abuse and fraud
RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) -- Only two days into the Short Session, the General Assembly voted for a deal to provide up to $319 million more in funding for Medicaid to finish out the fiscal year that en...
Apr 22, 2026