Category Archives: WPTF News
NCMA: museum director leaving for Middle East position
RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) - The director of the state's art museum is leaving in two weeks to lead the opening of a new art museum in the United Arab Emirates. North Carolina Museum of Art Director and...
Aug 04, 2026 Valerie Hillings is leaving as director of the North Carolina Museum of Art.
(Photo Courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources)
BEFORE THE BELL: Oil prices gain and global shares are mostly higher after a rally on Wall Street
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) - Global shares were mostly higher Tuesday following a rally on Wall Street that was helped by easing oil prices. Regional investors were still weighing ...
Aug 04, 2026 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - MARCH 05: Currency dealers work in front of an electronic screen showing South Korea's benchmark stock index (KOSPI) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters on March 05, 2026 in Seoul, South Korea.
(Photo by Han Myung-Gu/Getty Images)
UPDATE: Arson suspect arrested as Spokane battles devastating wildfires
By LINDSEY WASSON, ED WHITE and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A man from Spokane, Washington, was arrested and charged with setting one of the three devastating wildfires that ar...
Aug 03, 2026 Miriam Sim, 76, reacts while talking about her neighborhood largely burning to the ground after a wildfire hit the northern part of Spokane, Wash., Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
RALEIGH BEACH: Second drowning in as many months.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) -- The Wake County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a male found in the Neuse River. On Monday (August 3), just before 1 p.m. deputies responded to a report of perso...
Aug 03, 2026 (Photo courtesy Wake County Sheriff's Department)
CAM plans to sell downtown Raleigh location, looks at other options
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) - Citing a desire to become "a nimbler, more sustainable institution," leaders at the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh have announced plans to sell their building on 409 West Ma...
Aug 03, 2026 The building of the Contemporary Museum of Art in downtown Raleigh is for sale (photo courtesy Visit Raleigh)
Ethics panel recommends House censure Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards for conduct with two aides
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Ethics Committee recommended Monday that the House censure Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., after finding that he engaged in persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct ...
Aug 03, 2026
THE CLOSING BELL: US stocks rally near a record as falling oil prices ease Wall Street's worries about inflation
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks rallied to the edge of their all-time high after easing oil prices helped calm Wall Street's worries that inflation could get even worse. Th...
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$400 million deal reached on drug price fixing
RALEIGH, N.C. (NCN News) -- Attorney General Jeff Jackson and a group of 43 bipartisan attorneys general reacheda$400million settlementin principlewithSandoz Inc., a generic drug manufacturer, over dr...
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Michigan reports the first 2 US deaths related to a diarrhea-causing parasite
By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday, the first deaths confirmed in the U.S. related to the microsc...
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Trump claims Iran talks will start Monday, and other developments in the Middle East
By SAMY MAGDY and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press CAIRO (AP) - U.S. President Donald Trump said new talks to wind down the war in Iran will start Monday, after announcing he is holding off on new mas...
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