Some disturbing news yesterday from the AP:  Since 2005, nine women who lived at the edges of the poor community in this small North Carolina city have disappeared. Six bodies were found along rural roads just a few miles outside town, most so decomposed that investigators could not tell how they died....

Bullies tend to search out the weakest member of any group to pick on in order to minimize the chance of being fought back. So surprise, surprise, the anti-Obamacare patriots, fresh off booing the presidential motorcade, doubled down last Friday on Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) as he met with a few constituents...

Like any true alky, I love this website. Outrageous behavior tersely packed into something like: (678): I read the report. You asked the cop if you could use his in-car computer to update fbook. No way you get out of a DUI. or: (757): i spent 15 mins trying to take money out of ATM with my drivers license...

Look. Not trying to hate on everything at this site.  Case in point: Whether you’re looking to make bad tickets to the gun show jokes, re-create the “Don’t taze me, bro!!!!” incident(me), or just want to strap up, last weekend at the State Fairgrounds was for you! The fervor...

If you weren’t one of the lucky 600 to receive two tickets to President Obama’s town hall meeting at Broughton High Wednesday, there were still a few options: watch the event live on TV/the Internet, get on Twitter to narcissistically vent about how ensuring the President’s safety was ruining...

It used to be you couldn’t get a negative word in. Now, The Urban Outfitters EZ Trend-Stealer fixie was but the latest chink in the armor of this once-invincible trend. Commenters have been documenting the fixed-gear backlash in major metropolitan areas, as the steady flood of newjacks and the...

You know them: whining endlessly about their students, annoying the piss out of waitresses when out painting the town red, self-absorbed blowhards who can’t make it five minutes without reverting to job talk. Teachers! When the NC budget faced a $65 million shortfall earlier this year, Gov. Perdue...

A fake Craigslist ad. What a sense of humor! No wonder Zach Galifianakis dropped out of NC State.

If you’ve ever had occasion to pull off at exit 303 on I-40, you probably noticed the sprawling monolith that is the ConAgra plant on Jones Sausage Rd., just a stone’s throw over the Raleigh line in Garner.  An explosion rocked the plant on June 9th, killing three and unearthing a terrible...