As I begin this, I just got home from Palm Sunday Mass. It is a beautiful morning: warming sun, light breeze, hints of green. It is a time of beginnings. It is the beginning of Holy Week which will be ...

We continue this series (see November 29, January 3 and February 28)of articles by long-retired policeman Michael Smith, who is recounting ...

North Carolina will appeal the federal government's decision to cut off an estimated $200 million of funding for Hurricane ...