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Cost curve bends, but not enough

When it comes to health-care inflation — a major burden for households and businesses as well as the primary driver of federal deficits — even glimmers of good news deserve notice, study, even celebration. That’s why a recent working paper from Harvard University’s David Cutler and Lev Klarnet is getting so much attention. It found...

Judge tosses former NCSU athletes’ sexual abuse lawsuit

A Wake County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit from 31 former North Carolina State University athletes who alleged that NCSU’s former sports medicine director abused them sexually.

Wake commissioners question Atrium-WakeMed merger

Wake County Commissioners heard from officials from WakeMed, Atrium Health and others on the proposed merger between the two hospital systems at a work session on Monday.

Judge confirms GOP victory in voting dispute over ‘never residents’

A Superior Court judge has ruled that so-called “never residents” cannot vote in any North Carolina election, confirming a result Republican groups predicted two weeks earlier.