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With Friday’s announcement that Wolfspeed will make semiconductor chips in Chatham County, and previous big announcements by Toyota and VinFast, NC is quickly filling holes in the new economy, with a focus on electric vehicles. A new manufacturing hub is growing in the NC core, bringing jobs and money. It will impact North Carolina’s economy for decades to come.

A fight between a North Carolina-based group of insurance companies and the state regulator that took control of them is in its fourth year — a saga that includes $1.2 billion and has endured allegations of bribery and fraud. As the dispute drags on, some investors wonder if they’ll die before getting their money back.

After the death of Deputy Ned Byrd, some of the officers who worked with him and attended his funeral were reassigned. Sources tell WRAL News this was a punishment from Sheriff Gerald Baker. In addition, Byrd’s family was devastated to find out that the sheriff’s office had asked that all of his belongings that were on him when he was killed be returned to his employer, not them.

A woman drove to a hospital where her two little girls were dead in the back seat of her car. The mother now faces two murder charges. Few details have been released, and it's left our WRAL News team and the community searching for answers as to why this tragedy happened.

For the first time in almost twenty years a Wake County deputy is shot and killed in the line of duty. In the hours that followed WRAL News reporters scrambled to bring our viewers the latest information while investigators scrambled to catch the suspects. It’s a challenging story to cover because law enforcement is much more interested in catching the killers than feeding the media. In this episode we speak with Chelsea Donovan, one of the WRAL team members who led this coverage.