WRAL Daily Download

Police made a gruesome discovery after neighbors reported seeing a fire in the yard of a Cary home on Sunday. In the fire pit they found the remains of 34-year-old Cecily Anne Walker-Scott. They also located 35-year-old Ian Delauder with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an RV on the property. In this episode, WRAL reporter Chelsea Donovan brings us up to speed on the investigation.

It’s been the topic of heated debate across the country and here in North Carolina. How does the map that defines where people vote impact the outcome of elections locally and nationally? WRAL’s state government reporter Will Doran joins us in this episode the break down what redistricting is, how it works and what it means to voters.

Thieves busted a Raleigh woman’s car window and stole her purse, but that was just the beginning. Months later scammers had cleaned out her account, and she was caught in an unhelpful loop with the bank’s customer service. Until she called Keely. WRAL 5 On Your Side’s Keely Arthur returns to make sure YOU know how to protect yourself from hackers and thieves.

A recent report finds that North Carolina’s universities need to do more to prepare educators to teach reading to the state’s K-12 students. The situation has raised the ire of University of North Carolina Board of Governors, which is now threatening action if they don’t turn things around. The UNC system’s universities have less than four months to improve. WRAL Education Insider explains what they’re doing to get better and how reading education has evolved over the years.

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the surface of the lake where you are swimming? Well, lakes in North Carolina have other worlds lurking beneath their surfaces including a train, an airplane, cemeteries, and remnants of lost rural communities. In this episode, WRAL Hidden History reporter Heather Leah takes us underwater to reveal the mysteries of the deep. 

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Have you ever wondered why there is a crumbling chimney or a rusted car along the trail where you’re hiking in the Triangle? You may have even walked by an old cemetery in the woods and not even seen it. In this episode, WRAL’s Hidden History reporter, Heather Leah, takes us to some of these spots along hiking trails in our area and shares the stories behind some of these unusual monuments to our past.

More than 4000 people in North Carolina died from drug overdoses in 2021. This is the highest number of drug-abuse deaths ever recorded in our state in a single year. 77% of those deaths involved fentanyl according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. In this episode, WRAL documentary reporter and producer Cristin Severance tells us about her upcoming documentary: “Crisis Next Door.”

Weighed down with high expectations, UNC’s men’s basketball team never really got it going this season. Now they’ve missed the NCAA Tournament, despite starting the season ranked No. 1. What went wrong? Where do the Tarheels go from here? How much are Duke and NC State fans loving this? WRAL Sports Director Jason Jennings visits the Daily Download to hash it all out.

The new Republican majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court recently made the extraordinary decision to rehear two big voting rights cases that Democrats won in 2022. The justices’ choice, which questions decisions by the previous Democratic-majority court, could reverberate well beyond the 2024 elections and they raise philosophical questions about the court’s path forward. WRAL State Government Reporter Will Doran breaks it down.

In 1961, a B-52 Bomber bound for the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base crashed in Wayne County. It was carrying two nuclear bombs which fell into the wetlands there. Amazingly, they did not detonate. Most of the evidence of the nuclear bombs has been removed from the site…but they didn’t get all of it. And many people remember the day as the day their world almost changed forever. Hidden History reporter Heather Leah explains what happened and what is there now.

https://www.wral.com/nuclear-mishap-the-night-two-atomic-bombs-dropped-in-north-carolina/20088410/