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RALEIGH, N.C. - Now Jinx Taylor knows just how impeccable her father's taste was: four pieces of jade he bought back in the 1930s and 1940s are worth more than $1 million.

RALEIGH, N.C. - In a June 16 story about a North Carolina college student accused of stealing traffic barrels to make a sculpture, The Associated Press misreported the name of the company that owns the barrels.

RALEIGH, N.C. - When Joseph Carnevale chopped up three stolen orange and white traffic barrels from a construction site to create a massive sculpture of a roadside monster thumbing a ride, the North Carolina college student said he saw it as a form of street art.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Evan Rachel Wood has a starring role in the soon-to-be-released Woody Allen film and guest-stars in "True Blood." She's got a racy photo spread in the latest issue of GQ, and she hopes to play Mary Jane in the Broadway production of "Spider-Man." So why did the 21-year-old Raleigh native return home starring as Juliet in six performances of "Romeo and Juliet" (starting Friday) as a fundraiser for Theatre In The Park, which her father manages? "It was where I started," the actress said in an interview between rehearsals last week.

RALEIGH, N.C. - A woman who spent 61 years in an iron lung yet graduated from college and wrote a book about her life has died at her North Carolina home.