2 NC counties are under alert, including Cumberland County.

We’re also following round after round of showers for the weekend. Plus, how Raleigh’s fight against crime downtown may be paying off. Also, find out why the world’s top golfer is calling his arrest and charges a "big misunderstanding." Watch WRAL News at 4 p.m., and search for these and other stories on WRAL.com.

On WRAL at 4: Man exposes himself to young girls & threatens to shoot up school, police say. How an online computer game played a role.

In all three of these sewer blowback cases, the homes were below the grade of the road or downstream from the main sewer line itself.

How sewage floods at home turned into nightmares for Raleigh families

Sewage floods inside Raleigh homes

The North Carolina Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public for health reasons, following an emotional debate about the wisdom of the proposal.


NC Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public for health reasons

Protestors gather in Graham 

Triangle area McDonald's will be offering a free biscuit to customers with any purchase from Sunday, May 11 to Tuesday, May 13 during lunch hours!  Read on for the details. 

Triangle and Sandhills McDonald's will be offering a free biscuit to customers with any purchase from Sunday, May 11 to Tuesday, May 13 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm! <br />

With this free “Biscuit Love”  event, customers will receive a free McDonald’s scratch-made flaky biscuit, baked fresh every morning in stores.

This promotion is taking place at participating Triangle and Sandhills McDonald's locations so you may want to call ahead to see if your store is participating.

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FREE Biscuits at area McDonald's starting 5/11!

McDonald's biscuits 

Rain chances continue Friday into Saturday, which is now a WRAL Weather Alert Day. Clouds will stick around Friday and there's a chance for showers and storms with highs in the low 80s.



Mostly cloudy Friday with afternoon rain chance: WRAL Weather Alert Day issued for Saturday

Severe risk Saturday

In a span of four hours, the top-ranked golfer in the world was arrested wearing gym shorts and a tee shirt, dressed in an orange jail shirt for his mug shot, returned to Valhalla Golf Club in golf clothes and made his 10:08 a.m. second-round tee time.

Police: Scheffler's car dragged detective; Golfer booked, returns to PGA Championship

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The struggles are reflective of a national trend of resegregation, complicated by ongoing housing segregation and a changing education landscape.

NC schools are struggling with segregation 70 years after Brown v. Board, new research shows

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The incident involved 10-year-old girls who were playing on the popular internet gaming platform Roblox while at home, Raleigh police said.

Raleigh girls say man made threats, exposed himself to them while they played Roblox

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Troopers determined that 23-year-old Brittany Elizabeth Ferguson was killed by the rock thrown through her windshield as she drove on Conley Road near Morganton Wednesday night.

Troopers: Rock thrown through windshield kills NC woman

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Keep the umbrellas handy 

Daytime Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings are held at 3 p.m. daily. They can be seen as live or on-demand video.

Daytime Pick 3 and Pick 4 Drawing

Sky 5 flies over a water rescue in Raleigh at Crabtree Boulevard and N. King Charles Road.

Sky 5 flies over water rescue in Raleigh

Nightly N.C. Education Lottery drawings during the 11 p.m. News.

Evening Pick 3 Pick 4 and Cash 5

Videos

Duke softball head coach Marissa Young shares the pains and the joys of the past year after her husband suffered a heart attack last year.

Duke softball carries coach after husband's heart attack

Duke softball head coach Marissa Young

The New York Rangers scored four third-period goals to beat the Carolina Hurricanes and eliminate them from the playoffs.

Rangers eliminate Hurricanes with third-period rally in Game 6

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UNC interim chancellor Lee Roberts lauded athletics director Bubba Cunningham on Thursday, just days after members of the school's Board of Trustees challenged Cunningham's management of the department.