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The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday. It's the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs — on hold earlier in the month. The administration has said it paused that earlier transfer to keep Israel from using the bombs in its growing offensive in the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.

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As the number of juvenile offenders climbs, the state is looking at alternatives crowded detention centers to make sure young people already convicted of crimes can turn their lives around. 

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Police found a mean dead in the 6100 block of Foxhall Village Road around 1 a.m.

<b>RALEIGH, N.C.</b> — Raleigh police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened early Wednesday morning.

A police spokesman said in a news release that officers responding around 1 a.m. to a shooting in the 6100 block of Foxhall Village Road found Alfonso Canjay, 42, of Raleigh, dead at the scene.

Detectives are looking for two men in their late 20s who stand between 5 feet 6 and 5 feet 8 inches. One was wearing a blue-gray hooded sweatshirt; the other was bald and wearing a hooded sweatshirt.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Raleigh Crime Stoppers at 919-834-4357 or go to the Crime Stoppers <a href="http://www.raleighcrimestoppers.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.

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Storms moving through central North Carolina caused flash floods and severe weather as they continued moving east.

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Republican Brad Knott won the Republican in the 13th Congressional District seat, a victory that comes less than two weeks after being endorsed by competitor Kelly Daughtry, who suspended her campaign this month. The redrawn district heavily favors the GOP in November.

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