VIRTUAL GROWTH: Enrollment in virtual, online high school classes has surged just as tight school budgets have closed off some traditional courses. (N&O)

HACK INVESTIGATED: The Attorney General's office is investigating a security breach at the UNC-Chapel Hill medical school in which a hacker infiltrated a computer containing information for a mammography study. Many of the women only learned their data was being studied when they received a letter informing them of the hacker. (N&O)

LOOK WHAT WE FOUND: Gov. Beverly Perdue announced that the state found $15 million to shore up community services for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled just hours before advocates for those groups planned to criticize spending cuts. (AP)