* Gov. Beverly Perdue had a brief run in with a bear while taking her two dogs outside during a visit to the Western Residence in Asheville.
* News & Observer cutting 27 full-time reporters and editors as part of a companywide plan to pay down debt owed to Wall Street.
* Central Regional Hospital in Butner is again in danger of losing federal funding after a patient tried to commit suicide using a bedsheet.
* North Carolina ranks near the bottom on a per-capita basis of states receiving federal stimulus money for road and bridge projects.



