🍫 Raleigh chocolatier Escazu Chocolates will expand its operations to the Gateway Plaza shopping center. (Triangle Business Journal🔒)
💰 Jazz Pharmaceuticals bought Durham biotech firm Chimerix, which has a brain cancer drug being considered by the FDA, for $935 million. (Fierce Biotech)
🗣️ North Carolina Republican Rep. Richard Hudson, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, is telling his fellow GOP lawmakers to stop holding in-person town halls because of the backlash to the Trump administration's policies. (The Assembly)
🦎 A new elementary school in Wendell will be named Marshburn Road Elementary School after the Wake County Board of Education voted 5-1 on Tuesday to pick that name over Lizard Lick Elementary. (WRAL)
✈️ TSA detected 50 guns at airports across North Carolina during January and February of this year. That's 18 more than the same period last year. (TSA)
Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the state's busiest airport, accounted for 27 firearms, followed by Raleigh-Durham International Airport's 14.
⛰️ GROW NC has launched a public dashboard for updates on Western North Carolina recovery following Hurricane Helene.
