The cicadas, which are initially burrowed underground, emerge once soil temperatures reach 64 to 65 degrees, said cicada expert Gene Kritsky.

The final Tuesday of the college basketball regular season lived up to the hype, as Ohio State, North Carolina and Arkansas picked up massive wins to keep their respective hopes of an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament alive.

All of the recent trends in North Carolina’s rapid population growth are expected to continue so that within five years North Carolina will jump from ninth-largest to seventh even as birth rates decline and the average age keeps going up,

North Carolina's NCAA Tournament hopes got a big boost on Tuesday night, as Ohio State outlasted Nebraska in a wild Big Ten game that could help the Tar Heels wind up on the right side of the bubble come Selection Sunday.

The bubble is starting to shrink as the college basketball season winds down. Tuesday morning, Wake Forest fell off of it in the wrong direction following a 93-60 loss at Duke on Monday night.  There are 10 bubble games on Tuesday and each of them features a bubble team on the road.

Barring a perfect run through the ACC tournament, it will be two missed NCAA Tournaments in three seasons for North Carolina, far from the standard expectations in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels fell short when they couldn't afford it. They lead the bubble winners and losers on the final weekend of the regular season.

Jeremy Gudorf, 33, was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport last week. Police said he had an outstanding warrant in North Carolina.