Vinnie Boccanfuso

North Carolina residents were caught up in the largest ever Justice Department health care fraud takedown on Monday. According to the DOJ, 324 defendants, including 96 medical professionals, were charged for alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving more than $14.6 billion. Five of those defendants have pending cases in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Seven others have been convicted. "This is a really big deal,” Acting US Attorney Daniel Bubar said.

North Carolina State graduate and former student body president Kevin Howell is returning to his alma mater as the university's first Black chancellor. Howell, a longtime executive at the university, is currently the chief external affairs officer for UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health. He begins at the university on May 5. He is the first former student body president to be chancellor.

A boy has died Saturday after they were pulled from a retention pond on Friday in Wake County. Around 12:40 p.m., firefighters and EMS responded to a water treatment plant on Hasentree Way near Wake Forest. Sky 5 flew over the large emergency response at 1:15 p.m. First responders provided CPR to the child, who was found in the pond, according to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office. The child was transported to a hospital in life-threatening condition.