North Carolina is part of Apple’s $500 billion U.S. expansion plans. Apple will expand facilities in nine states over the next four years and create 20,000 jobs, the tech giant said in a news release Monday. With the company’s largest ever financial commitment, it is focusing on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering and skills development.

Apple plans to expand operations in Maiden, North Carolina — roughly 45 minutes from Charlotte — as part of its $500 billion, four-year U.S. expansion, the company announced Monday morning. Why it matters: This is Apple's largest financial commitment to date,

Authorities said the group's leader is a "highly aggressive" pit mix with a history of killing small animals. Officials captured him Monday.

Animal control officers made progress Monday rounding up a pack of “highly aggressive” wild dogs who have been terrorizing a central North Carolina town for a month. The group of dogs first emerged in Scotland Neck before February 3 and soon residents were warned about the group “attacking chickens and small pets,

The pack of wild dogs has a lead dog that "is a pit mix and is highly aggressive, with a history of attacking and killing small animals," according to Scotland Neck police.