Apex, North Carolina

• Apex Police Search For TV Theft Suspect
  

  17 10:20 am Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/49555/ APEX, N.C. - Apex Police are searching for a man wanted for stealing three LCD televisions from Target.

• Apex man hopes for transplant
  

  At age 25, Scott Robinson was the picture of health. As a cadet in the United States Air Force, Robinson was in peak physical condition.

• Apex PD Offering Reward In Armed Robbery Cases
  

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• Environmental Justice Summit held March 20
  

  On Saturday, March 20, the New Hill Community Association, in conjunction with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, will host a summit on environmental justice and environmental racism at the First Baptist Church New Hill from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Media are invited to attend the summit and ...

• Operation Medicine Drop helps locals clean out their medicine cabinets
  

  Unused and expired medications in a household can lead to some serious safety hazards.

• Author helps people deal with suicide
  

  Photo by Shawn Daley Cary resident Ron Pappalardo will hold a book signing event Saturday at All Booked Up in downtown Apex.

• Apex says no to Internet Cafes
  

  As the popularity of internet sweepstakes cafes grows so does the number of Triangle communities with one or more in their midst.

• A political conspiracy to endanger womena s health
  

  It seems like a conspiracy plot straight out of a Margaret Atwood novel. Within the course of two weeks, mostly behind closed doors, politicians, bureaucrats and trustees strip reproductive health coverage from insurance plans covering thousands of female employees.

• Unconvinced, Apex to study Internet caf s
  

  Rick Hancock and Ray Earnhardt, business partners seeking to open the town's first Internet sweepstakes parlor, say theirs is a legitimate and legal business unlike video poker operations, which are banned under state law.

• Apex Industrial Park Gains New Tenant
  

  Tucker-Kirby Co. leased 15,000 square feet of industrial space at 1220 Perry Road in Apex, NC.

• Institute Index: Re-segregating the South's schools
  

  Year in which Wake County, N.C. instituted an anti-segregation diversity policy that assigned students by economics rather than race: 2000 Year in which Wake County voters elected a new Republican-backed school board majority that opposes the diversity policy: 2009 Percentage of the county's voters that took part in that election: 4.5 Date on which ...

• Former Miss Garner continues her miracle-making volunteerism
  

  Chelsea Ingram of Cary, Miss Garner 2009 and this yeara s recipient of the Miss America/Childrena s Miracle Network Award for the state of NC continues to help raise funds for Dukea s Childrena s Miracle Network Hospital.

• Opinion Piece Takes Issue With Reasoning Behind N.C. Local Governments' Cuts To Abortion Coverage
  

  North Carolina House Minority Leader Paul Stam "is a committed, passionate and effective opponent of the right of North Carolina women to choose to terminate a pregnancy," but recently he "has turned to claimed legal mandates, that, on close reading, cannot be justified," according to a Raleigh News & Observer opinion piece by Gene Nichol, a ...

• Apex Businesses Feel The Brunt Of The Bad Winter
  

  4 7:57 am Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/48896/ APEX, N.C. - The winter weather may be fun for some, but business owners in Apex said they've had enough.

• Newspapers restructuring moves forward
  

  " Feb. 23, 2010 - " Heartland Publications, LLC, which operates 50 paid-circulation newspapers and numerous free or controlled distribution products in nine states , today announced that the requisite number of first-lien lenders, led by GE Capital as agent, support the Company's amended Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement.

• Local Counseling Practice Offers Low-Cost Services
  

  26 6:09 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/48693/ WAKE COUNTY, N.C. Apex, NC: If you don't have insurance, good counseling will cost you $125 an hour, right? Yes, but a local group counseling practice is finding ways to lower costs and provide more affordable therapy options.

• Council defends decision on abortions
  

  The majority of town leaders last week strongly defended their controversial decision to remove elective abortions from Apexa s employee insurance coverage.

• Town reevaluates incentives
  

  Apex town leaders have for many years emphatically expressed their distaste for offering incentives to businesses looking to relocate to the area.

• Police seek suspects in arsons
  

  Photo by Shawn Daley This is one of three unoccupied homes off Olive Chapel Rd. that were set fire by an arsonist.

City Description

Apex is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh. The population was 20,212 at the 2000 census and estimated to be 34,937 in 2009. Apex is located at 35°43′55″N 78°51′10″W / 35.731952°N 78.852878°W / 35.731952; -78.852878 (35.731952, -78.852878). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 10.6 square miles (27.5 km), of which, 10.5 square miles (27.3 km) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km) of it (0.57%) is water. Neighboring towns include Raleigh to the east, Cary to the north and northeast, and Holly Springs to the south. The town of Apex was incorporated in 1873, named for its location as the highest point on a portion of the Chatham Railroad which ultimately extends between Richmond, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida. Apex grew slowly through the succeeding decades, despite several devastating fires, including a June 12, 1911 conflagration which destroyed most of the downtown business district. The town center was rebuilt and stands to this day, now one of the most intact railroad towns in the state. At the heart of town stands the Apex Union Depot, originally a passenger station for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and

City Contained By:

• Wake County
• North Carolina

City Contains:

• Apex Historic District
• Apex Union Depot

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 27.4538739696 km squared

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