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🌱 Coffee reach leads to pickup rollover near Morrisville, troopers say

Morrisville, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • Coffee reach leads to pickup rollover near Morrisville, troopers say
  • Green Hope falls to Rolesville in second-round football playoffs

Also on today's calendar: Year-Round Gardening: Plant Garlic, Onions and Shallots - Oh My!.

Today's riddle: What do you call an angry carrot? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Sunday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 56 and low of 36 degrees.
  • Monday: Thickening clouds, temps: high: 58, low: 31.
  • Tuesday: Plenty of sun, with a high of 60 and low of 32 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Reaching for coffee, driver crashes into Wake County guardrail, flips pickup truck near Morrisville: Troopers (cbs17.com) — A driver reaching for coffee flipped a company pickup on an N.C. 885 Toll ramp near Morrisville Saturday morning, troopers said. He suffered minor injuries and was cited for failing to maintain lane control. The ramp reopened after 9 a.m., with orange barrels marking the damaged guardrail until repairs are made.
   

• NC high school football playoff scores for Week 2 of 2026 season (cbs17.com) — Green Hope fell to Rolesville 55–6 in the second round of the North Carolina high school football playoffs. Elsewhere in Class 8A East, Friendship beat Leesville Road 28–10 and Millbrook defeated Laney 42–6, as the statewide score roundup tracked results across public- and private-school brackets.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • How This Employee-Owned Restaurant Won Hearts in Cary, NC (newsbreak.com)
  • Why a Danish journalist wrote about Cary and the U.S. midterms for Europeans (newsobserver.com)
  • No. 1 SMU Set To Take On No. 12 North Carolina In ACC Championship Final (smumustangs.com)

Apex

  • Two arrested in Apex drug trafficking, stolen gun investigation (wral.com)

Ok Morrisville! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call an angry carrot?" — A steamed vegetable (Thank you Kathy J. for sending it in!)
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