Communities across N.C. work to curb suicides amid worsening mental health crisis

CONTENT WARNING: This article references suicide. Please take caution when reading. If you need mental health support, call or text the national suicide and crisis lifeline — 988 — or consult our mental health resources page. Rik Emaus came home one afternoon in August 2021 to find his teenage daughter distraught. “She just had this absolute look of loss and pain that I’ll never forget,” Emaus said, recalling how he found his daughter sitting on the couch holding a picture of her and three friends in their middle school prom...