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Jun. 18, 2013 @ 09:39 PM

HEELS HANG ON

Once again, North Carolina has extended its NCAA Tournament run.

Jun. 18, 2013 @ 07:04 PM

Proposed Syngenta development could mean 100 new jobs for RTP

Syngenta could be in line for up to $375,000 in county incentives for a proposed expansion in the Research Triangle Park that could mean an additional 100 jobs and new construction.


Jun. 18, 2013 @ 07:26 PM

Man gunned down in East Durham neighborhood

A 37-year-old Durham man was shot to death Tuesday in the street of an East Durham neighborhood.


Jun. 18, 2013 @ 09:49 PM

Planning told to double potential cut

Senior administrators have ordered City/County Planning Director Steve Medlin to find a way to cut $169,516 out of his department fiscal 2013-14 budget to offset a lesser cut by the city to a different joint program.


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Jun. 18, 2013 @ 10:42 PM

BARNES RULES

Melvin Barnes' 3-under 139 edges Jeff Robinson for medalist honors in stroke-play qualifying segment of rain-delayed Herald-Sun Golf Classic. ... Stroke-play qualifying continues at 6:30 a.m. today with top two flights teeing off at completion of opening 36 holes.

Jun. 18, 2013 @ 11:38 PM

Backs to the wall, Tar Heels come through yet again

No. 1 UNC bounced back from a Sunday pounding by rival N.C. State with a 4-2 win over No. 4 Louisiana State Tuesday to stay alive in the College World Series. The win, coupled with a late N.C. State loss to UCLA sets up a UNC-N.C. State elimination game showdown Thursday night.


Jun. 18, 2013 @ 11:00 PM

Unfinished business; NCCU keeps coach as Frazier AD bid fails

Prairie View bypasses its former football coach, names MVSU AD Ashley Robinson as its new athletic director.


Jun. 18, 2013 @ 07:35 PM

Prep Notebook: Carrboro No. 1 among N.C. 2-A programs

Wells Fargo Cup goes to repeat winner Jaguars in 2-A ranks ... Last year's 1-A No. 1, N.C. Science & Math, falls to 4th.


Opinion View All »

Jun. 18, 2013 @ 07:34 PM
Jun. 18, 2013 @ 05:30 PM

James Holshouser Jr.’s ‘gentlemanly style’

James Eubert Holshouser Jr. was a transformative figure in North Carolina politics, a genial but tough mountain politician who led the rebirth of a Republican party marginalized for decades and then came to exemplify a strain of tempered partisanship that contrasts markedly with our present climate.


Jun. 18, 2013 @ 11:27 AM

Letters to the editor

  • More fact-based reporting
  • Mandating cursive is nonsense
  • Council has spoken

Jun. 18, 2013 @ 09:56 AM

Obama’s Syria move: This will not end well

In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop up ostensible "moderates" whose prospects are doubtful and, of course, the customary shaky grasp of what the fighting is really about.


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Jun. 14, 2013 @ 04:20 PM

Flow Therapy founders want to grow a business for water floats

When they lived on a lake together in Orange County, two partners behind a small start-up business selling animal-shaped children’s water floats called Zoo-Noodles would float together all the time, said Stephanie Cornette, a company founder.

 
Jun. 18, 2013 @ 07:42 PM

Business briefs

  •  Quintiles makes Computerworld list
  • Seeds from Burt’s Bees

Jun. 18, 2013 @ 07:04 PM

Proposed Syngenta development could mean 100 new jobs for RTP

Syngenta could be in line for up to $375,000 in county incentives for a proposed expansion in the Research Triangle Park that could mean an additional 100 jobs and new construction.


Jun. 18, 2013 @ 06:40 PM

Layoffs follow contract loss at HP unit

The layoff of 147 employees from a Hewlett Packard Co. business in Wake County follows the termination of a contract between the company and the N.C. Department of Hea


Lifestyles View All »

Jun. 17, 2013 @ 10:39 AM

Student of the Month: Value friends, opportunities at DSA

Kellie LeVine was the valedictorian of her graduating class this year at Durham School of the Arts. The active teenager boasts a high grade-point average and service to her community and peers, 324 hours to be exact.

Jun. 17, 2013 @ 12:36 PM

Grant recipient hopes to promote lifetime learning by aiding with transition to kindergarten

It was 10:30 on a Tuesday morning earlier this month when the group of 5-year-old children trekked through the doors at Pearsontown Elementary School in Durham. This was their very first visit on an elementary campus, organized as part of a Transition to Kindergarten event through their preschool, Toddlers Academy, Inc.


Jun. 14, 2013 @ 08:33 AM

Greenberg: ‘Art of the moment’ at CAM gallery

Against a background of photographs by nationally acclaimed artist Melanie Schiff, CAM (Contemporary Art Museum) is celebrating its first two years of operation in its renovated wholesale grocery building in downtown Raleigh.  The photographs cover a four-year period when the artist was traveling between Los Angeles and Chicago; they are about the places she saw, the suggestion of past presences and how light plays its magic on those sights.


Jun. 17, 2013 @ 09:47 AM

Campus briefs

  • Durham Tech receives $5,000 grant from Bank of America
  • More local students graduate, make spring dean’s lists
  • Scholarship recipients receive thousands of dollars for upcoming school year