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McKissick house being considered for National Registry of Historic Places
Affectionately called Freedom House, the house at 1123 N. Roxboro St. owned by the late Floyd B. McKissick Sr. and his wife, the late Evelyn McKissick, was home to more than just the McKissick family in the 1950s and ’60s, but the Durham civil rights movement, too. Thanks to a Preservation Durham project documenting African-American historic sites, the McKissick House is on a National Register ...
Auditors question handling of ...
City auditors say Durham’s Community Development Department needs to tighten up the way it screen...
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Dentists fill a need at free c...
Dentists did more than fill teeth at Friday’s free dental clinic at the Durham County Health Depa...
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Three UNC students face cocain...
Three UNC students, all former athletes, were charged with felony possession of cocaine early Fri...
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Endowment outpacing other scho...
The growth of Duke University’s endowment continues to outpace that of other schools, but the fun...
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Math that warms the heart
rating 100th day of school, students collect estimated 7,500 cans of food
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Orange County
PTA Thrift Shop celebrate...
Over the years, people have donated tons and tons of items to the PTA Thrift Shop, from chipped coffee cups to cars, but operations manager Valecia Jones remembers the stra...
Retirement a normal step for Hackney
State Rep. Joe Hackney, D-Orange, dropped a bombshell Thursday when he announced that he would not seek re-election. And although th...
Council rejects mixed-use development
Bill Christian, principal developer in the controversial Charterwood mixed-use project, appeared a bit shell-shocked after the Town ...
UNC incubator launches to fuel growth of social start-ups
A test that can ensure water in developing countries is safe to drink. A musical instrument lending program. A community garden that...
Good writing, not-so-good news
The good news is that Kathy Pories is going to talk about Southern writers on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch at 5 p.m. today.
Ross recommends 8.8% tuition hike
Tuition across the 16 university campuses in the UNC System will increase an average of 8.8 percent – about $470 -- in 2012-13 for i...
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Lady Pirates upset Hillside
This makes the second week in a row that the Riverside girls’ basketball team has taken it to one of the elite teams in the PAC-6, handing Hillside its first conference def...
Williams isn’t looking forward to facing Turgeon, Terps
After Maryland coach Mark Turgeon was ejected in an eventual double-overtime loss to Miami on Wednesday, he received a sympathetic c...
UNC women survive Cavs’ rally
As a tuneup for Monday’s showdown against No. 5 Duke, North Carolina played a little off key but still came away with a 64-56 win ov...
Rockets pull out victory over Falcons
After high-flying basketball theatrics, slam dunks and white-hot player intensity, Friday night’s game between Roxboro Person and ho...
Tigers prevail in Hicks’ debut with Warriors
A standing-room only crowd of more than 1,200 saw Oxford hometown hero Isaiah Hicks make his Webb home debut Friday night.
ACC unveils scheduling plans for 14-team league
The ACC will play a nine-game schedule in football and every team will compete in the ACC basketball tournaments once Syracuse and P...
Lifestyle
Shakespeare’s King Henry,...
With actor Michael Winters as Falstaff, PlayMakers takes on ‘Henry IV’ and ‘Henry V’
Religion and science in harmony during Evolution Weekend
Hillsborough United Church of Christ participated in the first Evolution Weekend seven years ago and has continued, says the Rev. J....
Tosh, James bringing big laughs to DPAC
Daniel Tosh, star of the Comedy Central series “Tosh.0,” and Kevin James, star of the hit comedies “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” and “Zooke...
BELIEF BRIEFS, Feb. 2
Black history film series at Mt. Vernon Baptist
Perdue urges sponsors to help provide kids with summer meals
More than one in four children in North Carolina are not getting enough food to eat to lead healthy, active lives, according to the ...
ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS, Feb. 3
‘Braveheart’ director to speak at Duke
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This week in Pictures
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(center L)  Andrew Reddish Jr., and Adrian Hogans (R) are working on a robotic project, Saturday , January 28, 2012, in the Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat, during the  learning event “The George Washington Carver STEM Symposium” where participants will engage in robotics projects requiring to use math and science to solve problems with their teammates.
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