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Job picture bright for class of '08
DURHAM -- For the fresh-faced and hopeful students who will toss their caps in the air at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill's commencements today, there is a silver lining in this economy: For the class of 2008, the job market is still looking good.
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Holy wingspan, bat man!
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The Herald-Sun/Mark Dolejs
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| Rob Mies, director of the Bat Zone at Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., shows off the nearly six-foot wingspan of a Malaysian flying fox, the world's largest species of bat, during a program on bats Saturday at Durham's Museum of Life & Science. |
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Duke athletics get $7.5M lift, so far
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DURHAM -- The Duke University Board of Trustees on Saturday approved a $2 billion budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year, and it also unveiled an innovative, subsidy-doubling "strategic plan for athletics" that is said to be the first of its kind for the Blue Devils. |
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Chefs offer fresh take on local food
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CHAPEL HILL -- Back in the days of hippies and the back-to-the-land movement, a restaurant advertising itself as natural or organic was sure to serve plenty of brown rice and chopped vegetables. |
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Bar sets hearing on Brown charges
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DURHAM -- The N.C. State Bar has set a summer hearing schedule on sexual-harassment charges against former Durham public defender Bob Brown, whose fate will rest partly with the man who presided over Mike Nifong's downfall as district attorney following the Duke lacrosse scandal. |
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CRIME LOG
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Woman shot washing car
Man, 49, held on gun charges
Teen accused of sex offense |
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LOCAL BRIEFS
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Two lanes of U.S. 501 closing
Historic home tour is Saturday
Animal walk coming to Duke
Charity car show to be held
Safe boating class offered
War historian to give lecture |
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May 9
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CRIME LOG
Autopsy: Slain teen shot 5 times
2 charged in $90K credit card spree
Officers seize $1.3M in heroin
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Rabies case confirmed in cat
Animal Control has confirmed a case of rabies in a cat in the Mountainview Drive area of Durham, according to a news release from Assistant County Manager Deborah Craig-Ray.
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Atwater's service knows no bounds
The phone rang several times during an interview with Ann Atwater at her Durham home earlier this week.
The activist known for her work in helping folks said she gets seven or eight calls a day from people trying to find a place to live.
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Spousal murder suspect hospitalized
DURHAM -- Hospitalization rather than imprisonment is the immediate prospect for an 85-year-old murder suspect who reportedly claimed he shot his wife on New Year's Eve because she was practicing voodoo and had cast a spell on him.
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Election over? Not quite: Still counting
DURHAM -- County elections officials by Friday afternoon had worked through just a little over half of the roughly 2,600 so-called "provisional" ballots that in theory could affect the outcome of this week's vote for county commissioner.
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Housing market slides get worse
DURHAM -- Declines in the Triangle's housing market have accelerated in the first three months of 2008, and in one county nearly tripled from the previous year, according to new statistics released this week by Market Opportunity Research Enterprises.
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Duke graduation to be held Sunday
Duke University will award more than 4,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees during its annual commencement ceremony Sunday morning at Wallace Wade Stadium.
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