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School board gives warm welcome to Bordley
DURHAM -- Durham school board members are excited to have Tuesday's primary runoff winner, Leigh Bordley, as their newest colleague. Chairwoman Minnie Forte-Brown said the board would have been excited to welcome either of Tuesday's runoff participants, Bordley or losing candidate Johnathan Alston.

Bordley wins school board seat in runoff
DURHAM -- Chirp. One could almost imagine the sound of crickets chirping at local voting precincts Tuesday. The low voter turn-out was such a contrast compared to the May election, but the five percent of voters who did show up overwhelmingly picked Leigh Bordley as the next Durham Public Schools Board of Education member.


Durham County Board of Elections	Orange County Board of Elections
Person County Board of Elections	Granville County Board of Elections
Chatham County Board of Elections	North Carolina Board of Elections
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•	Yuhasz wins county board District 2 seat
	The final decision in Orange County's District 2 took a little longer, but in the end it was the same the second time around.

•	Durham school seat on ballot
	The Durham Public Schools Board of Education candidates in today's election are not only competing against each other, but also the potential for low voter turnout.

•	Lawson: Reforms needed in health care
	Republican fourth district congressional candidate B.J. Lawson has a physician friend in Cary who's leaving private practice because the health insurance structure makes it impossible for him to cover his office overhead if he spends more than 15 minutes with a patient.

•	Runoff election to decide commissioner's race
	It's not over till it's over. The results from today's runoff election should settle the ongoing fight for the District 2 seat on the Orange County commission and the race for the statewide commissioner of labor post.

•	School board candidates make last pitches
	DURHAM -- The two candidates for the county's runoff election spent the weekend giving their campaigns a final push. Jonathan Alston and Leigh Bordley are vying for a seat on the Durham Public Schools Board of Education.

•	Board of Elections upholds primary results
	DURHAM -- The county Board of Elections upheld the results of this month's primary elections Tuesday morning when it officially certified the results.

•	Democratic unity urged
	U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to look at the numbers and comprehend that she has no chance of defeating Barack Obama for the right to challenge presumptive Republican nominee John McCain this fall.

•	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.

•	Incumbents, two others top county panel vote
	DURHAM -- Democratic primary voters chose something old, something new and something in between to comprise the next edition of the county Board of Commissioners.

•	Voters express strong opinions for president, but not other races
	DURHAM — The Democratic presidential race monopolized the spotlight in Tuesday’s primary elections, overshadowing other races and leaving many voters flummoxed about the different candidates vying for local and statewide offices.

•	Durham likely taps first black, female DA
	DURHAM -- With several major endorsements filling her campaign sails, Tracey Cline was the top vote-getter in Tuesday's Democratic primary election for district attorney -- even though opponents had verbally tarred and feathered her for an alleged role in the Duke lacrosse scandal.

•	School board seat likely to be decided by runoff
	DURHAM -- Jonathan Alston rode an endorsement from the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People and Tuesday's massive voter turnout to a surprise first-place finish for the at-large seat on the Durham school board.

•	Kost beats Barnes in Chatham commission race
	PITTSBORO — There will be at least one new face on the Chatham County Board of Commissioners when November rolls around.

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County commission will gain one new face

CHAPEL HILL -- There will be at least one new face on the soon-to-be-expanded Orange County Board of Commissioners. Longtime Hillsborough resident Steve Yuhasz, a surveyor and an attorney, took the Democratic nomination for the seat in District 2 after winning more than 37 percent of the votes in final but unofficial results Tuesday. He bested candidates Leo Allison, Tommy McNeill and Luther Brooks for the nomination and since no Republicans filed for the seat, he will take office after the November general election.

•	Vernon, Gerding to face off in November district court contest
	CHAPEL HILL -- Page Vernon, a Chatham County attorney, and Glenn Gerding, a Chapel Hill lawyer, will face each other in November for a seat on the district court bench in local District 15-B.

•	Kinnaird wins N.C. Senate contest
	CHAPEL HILL -- Longtime Orange County Commissioner Moses Carey could not overcome the strength of incumbent Ellie Kinnaird in the Democratic primary for state senator for Orange and Person counties.

•	Land transfer tax goes down in flames
	CHAPEL HILL -- Orange County voters spoke loud and clear on the proposed land transfer tax referendum Tuesday -- they shot it down by an overwhelming 2 to 1 margin.

•	Newcomers, veteran win school board seats
	CHAPEL HILL -- The only incumbent in the race lost while two newcomers and one longtime office-holder gained seats on the Orange County school board Tuesday.

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