Demonstrators stop traffic in downtown Durham to protest jail deaths
Protesters took to the downtown streets Tuesday night, Nov. 8, 2017 seeking to raise awareness and spur action to prevent more deaths at the Durham County jail, they said. About 30 protesters gathered in front of the Durham County jail Tuesday aro
Congress and state regulators having cleared the way, surgeons at Duke University recently performed North Carolina's first transplant of an organ from an HIV-positive donor into an HIV-positive recipient.
Iraq War veteran Jules Harris reads a poem he wrote with his judo instructor and sensei, veteran Chester Evans. Writing is one of the alternative therapies that Veterans Affairs is offering.
Denise Wiggins, a custodial supervisor at Hillside High School employed by Premiere, a subcontractor of SSC Service Solutions, the outsourced cleaning contractor for Durham Public Schools, celebrates decision by school board Thursday, March 8, 2018.
VIDEO: Volunteers from the Durham Police Department dropped off 120 tiny red hats to Duke, which officers, staff and other volunteers knitted and crocheted over several months. The hats are a an American Heart Association campaigned, called 'Littl
Members of the Congregation of Beth El Synagogue in Durham carry the Torah along West Trinity Avenue on Sunday, Jan., 14, 2018, en route to Trinity Presbyterian Church. Beth El Synagogue, 1004 Watts St., is about to undergo renovations, and Trinit
More than 50 people spent the weekend of Jan. 12-14 playing Scrabble at Duke University Hospital to benefit the Duke Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Family Support Program.
In the years that African-American historian John Hope Franklin taught in North Carolina, there was a KKK sign greeting visitors to the state. Now a section of Interstate 85 in North Carolina is named for Franklin.
Kelli Egnaczak, jail mental health supervisor with the Durham County Criminal Justice Resource Center, explains the advantages of consistent staff in the jail's mental health pod on Nov. 9, 2017. The mental health pod opened Oct. 2, 2017.
Kelli Egnaczak, jail mental health supervisor with the Durham County Criminal Justice Resource Center, explains the advantages of consistent staff in the jail's mental health pod on Nov. 9, 2017. The mental health pod opened Oct. 2, 2017.
The notorious 11'8" railroad bridge on Gregson Street in Durham claimed another victim Thursday, the second in two weeks. This despite highly visible warning lights and signs. Go to 11foot8.com for more video from the bridge.
