Permits to buy guns shot up 47 percent in Durham in the days after the massacre in Newtown, Conn., and weapons sales are following suit.
Officers with the Carrboro Police Department caught a man in the woods near Fidelity Street Friday and charged him with attempted first-degree rape.
The week that started out with spring-like temperatures is likely to end up with a white coating.
Eligio Peña Jr., the 32-year-old son of the founder of the Compare Foods Supermarkets franchise and the manager of the store on Avondale Drive in Durham, said a grocery store is defined not justy by the products that it has.
It’s also defined by the products it doesn’t have, Peña said. And he defined Compare Foods, which is now a franchise operation that started as a store in New York in 1989, as “regular grocery stores” that have a heavy ethnic food influence
County officials worked out a deal Monday that will allow County Commissioners Fred Foster and Ellen Reckhow to both serve on the Triangle Transit board.
Duke University officials have begun rolling out a program that would supply $10,000 loans to at least 10 employees interested in buying a house in the city’s Southside redevelopment.
As gun sales increase in Durham, gun thefts, too, are on the rise, according to police reports.
A study group of the North Carolina Mining and Energy Commission is scheduled to meet Wednesday in Sanford to examine local governments’ regulation of oil and gas exploration and development in North Carolina.
Heather Pendergrass always wanted to be Ms. Frizzle aboard the Magic School Bus. Now, thanks to a three-dimensional projector in her classroom at the Southern School of Energy and Sustainability, Pendergrass gets her wish.
If Sarah Dessen had her way, every household would come equipped with “Goodnight Moon.” But not every home has a copy of the children’s classic ready-for-bed story, or “Make Way for Ducklings” or the Madeline books, Dessen understands. That’s why the Chapel Hill writer of young adult novels is such a big supporter of Book Harvest.
The 11 candidates vying to replace Penny Rich on the Town Council all put their best foot forward Monday, hoping to be the one the council chooses next week to serve the remainder of Rich’s term.
County Commissioners have given the Durham Public Schools permission to channel $31.6 million in bonds previously reserved for a new high school into a passel of repair efforts at the district’s other schools.
Three former Duke University lacrosse players say they’re going to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower-court ruling that tossed out most of their civil-rights lawsuit against the city.
A bicyclist was hurt about 7:05 a.m. Monday when he was hit by a vehicle near Structure House Drive at Pickett Road, police said.
The buses are just about filled and ready to roll to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President Barack Obama Jan. 21