For a change this season, a top ACC game between two ranked teams does not involve Duke and North Carolina.
Police find match to weapon in homicide
Rather than building their own crime lab, local officials increasingly see the solution to evidence-testing backlogs as paying the state each year to hire technicians to work only on Durham cases.
Boosting the percentage of residents with bachelor’s degrees or higher to 32 percent won’t be easy, but UNC system leaders weighing the matter emerged from a week of meetings confident that the five-year goal is achievable.
CrimeStoppers is offering a reward for information leading to an arrest or arrests in a Jan. 5 armed robbery at Southside Tobacco, 1111 S. Roxboro St.
Police on Friday identified a teen who was gunned down Wednesday in the parking lot of a convenience store.
City Council members Cora Cole-McFadden and Steve Schewel want two would-be city contractors to explain why just one of the 80 people they have on staff is black.
Opponents of a south Durham cell-phone tower aren’t happy that an impending revision of the city and county land-use ordinance might give Durham’s planning director the final say over many such projects.
The Durham Public Schools Board of Education Thursday sought common ground with charter schools that in the past have been a point of contention.
But it’s not a united front just yet.
UNC system officials rolled out a draft of a system-wide strategic plan Thursday for members of the UNC Board of Governors who generally gave it a thumbs up.
First lady Ann McCrory and the wives of some of the state’s top legislative leaders passed out plates and food for a meal at the Durham Rescue Mission’s Good Samaritan Inn on Thursday as part of the week’s inaugural activities.
A man died after he was shot repeatedly about midnight Thursday outside a convenience store on University Drive, and police are seeking the shooter or shooters.
Registration is open for the Durham Police Department’s 2013 Neighborhood and Community Watch Workshop. The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Holton Career and Resource Center.