This weekend is probably the reason why so many moved down here from the frigid north.
Jay Coman delivered a practice-ending inspiration to a couple dozen sweat-soaked, chest-heaving wrestlers who had just finished an intensive two-hour training session with the Cardiac Kids wrestling club.
The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded a $4.8 million contract to Carolina Sunrock LLC of Raleigh to improve 21.9 miles of Durham County roads.
Users of the City of Durham’s Old North Durham Park should take note that construction is set to begin next month. Then work will close the park until August and impact vehicle traffic around the park t 310 W. Geer St.
A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is mulling Duke University Health System’s request that an insurance company ante up $6 million to cover claims stemming from a surgery sterilization mix-up.
A Rougemont woman died Wednesday when the car she was driving crossed the centerline on Guess Road and crashed head-on into another car, the N.C. State Highway Patrol said.
Three others, including two 4-year-old cousins, were hurt.
A UNC system committee developing the next five-year strategic plan for the 17-campus university is aiming high.
The UNC Advisory Committee on Strategic Direction is set to recommend setting a state degree attainment goal of 32 percent for residents age 25 to 64 by 2018.
A Durham police officer and his K9 (police dog) were injured Tuesday night in a hit-and-run traffic accident on Holloway Street in East Durham, and a man was charged in connection with the accident.
A man who had a habit of robbing pizza delivery men was taken down after he robbed a Chinese food deliveryman and hid the evidence under his bed.
County Commissioners appear likely to give Durham Regional Hospital’s leaders permission to change the county owned facility’s name to Duke Regional Hospital.
The move is coming at the request of hospital board members who say they fear losing patients long-term as Durham residents increasingly identify Duke as the county’s leading health care provider.
The search for a new chancellor at N.C. Central University is entering its final stages.
The university’s chancellor search committee meets today for closed-session interviews with “the final four or five candidates” for the post, said committee chair Harold Epps. The committee members are bringing in the candidates for a second series of interviews as they attempt to narrow the field to three finalists.
Plans to convert downtown’s former Mutual Community Savings Bank into a boutique hotel cleared another hurdle this week, receiving an OK from Durham’s Historic Preservation Commission.
If you are out and about the night of April 23 and someone comes up and gives you a copy of Tina Fey’s book “Bossypants,” Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451,” or Sandra Cisneros’ novel “The House on Mango Street,” do not be alarmed.
Greensboro police say a woman shot and killed her son and injured her daughter and boyfriend before killing herself Monday.
A judge has sealed for another 45 days the search warrants and the 911 calls associated with the death of Faith Hedgepeth.