Dave Wilkinson, head coach of the North Carolina Thunder softball team, Friday remembered Kacie Chamberlain as a talented pitcher with a bright future.
He’d had big plans for her.
Work on the long-awaited widening of a section of Smith Level Road in Carrboro is scheduled to begin Monday.
Video sweepstakes cafes in Durham closed this week as a law went into effect outlawing them as gambling operations.
Some people were happy to see the businesses shut down – as least temporarily – but not everyone was.
After posting surveillance photographs of three men suspected in a New Year’s shooting in downtown Chapel Hill, police have arrested the man they believe pulled the trigger.
Incoming Gov. Pat McCrory’s transportation secretary is a familiar face to local officials, but a mysterious one on the issue they most care about.
Former Durham Mayor Wib Gulley will step down as general counsel of Triangle Transit sometime this summer, opting to retire now that the agency has local funding lined up for a series of service expansions.
Three former Duke University men’s lacrosse players want the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overrule a panel decision so they can resurrect an obstruction-of-justice claim against Durham police.
A fire that damaged a popular downtown restaurant last month started accidentally, a Durham fire investigator said Thursday. Meanwhile, the restaurant’s owner, Jennings Brody, said she hopes to reopen the business between Feb. 4 and 6.
A 23-year-old former Durham resident was killed Friday night in a head-on collision on Erwin Road.
Mario Delmonico Giovanni Boni, 23, died on impact when the Honda he was driving crossed the centerline and hit another Honda head-on, said N.C. Trooper D.L. Metts.
Davidson Avenue and four neighboring streets’ residents can expect to see firefighters traveling door to door starting at 1 p.m. today, carrying out the department’s Alarm for Life program.
Alarm for Life makes smoke alarms and batteries available to city residents who can’t provide alarms on their own. It also provides free installation services.
Gun shots rang out from a window on the third floor of the Annie Day Shepard Residence Hall on the N.C. Central campus. Shadowy figures behind the window shouted, “Get back, get the hell back.”
In recent years, Durham Public Schools vowed to cut back on the number of tests used to assess their students.
But mandates from North Carolina’s state government make that a tough promise to keep.
Police charged a Chatham County woman with fraud and exploiting the disabled or elderly Wednesday after she allegedly tricked an elderly woman into giving her money twice.
Two early-morning fires damaged houses in western and eastern Durham Thursday, displacing the occupants but leaving them uninjured.